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U.S. military and intelligence agencies are increasingly monitoring and preparing for how, when and where the consequences of a warmer planet will collide with national security, requiring the eventual need to deploy American troops to weather-torn lands.
As climate-change arguments continue at home including pundits who assert the scientific consensus on the issue is overblown or concocted current and former Department of Defense officials are mapping future strategies to protect U.S. interests in the aftermath of massive floods, water shortages and famines that are expected to hit and decimate unstable nations.
For DoD, this is a mission reality, not a political debate, said Mark Wright, a Pentagon spokesman. The scientific forecast is for more Arctic ice melt, more sea-level rise, more intense storms, more flooding from storm surge, and more drought.
Those changes shape the future operating environment, help us predict missions we'll have to undertake, and create challenges and constraints on how we operate on our bases, Wright said. We're taking sensible measured steps to mitigate the mission risk posed by climate change.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/climate-change-real-pentagon-sure-thinks-so-n101701
Cirque du So-What
(25,988 posts)They're on the take from special interests. I smell the handiwork of George Soros and Michael Moore
IDemo
(16,926 posts)headed by a panel of extremist Right-wingers who feel any such activity is un-American.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I suppose it's a start, but damn!
pbmus
(12,422 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)You've just heard from NotDr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Ignore them. They're just doomers.