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Apocalypse now.

Publication: Harper's Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Apocalypse now.(Forecast)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
From an October 2003 Pentagon report entitled "An Abrupt Climate-Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security." In March 2001 the Bush Administration refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which seeks to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. The United States, Russia, and Australia are currently the only industrialized nations that are not parties to the convention.

Past examples of abrupt climate-change suggest that it is prudent to consider an abrupt climate-change scenario, especially because there appears to be general agreement in the scientific community that an extreme case like the one cited below is not implausible. Rather than pointing to decades or even centuries of gradual warming, recent evidence suggests the possibility that a more dire climate...

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