Greenpeace: Climate change increasingly threatens security

[MindMover]

Anyone who thought climate change was something happening far away, to someone else, should think again. According to the world's leading scientists, climate change is an increasing threat to human safety around the world.

In a new report to be published in the end of March by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to conclude that climate change puts lives, cultures and well-being at risk and can fuel forced migration, violence and conflicts. Their detailed report suggests that climate change will increasingly shape national security policies.

Already last month, US Secretary of State John Kerry named climate change as a security threat, calling it "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction".

If that sounds familiar, that's because that phrase was already made famous by former IPCC Co-Chair Sir John Houghton a decade ago. In the context of former US President George Bush and former UK Prime Ministry Tony Blair leading an illegal war against Iraq on the pretense of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, he pointed out that anyone truly worried about weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, should fight climate change.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/03/greenpeace-climate-change-incr-2014328144640118231.html

[LongTomH]

1. Yeah, even the Pentagon agrees!

Pentagon recognizes climate change as a serious national security threat - again.

Try doing a Google search on: Pentagon climate change