“We were trying to learn more about the long-term history of the Chesapeake Bay,” says Debra Willard of the U.S Geological Service. The American scientists had questions about past climate changes and the sediments might hold answers–or at least clues. On board were a dozen American scientists, most of them geologists or geophysicists who were hoping to punch coring tubes down into the bottom of the Bay and bring up sediments buried there before the estuary formed. On June 2, 2003, a French vessel designed for deep-ocean research entered the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary noted for its shallow waters. Ice core indicators show that the Holocene, our current interglacial epoch, began some 11,000 years ago and brought a time of stable temperatures, interrupted by a cool-down 8,200 years ago and later by the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Why was the Pentagon suddenly worried about abrupt climate change? Because there was new evidence it had happened before. It was a speculative effort by defense strategists to dramatize all the security threats the country would face if the climate suddenly shifted. The report was never designed as a scientific prediction. Those implications included rising seas, flooded coastal cities, at least one drowned country, droughts, food shortages, failed states, and fortress states. The title of the Pentagon report was a mouthful: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security. IN OCTOBER 2003, A LITTLE-KNOWN THINK TANK in the Department of Defense quietly released a report warning that climate change could happen suddenly-so suddenly it could pose a major threat to our country's national security. Geological Survey, who analyzed sediment cores from the Chesapeake Bay and found evidence of abrupt climate change during the early evolution of the estuary. Thomas Cronin, a research geologist, collaborated with colleagues at the U.S. that a commercial for HeadOn drew comparisons to Maoist posters, North Korean propaganda, and Hillary Clinton? that in early 2023 Angela Ferrell-Zabala became the first executive director for the US gun control advocacy organization Moms Demand Action? that the current Salvation Army Headquarters replaced an earlier Manhattan building that resembled a "medieval citadel"? that Joseph O'Callaghan died at sea while carrying papers appointing him provincial superior? that when Oakdale Golf & Country Club was founded, the Toronto Star ran a story with the headline "Hebrews buy farm build golf course"? that to gain weight to increase his chance of being a college football offensive lineman, John Ojukwu went on a diet that included consuming a gallon of milk a day and sometimes whole pizzas? that the sculpture Antimonumento +72 (pictured), which commemorates a massacre that took place thirteen years ago today, was also the site of a memorial for a March 2023 migrant center fire? that in the 1950s, links to sexually transmitted infection were dropped from the title of several skin-disease journals, including the Archives of Dermatological Research ? that Sue Marx won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, about a romance between two octogenarians? that in 1875, Queen Victoria paid £250 to have a north London graveyard for Lutherans maintained in perpetuity? that John Sterling, Anthony Harrison and Chuck Compton were all signed by the Green Bay Packers as replacement players because of a players' strike during the 1987 NFL season? that favissae were underground pits dedicated to the disposal of votive offerings that were no longer in use? that Albert Bahhuth fled the Lebanese Civil War and owned a Subway franchise before being named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles? that the men's 100 metres event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships was run in heavy rain? that Ain't Burned All the Bright (author pictured) consists of only three sentences across 384 mostly illustrated pages? Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright
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