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 Center for Naval Analyses 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 would create more demand for American troops, even as flooding and extreme weather events at home could damage naval ports and military bases.

The report on Tuesday follows a recent string of scientific studies that warn that the effects of climate change are already occurring and that flooding, droughts, extreme storms, food and water shortages and damage to infrastructure will occur in the near future.

In March, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the agency’s main public document describing the current doctrine of the United States military, drew a direct link between the effects of global warming — like rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns — and terrorism.

“These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad, such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence,” the review said.

A scientific report released this week found that global warming has contributed to the melting of a large section of a West Antarctica ice sheet, which could lead to a rise in sea level of 10 feet or more.

Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a vocal skeptic of the established science that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming, scoffed at the idea that climate change is linked to national security threats.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/u...by-military-researchers.html?hpw&rref=science

 

< leading government-funded military research organization concluded. >

LOL. Our government wastes more $$$$ than you will ever know on military research. As was stated in another thread I experienced the waste for 2 years as a contractor. Yeah, yeah ... let's embrace their conclusions ... after all their motivation is to get yet MORE $$$$$ for future 'research'. Last, we have 2 neighbors .. both retired Navy, in early to mid 50's ... now contractors. They claim they are grossly overpaid for what they do. Yet they head out on boondoggles to Hawaii for 'conferences. etc.

 

Excuse me while I retch. The 2014 QDR is a politically correct farce that shows the extent to which the military's been neutered and provides a platform for whining about the sequester. The number of times each of the following came up in a keyword search tells you all you need to know.

Islam 0
Islamic 0
Muslim 0
equality 1
jihad 1
gay 2
sexual assault 3
Syria 5
al Qa’ida 7
China 8
climate change 8
Iran 10
Russia/Russian 10
sequester & sequestration 63

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...Qh6470DFh318VlYJfnOAhxQ&bvm=bv.66699033,d.cWc

 

Yes I'm sure all these reports and studies are wrong, because a few ignorant right wingers say so.

You guys would make good ostriches.

 

Climate change is mentioned more times than al-Qaeda in the Quadrennial Defense Review and we're ostriches?

 

So which Koch bros funded propaganda outlet came out with this bullshit critique?

 

And you suffer from the same variation of Tourette's as Harry Reid?

 

So you never answered. Which right wing propaganda site did this come from?



And is it possible that going forward climate change will be more important than a mostly neutered Al Qaeda? Let me answer for you. Yes.

 

The amusing part is that the Koch brothers are only the 59th biggest donors in American politics. Just the six biggest union donors in American politics combined give 15 times more money than the Koch brothers have – and, of course, that money went almost exclusively to Democrats. There are also at least 8 individual rich liberals who give more than the Koch brothers - but somehow the left wing seems to be focused on the Koch brothers as being the root of all evil -- while ignoring the mountain of money provided by liberal wealthy benefactors which perverts American politics.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/7-filthy-rich-liberals-railing-against-the-rich-in-quotes/