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From The Associated Press, 10/28/09:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icbUMbIvuwBo0HLhJ6DeDFF_4WYAD9BKBS283
Turmoil from climate change poses security risks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT (AP)
WASHINGTON —
An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears
as the sea level rises.
Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military
tensions in South Asia.
Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political
turmoil in the Middle East.
U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, viewing these and other
potential impacts of global warming, have concluded if they
materialize it would become ever more likely global alliances will
shift, the need to respond to massive relief efforts will increase and
American forces will become entangled in more regional military
conflicts.
It is a bleak picture of national security that backers of a climate
bill in Congress hope will draw in reluctant Republicans who have
denounced the bill as an energy tax and jobs killer because it would
shift the country away from fossil fuels by limiting carbon dioxide
emissions from power plants and industrial facilities.
At the current increasing rate of global carbon dioxide pollution,
average world temperatures at the end of this century will likely be
about 7 degrees higher than at the end of the 20th century, and seas
would be expected to rise by as much as 2 feet, according to a
consensus of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
The security implications of global warming were center stage
Wednesday at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing,
one of a series of sessions in advance of voting on the climate bill,
possibly as early as next week.
"Our economic, energy and climate change challenges are all
inextricably linked," retired Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn told the
committee.
"If we don't address these challenges in a bold way and timely way,
fragile governments have great potential to become failed states ....a
virile breathing ground for extremism."
"The U.S. military will be called to respond to these threats," added
McGinn, a member of the CNA Military Advisory Board, an influential
think tank on military and security issues.
The security implications of climate change have been an issue of
growing concern in the defense and intelligence communities.
Dennis Blair, the Obama administration's national intelligence
director, has told Congress that global warming will have broad
security implications over the next two decades.
Also, the Central Intelligence Agency has created a new group of
experts to study the security fallout of increased droughts,
population shifts, sea level rise and other likely impacts of severe
climate change, and the Pentagon has embarked on a detailed study on
the military's vulnerabilities from a warmer world.
"U..S. vulnerabilities to climate change are linked to the fate of
other nations," says Kathleen Hicks, a deputy undersecretary for
defense.
She told the Senate panel that senior defense officials believe
climate change will make U.S. security challenges more difficult and
complex.
While the debate over climate legislation has been sharply split along
partisan lines, the alarm over impacts on national security has come
from both Democrats and Republicans in the defense and intelligence
communities.
A recent report by the American Security Project, an advisory group of
high-powered Republicans and Democrats, called global warming "not
simply about saving polar bears or preserving beautiful mountain
glaciers ... (but) a threat to our security."
The group has on its board Republicans such as former Sen. Warren
Rudman as well as Democrats including Sen. John Kerry of
Massachusetts, the chief author of the Senate climate bill.
Across the globe there exist conflicts and security challenges
including ethnic conflicts and emerging radicalism and often "these
are also the parts of the world where we will see the most severe
consequences from climate change," Bernard Finel, a co-author of the
American Security Project report, said in an interview.
"The intelligence community, CIA, (military) commanders, they're all
looking at these issues."
Former Republican Sen. John Warner, a longtime chairman of the Armed
Services Committee and a close ally of the military, has been touring
the country to talk about climate change and national security.
"We are talking about energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and
climate-driven social instability," says Warner.
"We ignore these threats at the peril of our national security and at
great risk to those in uniform."
Among the flash points:
_ Himalayan glaciers are likely to recede, producing fresh water
shortages in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of China.
_ Receding Arctic ice could trigger a territorial conflict involving
Russia, the United States, Canada and others.
_ Sea level rise in Bangladesh, and drought in other parts of the
world could unleash a flood of cross-border "climate refugees" and
violence.
_ The Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, an atoll only a few feet
above sea level, likely would disappear, taking away a critical U.S.
military staging area.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:41 pm |
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4 Oct 2009
Watch out for a plague of (WT) ² during the coming
weeks as we approach a new international
convention on economic suicide.
It is shorthand for Worse Than Was Thought.
Suddenly, it is urgent. We have only ten years to
save the shellfish.
Strange how such things always become urgent just
before one of these international jollies.
No doubt infidels will come up with various
quibbles, such as the dreaded gas being less
soluble in the supposedly warming waters or the
negligible proportion of it that is being produced
by humans or the relatively smallness of the
change in the partial pressure of said terror gas.
More to come, no doubt!
