Scientific American: Dave Belote was sleeping on his cot at Camp Victory in Iraq early one morning in 2004 when he awoke to the sound of deadly mortar rounds exploding on base a scant 50 yards away. Suddenly, it clicked: "It would be a really good thing to stop paying people to shoot at us," he thought.
"Those mortar shells we paid for indirectly, through our addiction to oil," the retired Air Force colonel told ClimateWire.
"A lot of these terrorist organizations, al-Qaida and others, big chunks of their funding...