Rising sea levels, hotter global temperatures, wildly fluctuating - TopicsExpress



          

Rising sea levels, hotter global temperatures, wildly fluctuating precipitation patterns, and more frequent extreme weather systems will likely intensify global instability, hunger, and poverty. These events could very well lead to acute food and water shortages, an explosion of pandemic diseases, waves of destitute refugees, and violent conflagrations over dwindling natural resources — a likelihood that should be viewed as an immediate threat to Americas national security. Those are the sobering themes of a new report on climate change, authored not by scientists or environmentalists, but by the Pentagon.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:54:28 +0000

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