The science behind Global Warming is irrefutable which I suppose explains why it comes as no surprise that the Bush Administration hid 1000s of satellite images that clearly show the tragic environmental impact. No WMDs, Global Warming is real, you get the picture?
The Obama administration has released those photos which can be viewed here, you be the judge.
Environmental impact aside the social and political impact of Global Warming is already changing the face of our world and impacting its citizens, no matter how resistance the religious and uninterested right-wing of American politics is.
The fifth annual Failed States Index—a collaboration between The Fund for Peace, an independent research organization, and Foreign Policy Magazine details the specific impact in their last section, appropriately titled The Last Straw. It is worth a complete read.
In 2007, the London-based NGO International Alert compiled a list of countries with a high risk of armed conflict due to climate change. They cited no fewer than 46 countries, or one in every four, including some of the world's most gravely unstable countries, such as Somalia, Nigeria, Iran, Colombia, Bolivia, Israel, Indonesia, Bosnia, Algeria, and Peru. Already, climate change might be behind the deep drought that contributed to the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
