Climate change likely to trigger global destabilization, report says.

LA Times, June 26, 2008 - “Global warming is likely to have a series of destabilizing effects around the world, causing humanitarian crises as well as surges in ethnic violence and illegal immigration, according to an assessment released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence agencies.  Rising temperatures could weaken already fragile regimes around the world and create a new set of national security challenges for the United States over the next two decades, the report warns. ‘Climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure’ during that period, said Thomas Fingar, chairman of the National Intelligence Council, in remarks prepared for a joint congressional hearing.  Read more.