"It’s a peculiar thing that as the threat of global terrorism reaches a crescendo, so apparently does the threat of global warming - at least that’s what some would have us believe.
Tough language is borrowed from the war on terror and applied to the war on weather. “I really consider this a national security issue,” says celebrity activist and “An Inconvenient Truth” producer Laurie David. “Truth” star Al Gore calls global warming a “planetary emergency.” Bill Clinton’s first worry is climate change: “It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0714/p20s01-ussc.html
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