Foreign Policy Blogs

Links From Around the Web

1.  The Asia Society’s incredible video documenting the mass loss of the world’s largest glaciers.  Check out the “Then & Now” comparisons for some perspective.

2.  Thomas Friedman takes on the global warming skeptics:

“Not only are we adding 2.5 billion people by 2050, but many more will live like “Americans” — with American-size homes, American-size cars, eating American-size Big Macs…the country that invents and deploys the most [energy technology] will enjoy the most economic security, energy security, national security, innovative companies and global respect.”

3.  George Will, one of those skeptics, says we’re exaggerating the issue of resource scarcity, as we always have

4.  A huge file of private emails and unpublished documents, from leading climate scientists, was obtained by a hacker and uploaded all over the internet.  Certain email messages make reference to a plan to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.  Hysteria ensues.