Global Warming, coming soon to a theater near you. Posted by Rosa Brooks

Speaking of grim reports that the Administration probably won't listen to, I urge everyone to curl up for a few minutes with the report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Remember all those horrifying sci-fi movies about the end of the world as we know it? Or maybe you once read The Drowned World, a 1962 novel by J.G. Ballard? If you can get through the scientific bureaucratese, this report will send similar chills down your spine (and you might as well cherish those chills, because chills are going to be few and far between in the warmer global future coming inexorably our way). But the Bush Administration is still resisting mandatory emissions caps, and proposing instead that we combat global warming by putting giant mirrors into outer space.

In addition to the environmental and economic imoact of global warming, we should all be getting nervous about the national security implications of climate change. For one take on that, this 2004 Pentagon-commissioned report is worth a look.

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Not to worry, Barbara Boxer is now in the environmental driver's seat. She's smart, she's tough and she's funny (when outgoing chairman Inhofe called global warming a hoax she said "I'll put you down as skeptical".) But still, I wouldn't buy any property in Florida or Louisiana without becoming scuba qualified, and don't expect free water if you live in the western US. Or much water.

Incidentally, regarding the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld, when speaking of the stakes in Iraq, always mentioned water along with oil. The oil wars will become the water wars as time goes on, which we hope it will, given the present propensity for war.

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