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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (2873)5/31/2004 8:36:08 PM
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Wouldn't it be unfortunately ironic if Bush's non-support of the Kyoto Agreement led to the global warming that enables terrorists to attack the United States from the North:

"The talk of global warming is a double-edged sword for skeptics who don't believe it, but are nevertheless intrigued by the possibilities a warmer arctic may bring. One possibility is an open water shortcut over the top of the world that may already be emerging.

The normally ice-choked bay will be part of a summer-long ice-free Northwest passage.

"It cuts thousands and thousands of miles off the sea route between Europe and the Orient, and would be irresistible to commerce," says Dennis Conlon, with the Office of Naval Research. Conlon wrote a recently declassified document exploring the military implications of a watery arctic.

Conlon says an open Northwest passage makes America open to new threats.

"We'd have to counter terrorism, we'd have to protect assets, we'd have to perform search and rescue. Every function the Navy performs, we'd have to perform in the Arctic." "

"(Also) less ice means more areas of warm water. And pockets of warm air that are helping to change the global temperatures and wind patterns. As a result, one new study suggests that desperately needed storms will be steered away from the drought-plagued American west, drying it by as much as 30 percent more, and increasing the wildfire danger."

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