Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 13, 2008
by Dick Nelson
"Canadians shouldn't feel comfortable now that a British consulting firm has cooked up a ranking that places their nation as the least vulnerable among 168 nations to the impacts of climate change ("Why Canada is the best haven from effects of global warming," Wednesday's P-I). Or for that matter, neither should Americans and the denizens of other rich nations at the top of the list.
One of the realities of global climate change is that no country will be immune from the spillover effects: population displacement and mass migration. That fact was made clear by a U.N. Human Development Program report...
This warning was echoed in a recent statement by Thomas Fingar, deputy director of U.S. national intelligence, to a joint meeting of House committees on global warming and intelligence."
To read complete letter go to: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/370472_ltrs13.html
Sources:
Article on ranking: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/370009_canada09.html
UN Development Program Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_summary_english.pdf
Fingar statement: http://media.npr.org/documents/2008/jun/warming_intelligence.pdf