07-21-2014, 11:03 PM
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS IN US AIM TO HAVE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE VIEWED AS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO BE ADDRESSED BY DEPT OF DEFENSE AND PENTAGON
According to Congress's watchdog agency, there is a new threat facing the nation's armed forces, and the Department of Defense is not doing enough about it.
The threat? Global climate change.
In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office described what that threat looks like today at U.S. military bases: Air Force runways at remote radar sites being eaten away by encroaching tides. Army training ranges that are flooded, burned by wildfires or bogged down by melting permafrost. Submarines in dry dock, threatened by coastal flooding that might permanently damage the multibillion-dollar machines. Investigators heard from military officials that the heavy rain, storm surges, warm temperatures and droughts that caused these conditions are on the rise.
STORY: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/21/opinio...itary-foe/
According to Congress's watchdog agency, there is a new threat facing the nation's armed forces, and the Department of Defense is not doing enough about it.
The threat? Global climate change.
In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office described what that threat looks like today at U.S. military bases: Air Force runways at remote radar sites being eaten away by encroaching tides. Army training ranges that are flooded, burned by wildfires or bogged down by melting permafrost. Submarines in dry dock, threatened by coastal flooding that might permanently damage the multibillion-dollar machines. Investigators heard from military officials that the heavy rain, storm surges, warm temperatures and droughts that caused these conditions are on the rise.
STORY: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/21/opinio...itary-foe/