The planet is heating at an alarming rate, a NASA scientist told me in 1979. Soon after, DOD predicted mass migrations as a result of climate crises. So WTF?

They knew mass migrations were coming. Back in the '80s and '90s the DOD issued papers warning that increased heat would destroy crops and food supplies, and entire populations would have to migrate, which might "cause global security problems" I remember that specific warning. I read those papers, and you used to be able to find them by doing a Google search; but recently when I tried again, a whole lot of other stuff came up instead.

"Illegal immigration" is happening all over the world now, report several international news sites. Humans could have been preparing for it since the '80s and '90s. Instead globally, apparently, the global oil industry controlled the message for decades, and everyone looked the other way.

Now the damage of decades of over producing CO2 is driving populations to have no choice but to move, as their home regions become uninhabitable, and the migrants aren’t the ones pouring pollution into the air. Our leaders have allowed this situation to develop and are now blaming the victims.

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I don't know if the Air Force showing up and changing NASA from an open source civilian agency to whatever it is now had anything to do with the silencing of scientists about global warming, I'm just pointing out that both things happened at around the same time.

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I first heard about global warming in 1979 when I worked in the Newsroom at NASA Houston and I was interviewing a scientist about discoveries he'd made concerning Earth's North and South Poles. As I was packing up to leave, he said, "You know what's a real story. The ice caps are melting." I stopped and listened. "I go to both of them every year and it's noticeable and alarming. The polar ice caps are melting. We're pouring so much CO2 into the atmosphere that everything is overheating and it's alarming. If the ice caps melt, it will disrupt the entire ecology of the planet, every balance will become unbalanced…."

I don't remember his exact words but that was his message.

Weeks later I saw him in the cafeteria where other people were nearby and asked him, can you tell me more? I'd like to follow up and maybe do a story about what you said, about the icecaps melting-

He FREAKED

"I don't know what you're talking about," he said turning red and turning away from me angry, looking scared.

Then the Air Force showed up and became employees at LBJ Space Center.  With no warning, guys in uniform were in the cafeteria, at chili cookoffs, in offices down the hall. All of us suddenly had to get a higher security clearance than we'd needed when I was hired, and I knew I wouldn't pass because- well read City of Angels Blog 3 12 and 15 for explanation.

I don't know if the Air Force showing up and changing NASA from an open source civilian agency to whatever it is now had anything to do with the silencing of scientists about global warming, I'm just pointing out that both things happened at around the same time.

The planet is heating at an alarming rate, a NASA geologist told me in 1979. Then the Air Force showed up and he went silent.

DOD papers warned that climate change would cause mass migration in the 80s and 90s. Our "leaders" chose to ignore both climate change and its effect on populations.

Now we all get to learn how devastating it can get when the planet gets too hot. Oh boy.

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I learned in 2014 that humans have passed the "tipping point" for CO2 release, we went beyond the point where we could do anything about it, according to climate scientists who'd been trying to get governments to take action for decades but were unable to succeed. Of course there were optimists, but I believed the tipping point thesis, as I pay a lot of attention.

That's why I moved to Tahoe. We have clean water here, lots of it, relatively cool weather, and, so far, a manageable amount of population. I think that's what people need to do. If it's getting too hot and dangerous where you live, better pack up and move to a more habitable climate.

At some point, you too may have to migrate to survive.  

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By Kay Ebeling

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