Other Crap

Secret Pentagon report says that massive climate changes could trigger global anarchy. This is not from Weekly World News, but from The Guardian/Observer. Given that these people are notoriously gullible and have been known to interpret information selectively (The Guardian fell for the famous Presidential I.Q. hoax from Linky and Dinky), I think I'll wait to see the actual document before I buy in. The Observer claims to have the document, but does not make it available, which gets my antennae out immediately. My guess is that they failed to mention the word "if" in referring to a report which gamed out various possibilities and their possible effects. Again, this is just my guess, but the observation that "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters" was probably preceded by a phrase like "In the highly unlikely worst-case scenario, ... ".