8.14.2013

All right! Go war!

Defense Contractor: Climate Change Could Create "Business Opportunities" | Mother Jones

Of all the business opportunities presented by global warming, Raytheon Company may have found one of the most alarming. The Massachusetts-based defense contractor—which makes everything from communications systems to Tomahawk missiles—thinks that future "security concerns" caused by climate change could mean expanded sales of its military products.

Also for the warm (but not too warm) and fuzzy crowd:

Raytheon, it should be noted, isn't exactly gunning for catastrophic global warming. Quite the opposite, in fact: In February, the company received a "Climate Leadership Award" from the Environmental Protection Agency for publicly reporting and aggressively reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.…

Something for everybody! We are thrilled.

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