PENTAGON/GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE

So more than one element of this story was "hot air."

It wasn't a leaked, secret report. Rather, it was a Pentagon-sanctioned study conducted by independent scientists opining on, among other things, a "worst-case scenario" about global warming. And that makes it politically intriguing, but hardly has the salty taste of a "leak."

Thanks to my friend Omri Ceren for finding this information. He found details here. Apparently, the Observer's bogus leak story fooled most of the news organizations in Australia: SBS, ABC, AFP and the Australian (along with my usually reliable source, Agence France Presse).

The actual report is here. Its conclusions are, in fact, sobering, even if they are a "worst-case scenario," and there's little doubt in my mind that the Pentagon is planning its share of climate-war scenarios. The political intrigue has become more nuanced, but both the bogus leak angle and the way climate science has been politicized serve as object lessons for radicals that are hardly mutually exclusive.