Greenpeace

First of a potential series of comments upon Greenpeace's Report entitled above. (...) "Global warming is a clear and present danger to America’s public health, economy, and environment....The economic cost of global warming to the U.S. economy from just four impacts—hurricane damage, water shortage, energy costs, and real estate losses—are projected to reach $271 billion by 2025." (..) The coming resource wars and conflicts will also up the price of inaction. One reason that the Iraq and Afghanistan-Pakistan wars are now raging, and probable ones in Africa and South America as well, even the Israeli-Palestinian row, is to secure oil and water supplies at the lowest current and future prices. Iraq, at 30 dollars a barrel in 2002, has an estimated 175 trillion dollars of oil waiting to be pumped. Solar and wind will increasingly solve both problems, as the peak fossil fuel decreases in world supply, and increases in world energy demand curves, will insure higher and higher oil, natural gas and other fossil fuel prices as well, so the reports beginning summary, by failing to include war as a global warming-associated cost(for lacking an affordable energy alternative) is an oversight perhaps, since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to former World Bank President Stieglitz (spelling?), has already insured a price tag of over 3 trillion dollars!