Military experts: climate change a threat
April 17, 2007 | Posted by Lisa Moore in Policy - General
Lisa Moore is a scientist in the Climate and Air Program.
Bill Chameides is out of the office, but science, policy and news about global warming keep coming in. Yesterday, a group of military experts declared that climate change threatens national security (registration required). Their report [PDF] says:
Climate change can act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world, and it presents significant national security challenges for the United States.... The increasing risks from climate change should be addressed now because they will almost certainly get worse if we delay.
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October 19th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
[...] Climate change also threatens national security. Earlier this year, a group of high-ranking retired U.S. military leaders warned that "Climate change can act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world, and it presents significant national security challenges for the United States." Perhaps this view was in the minds of the committee that honored the IPCC with the Nobel Prize for Peace. [...]