text: Organizations whom we expect to tell the truth keep telling us that "climate change is one of the biggest global security threats of the 21st century." This was a recent statement by "world leaders" like the G7, a group of finance ministers and central bank governors of seven advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. On April 17 they adopted a report about the "threat" put together by think tanks that included the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.