Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers

[GliderGuider]

Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers

WASHINGTON — The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.

The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. The report also found that rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.

In addition, the report predicted that an increase in catastrophic weather events around the world will create more demand for American troops, even as flooding and extreme weather events at home could damage naval ports and military bases.

In an interview, Secretary of State John Kerry signaled that the report’s findings would influence American foreign policy.

“Tribes are killing each other over water today,” Mr. Kerry said. “Think of what happens if you have massive dislocation, or the drying up of the waters of the Nile, of the major rivers in China and India. The intelligence community takes it seriously, and it’s translated into action.”

[Phlem]

1. Straight from the department "No fucking kidding!"

[caraher]

2. And of course, the worst part is that climate change threatens the US military

Forget extinctions, etc. - climate change might degrade military readiness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUaT4hgu2ybg0hJaLTXgT__A&v=WsWlMukvp0k

[hatrack]

3. Please, guys, tell us something we haven't known for 20 years already

I mean, it's not that you're wrong, Secretary Obvious, and a thousand times better you than Creature From Planet Rubio helping handle climate policy, but . . . .

[Duppers]

4. exactly!

Wonder where all those GCC deniers here on DU are now?


Oh and it's better to let people die of thirst and starve than to ask anyone to limit populations, you know.

[northoftheborder]

5. Are military leaders the answer?

Could the US military make a dent in the thick skulls of our so called "leaders" sunk up to their necks in the thick mud of ignorance and denial by yelling and scaring them to act????????

[GliderGuider]

6. It depends on how thoroughly purchased our political leaders are.

I'm not optimistic.

[Nihil]

7. And, in addition to what GG just said, ...

... do you *really* want our "leaders" to listen to the people whose purpose in life
is to kill & destroy "the other" for the sake of "us"?

The people who have already persuaded "the leaders" to spend more money on
death & destruction (and deliberately deploying it) than health, education and
social security?

The people who are already barking at other nations for any perceived (or created)
slight that is no threat to their own nation?

That sort of "answer" we can do without.