I spent the fourth pulling together some clips I’d been saving up for weeks.
Climate change is a national security issue above all others, for every nation, and will be for several centuries. That’s if we’re lucky.
General Gordon Sulllivan
Former US Army Chief of Staff
Rear Admiral David Titley
Oceanographer and Navigator of the US Navy
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc0tc0_natl-sec-implications-of-global-cli_news
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=438
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/ams-briefing-climate-and-national-security/
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/us-navy-vice-admiral-climate-change-threat-multiplier.php
http://crazymotion.net/certianty-on-the/w-Bi94rPpPXYjAy.html
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change – Report
http://securityandclimate.cna.org/report/
Climate Change and US Security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502800.html
http://current.com/green/89051378_spies-predict-climate-change-to-spark-war.htm
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/spy-agencies-to-warn-new-president-of-warmings-dangers/
BBC Global Observatory, National Security and Climate Change
Climate change and heavy precipitation events
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overviewmidwest.htm
http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/14/ncar-trenberth-global-warming-extreme-weather-rain-deluge/
http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/26/nashville-katrina-tennessee-superstorm-1000-year-flood/
and extreme heat
http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/24/record-heat-sweeps-dc-nation-world/
James Woolsey, Former CIA director
http://fora.tv/2008/07/02/Climate_and_National_Security_Impacts_on_Foreign_Policy
I really like the term Threat Multiplier. You can take a specific location, say Lake Michigan, warmer temperatures, foster greater algae bloom opportunities, which in turn, warm the water, deplete the oxygen etc. This occurred to me after experiencing the warmest water and highest algae levels I have seen in the last 40 years in Holland MI.
re Lake MIchigan, warmer waters have made the lake hospitable to organisms not previously known here – in one case, a form of toxic algae formerly known to the subtropics.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Centers/HABS/cylindro_factsheet.html
Potential nasty surprises in store.