There was some news this past week about a DoD report warning of massive global climate change within twenty years. The UK paper The Observer was first to report it.

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

It sounds a lot like the doom-and-gloom predictions you’d expect from cult leaders, not the Department of Defense. Still, it makes you wonder either:

(a) what they know that we don’t, or…
(b) what they’re smoking.

I haven’t read the report myself, but I did find it last night. As usual, Cryptome has the goods.

[UPDATE]: Surprise, surprise. The European press has blown this out of proportion. It is just one scenario, not the most likely. The Oakland Tribune has the story on how this threat was exaggerated.