t r u t h o u t - White House Edits E.P.A. Report to Hide Dangers The actual projections about climate change are so devastating that the Bush/short-term thinking folks will of course gloss them over. In reality, within my lifetime (and I am already 50+) much of the southern USA, as in from the middle of Illinois and Indiana south, will become a desert. Why worry about Iraq and such things? Soon we will be worried about things at home. Go watch Mad Max and consider that though that is science fiction, there is no triggering apocalytic event such as an attack with WMD (weapons of mass destruction.) Instead, kind of gradually, things stop working. Global systems of energy and transporation breakdown and that causes a return to a sort of feudalism and regionalism. Oh well, that's just a movie, right?