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So Homeland Security can take a breather. According to a just-released report, some day soon Christian and Muslim alike will be swimming for higher ground, played with like children's toys by Climate Change the Unstoppable.

The report is the brainchild of the Center for Strategic and International Studies,the Center for a New American Security and a bevy of security and climate specialists. it's bottom line;
.Climate change is quickly becoming one of the most daunting national security challenges ever faced by U.S. policy makers.

The report weighs in with some new apocalyptic horsemen, among them the threat of dramatic population migrations, wars over water and natural resources, and a realignment of power among nations. It cites an Oops factor, indicating climate researchers have been blase in underestimating how quickly the earth is changing and ramping up existing problems, from the desertification of Darfur and competition for water in the Middle East to the increasingly more destructive monsoons in Asia which increase the pressure for land.

The report warns the U.S. must brace itself for more weather-driven population migrations, both internally and from across its borders; a explosion in the number of diseases; greater conflict in weak states, especially in Africa where climates will change most drastically; and a reshuffling of global power in line with the availability of natural resources. Read the oil states and Russia flexing even more muscle

Left unchecked, the societal stresses associated with extreme climate change would destabilize virtually every aspect of modern life, said the report, comparing the potential outcome with the Cold War doomsday scenarios of nuclear devastation.

Last April, a a panel of retired top-ranking military officers issued the alarm that global warming was a serious security threat likely to accelerate terrorism and politically instability across the globe..

The report concludes climate change is becoming one of the greatest national security challenges that this or any other generation of policy makers is likely to have to deal with.