U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects. https://climateandsecurity.files.wo...-change-for-us-army_army-war-college_2019.pdf https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...e-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes. The senior US government officials who wrote the report are from several key agencies including the Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA. The study called on the Pentagon to urgently prepare for the possibility that domestic power, water, and food systems might collapse due to the impacts of climate change as we near mid-century. The report was commissioned by General Mark Milley, Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking military officer in the country (the report also puts him at odds with Trump, who does not take climate change seriously.)
Wow, that .pdf.... 52 pages... that's must read stuff in there. See you guys all want to go back and forward about whether climate change is man made or not... and that's fine, whatever.... I don't know if its man-made or not... maybe its humanity raping the planet, or maybe its just the planet doing what its been doing for a 100 million years... point is.... climate change IS happening. Can we all agree on that? Anyway... I look forward to reading all 52 pages. There's fortunes to be made off this stuff because its not going to happen all at once, and we won't go down without a fight. Might as well follow the money and enjoy what we have in style.... while we still have it. This report deserves its own thread H4. More to follow.
meh...i post reports like these all the time, doubt anyone takes value from them. Buy alternatives if the dems. take back Washington I'd say. Good angle to pump money into climate change using the military budget if they're this receptive.
I guess it helps if it comes from a historically "conservative" branch of the government. Even if it's just regurgitation.
Well that and it wasn't authored by a bunch of dummies with an agenda. I have not read it in its entirety yet, quickly scanned, but it doesn't appear to point a finger, it only addresses future actions that the Army may need to take or is planning to take in response to political directives on carbon emissions. The prognostications put forth appear factual and non-biased. Pretty much it is what it is and this is what we think could happen. Like this: predicts areas in the Southeastern U.S. will see an increase in precipitation of .5-.8 mm/day and an increase in average annual temperatures of 1-3 degrees Celsius by 2050.161 This change will likely allow the proliferation of disease vectors (such as mosquitoes and ticks) over a wider area than they currently inhabit and limit Winter kills of the vectors, resulting in a larger population to spread any diseases. This phenomenon is likely to increase the incidence of diseases such as Zika, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease and many others, some of which may be previously unseen in the U.S. As the largest source of potential capacity and capability to respond to widespread disease outbreaks in the United States, the military should be prepared to execute defense support to civil authority (DSCA) missions of this type To ensure proactive response, the active force, in sup-port of Reserve Component units, should predetermine locations for key logistics nodes throughout the areas 161. “Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report.” International Panel on Climate Change. 2015. http://ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/.most at risk. These nodes will requires APODs, rail links and robust highway systems to speed the deployment of equipment and materials. Appropriate medical facil-ities should be identified capable of providing patient isolation and those areas lacking that capability must be identified. Army assets can fill those capability gaps in more remote areas. Climate change is introducing an increased risk of infectious disease to the U.S. population. It is increasingly not a matter of “if” but of when there will be a large outbreak. The U.S. Army will be called upon to assist in much the same way it was called upon in other disasters. Detailed coordination with local, state and federal agencies in the most high risk regions will hasten response time and minimize risk to mission.
the tinfoil hat side of me also believes this is just a money grab by DOD as the politics shift in Washington. Gimme some of that "green new deal monies!!"
This “report” is several standards of deviations into the nonsense zone. The US military operates in a wide variety of climate extremes from the Arctic to the Equator, from high condensing humidity to dry arid regions, during day and night, at low altitudes to high altitudes, In storms from hurricanes to geomagnetic, and under vibrations or impacts of various frequencies. A few degrees change in climate or a few more pissed off and hungry people are not going to adversely affect US military capability either by budget or mission. Although the US far outspends the rest of the world in military expenditures, as a percentage of GDP, the US current expenditures are way lower than historical highs in both the US and certain Communist counties.
Oh, ok, where'd you get your PHD from and where can I find your peer review of these people's findings?