22/02/2004

StopEsso has published the full Pentagon report which warns of impending climate chaos as a threat to international security.

The report, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security", commissioned by the Pentagon, looks at the worst case scenario for climate change, outlining a grim future of a freezing Europe, rising sea levels, food shortages and floods.

The Observer talked to one of the report's authors, Doug Randall, who says "'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile."

Other leading scientists's comments to the Observer: Note the continual reference to the oil lobby's influence on the US Government. ExxonMobil is particularly active over the science, through its funding of lobby groups.

Professor John Schellnhuber. , former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research:
- The Pentagon's internal fears should prove the "tipping point" in persuading Bush to accept climatic change.

Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office:
"If the Pentagon is sending out that sort of message, then this is an important document indeed."

Dr Bob Watson, chief scientist for the World Bank and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ousted at the behest of Esso):
"Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. Its hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative.

"If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon."

Jeremy Symonds, former US Environmental Protection Agency: "This administration is ignoring the evidence in order to placate a handful of large energy and oil companies."

Observer article, full report

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