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Old 06-25-2008, 01:38 PM
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Report: Climate change linked to national security

"Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated (by climate change) would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism," said Tom Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for analysis, who testified before a joint House committee hearing Wednesday.

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A big issue for many countries (discussed all the way back into the 90's) is that huge numbers of poor people live in flood-prone areas in SE Asia.

If sea levels start to rise, Australia (and now India and China) stands to get hit with a wave of refugees the likes of which have never been seen before in human history.
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