Climate change a threat to national security?
 

A bit over the top with the scare tactics there...

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...panel_loo.html

Not really. Less resources will lead to increased conflict. There will be a more finite amount of water/food. Probably won't effect North America too much, but it will not be a pretty picture as "more people and less resources" hits regions who are already in a bad way.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/index.html

PD

:doh:

You dont find that a bit alarmist? not to mention far fetched?

That link doesn't mention anything about increased conflict.

I'd think runaway overpopulation would be a far more likely cause of increased conflict than mere climate change.

A 1 meter rise in sea level is pretty extreme when put in relative terms. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but that's a lot of water to get the ocean to rise one meter! One meter is a big deal, I don't know about flood Norfolk. But $100s of billions in damage I think can be safely said.

And check it out, I don't know if it's accurate. But at the very least it's fun to flood cities:
http://flood.firetree.net/

PD

Me too. But combined it's even less pretty.

PD