File under: Root Causes of Terrorism

Only a terrorist truly knows from where his motivation comes, but that does not stop any number of people from speculating on the "root causes" and such. Here's a reason that not even Al Gore himself considered.

Climate change seen fanning conflict and terrorism

LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming could exacerbate the world's rich-poor divide and help to radicalize populations and fan terrorism in the countries worst affected, security and climate experts said on Wednesday.

"We have to reckon with the human propensity for violence," Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the United Nations told a London conference on "Climate Change: the Global Security Impact."

"Violence within and between communities and between nation states, we must accept, could possibly increase, because the precedents are all around."

He cited Rwanda and Sudan's Darfur region as two examples where drought and overpopulation, relative to scarce resources, had helped to fuel deadly conflicts.

BIN LADEN ON CLIMATE CHANGE

John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain's Met Office, noted al Qaeda had already listed environmental damage among its litany of grievances against the United States.

"You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people."

So there you have it--conclusive proof of the link between the Environmental Movement and Al Qaeda. If only we would have signed the Kyoto Protocol, the World Trade Center would still be standing.

Can Birkenstock wearing, pachouli-scented, tree-hugging suicide bombers be far behind?