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2009%20October.htm
Warmest Regards
Bon_0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the
worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion
since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands
of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal
has yet been detected that is distinct from
natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James
Cook University, Townsville
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu at (no spam) ix.netcom.com> wrote in
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From The Associated Press, 10/28/09:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icbUMbIvuwBo0HLhJ6DeDFF_4WYAD9BKBS283
Turmoil from climate change poses security risks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT (AP)
WASHINGTON -
An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S.
military, disappears
as the sea level rises.
Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink,
increasing military
tensions in South Asia.
Drought, famine and disease forces population
shifts and political
turmoil in the Middle East.
U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, viewing
these and other
potential impacts of global warming, have
concluded if they
materialize it would become ever more likely
global alliances will
shift, the need to respond to massive relief
efforts will increase and
American forces will become entangled in more
regional military
conflicts.
It is a bleak picture of national security that
backers of a climate
bill in Congress hope will draw in reluctant
Republicans who have
denounced the bill as an energy tax and jobs
killer because it would
shift the country away from fossil fuels by
limiting carbon dioxide
emissions from power plants and industrial
facilities.
At the current increasing rate of global carbon
dioxide pollution,
average world temperatures at the end of this
century will likely be
about 7 degrees higher than at the end of the
20th century, and seas
would be expected to rise by as much as 2 feet,
according to a
consensus of scientists on the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate
Change.
The security implications of global warming were
center stage
Wednesday at a Senate Environment and Public
Works Committee hearing,
one of a series of sessions in advance of voting
on the climate bill,
possibly as early as next week.
"Our economic, energy and climate change
challenges are all
inextricably linked," retired Vice Adm. Dennis
McGinn told the
committee.
"If we don't address these challenges in a bold
way and timely way,
fragile governments have great potential to
become failed states ....a
virile breathing ground for extremism."
"The U.S. military will be called to respond to
these threats," added
McGinn, a member of the CNA Military Advisory
Board, an influential
think tank on military and security issues.
The security implications of climate change have
been an issue of
growing concern in the defense and intelligence
communities.
Dennis Blair, the Obama administration's
national intelligence
director, has told Congress that global warming
will have broad
security implications over the next two decades.
Also, the Central Intelligence Agency has
created a new group of
experts to study the security fallout of
increased droughts,
population shifts, sea level rise and other
likely impacts of severe
climate change, and the Pentagon has embarked on
a detailed study on
the military's vulnerabilities from a warmer
world.
"U..S. vulnerabilities to climate change are
linked to the fate of
other nations," says Kathleen Hicks, a deputy
undersecretary for
defense.
She told the Senate panel that senior defense
officials believe
climate change will make U.S. security
challenges more difficult and
complex.
While the debate over climate legislation has
been sharply split along
partisan lines, the alarm over impacts on
national security has come
from both Democrats and Republicans in the
defense and intelligence
communities.
A recent report by the American Security
Project, an advisory group of
high-powered Republicans and Democrats, called
global warming "not
simply about saving polar bears or preserving
beautiful mountain
glaciers ... (but) a threat to our security."
The group has on its board Republicans such as
former Sen. Warren
Rudman as well as Democrats including Sen. John
Kerry of
Massachusetts, the chief author of the Senate
climate bill.
Across the globe there exist conflicts and
security challenges
including ethnic conflicts and emerging
radicalism and often "these
are also the parts of the world where we will
see the most severe
consequences from climate change," Bernard
Finel, a co-author of the
American Security Project report, said in an
interview.
"The intelligence community, CIA, (military)
commanders, they're all
looking at these issues."
Former Republican Sen. John Warner, a longtime
chairman of the Armed
Services Committee and a close ally of the
military, has been touring
the country to talk about climate change and
national security.
"We are talking about energy insecurity, water
and food shortages, and
climate-driven social instability," says Warner.
"We ignore these threats at the peril of our
national security and at
great risk to those in uniform."
Among the flash points:
_ Himalayan glaciers are likely to recede,
producing fresh water
shortages in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and
parts of China.
_ Receding Arctic ice could trigger a
territorial conflict involving
Russia, the United States, Canada and others.
_ Sea level rise in Bangladesh, and drought in
other parts of the
world could unleash a flood of cross-border
"climate refugees" and
violence.
_ The Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, an
atoll only a few feet
above sea level, likely would disappear, taking
away a critical U.S.
military staging area.
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b.o.n.z.o wrote:
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