The CIA closed down its Center on Climate Change and National Security. The office was created in 2009 and served as a conduit for the CIA to investigate how climate change is a national security threat. CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said the agency's work on climate change has been transferred to a new office.
I’d like to comment on an interview Ebitz made with The Hill. I recorded the discussion and did some additional research on the CIA’s involvement with climate change; i.e., global warming. For years, not only the CIA, but the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has studied the national security implications of climate change. Ironically, these two organizations are concerned about the nexus between climate change and security and explored the national security impact of desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. They mention desertification and lack of water is especially troubling, since water is the one underlying factor for all humanity. Civilizations will take drastic measures to have reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing.
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I poured through a study by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, entitled, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security". It was completed in October 2003. They interviewed top climate scientists and found that by 2013 the evidence of an imminent abrupt climate shift may become clear and reliable. Their prediction is correct! In December, climatologist stated that they are alarmed about the speed at which climate change is occurring, and that it’s accelerating beyond their prediction rate.
Schwartz and Randall’s recommended actions need to be taken, now, to prevent and mitigate some of the most significant impacts.
Back in 2003, they called for diplomatic action to minimize the likelihood of conflict in the most impacted areas, especially in the Caribbean and Asia. Large population movements are inevitable and we must learn how to manage those populations as border tensions and massive refugee problems escalate.
Climate change will force the U.S. to establish new forms of security agreements dealing specifically with energy, food and water that will also be needed. In short, while the US itself will be relatively better off and with more adaptive capacity, it will find itself in a world where Europe will be struggling internally, with large numbers of refugees washing up on its shores. Asia will have a serious crisis over food and water and political, social, economical and environmental disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.
I hope that media entertainers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and politicians like Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and Ohio Rep. John Boehner (leader of the House), who believe climate change is a hoax and not a growing national security threat, will change their archaic views. I also hope that the CIA’s discarded Center on Climate Change and National Security is alive and operationally-well in another area of the Intelligence Community. After all, a world population bomb coupled with increasing droughts is threatening available water supplies. Rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside.
No wonder the CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff are very concerned about the impact climate change will have on the security of America
Climate change a national security threat, not a hoax
The CIA closed down its Center on Climate Change and National Security. The office was created in 2009 and served as a conduit for the CIA to investigate how climate change is a national security threat. CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said the agency's work on climate change has been transferred to a new office.
I’d like to comment on his statement, which he made during an interview with The Hill. I recorded the discussion and did some additional research on the CIA’s involvement with climate change; i.e., global warming. For years, not only the CIA, but the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has studied the national security implications of climate change. Ironically, these two organizations are concerned about the nexus between climate change and security and explored the national security impact of desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. They mention desertification and lack of water is especially troubling, since water is the one underlying factor for all humanity. Civilizations will take drastic measures to have reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing.
I poured through a study by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, entitled, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security". It was completed in October 2003. They interviewed top climate scientists and found that by 2013 the evidence of an imminent abrupt climate shift may become clear and reliable. Their prediction is correct! In December, climatologist stated that they are alarmed about the speed at which climate change is occurring, and that it’s accelerating beyond their prediction rate.
Schwartz and Randall’s recommended actions need to be taken, now, to prevent and mitigate some of the most significant impacts.
Back in 2003, they called for diplomatic action to minimize the likelihood of conflict in the most impacted areas, especially in the Caribbean and Asia. Large population movements are inevitable and we must learn how to manage those populations as border tensions and massive refugee problems escalate.
Climate change will force the U.S. to establish new forms of security agreements dealing specifically with energy, food and water that will also be needed. In short, while the US itself will be relatively better off and with more adaptive capacity, it will find itself in a world where Europe will be struggling internally, with large numbers of refugees washing up on its shores. Asia will have a serious crisis over food and water and political, social, economical and environmental disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.
I hope that media entertainers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and politicians like Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and Ohio Rep. John Boehner (leader of the House), who believe climate change is a hoax and not a growing national security threat, will change their archaic views. I also hope that the CIA’s discarded Center on Climate Change and National Security is alive and operationally-well in another area of the Intelligence Community. After all, a world population bomb coupled with increasing droughts is threatening available water supplies. Rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside.
No wonder the CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff are very concerned about the impact climate change will have on the security of America
Climate change a national security threat, not a hoax
The CIA closed down its Center on Climate Change and National Security. The office was created in 2009 and served as a conduit for the CIA to investigate how climate change is a national security threat. CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said the agency's work on climate change has been transferred to a new office.
I’d like to comment on his statement, which he made during an interview with The Hill. I recorded the discussion and did some additional research on the CIA’s involvement with climate change; i.e., global warming. For years, not only the CIA, but the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has studied the national security implications of climate change. Ironically, these two organizations are concerned about the nexus between climate change and security and explored the national security impact of desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. They mention desertification and lack of water is especially troubling, since water is the one underlying factor for all humanity. Civilizations will take drastic measures to have reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing.
I poured through a study by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, entitled, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security". It was completed in October 2003. They interviewed top climate scientists and found that by 2013 the evidence of an imminent abrupt climate shift may become clear and reliable. Their prediction is correct! In December, climatologist stated that they are alarmed about the speed at which climate change is occurring, and that it’s accelerating beyond their prediction rate.
Schwartz and Randall’s recommended actions need to be taken, now, to prevent and mitigate some of the most significant impacts.
Back in 2003, they called for diplomatic action to minimize the likelihood of conflict in the most impacted areas, especially in the Caribbean and Asia. Large population movements are inevitable and we must learn how to manage those populations as border tensions and massive refugee problems escalate.
Climate change will force the U.S. to establish new forms of security agreements dealing specifically with energy, food and water that will also be needed. In short, while the US itself will be relatively better off and with more adaptive capacity, it will find itself in a world where Europe will be struggling internally, with large numbers of refugees washing up on its shores. Asia will have a serious crisis over food and water and political, social, economical and environmental disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.
I hope that media entertainers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and politicians like Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and Ohio Rep. John Boehner (leader of the House), who believe climate change is a hoax and not a growing national security threat, will change their archaic views. I also hope that the CIA’s discarded Center on Climate Change and National Security is alive and operationally-well in another area of the Intelligence Community. After all, a world population bomb coupled with increasing droughts is threatening available water supplies. Rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside.
No wonder the CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff are very concerned about the impact climate change will have on the security of America
Climate change a national security threat, not a hoax
The CIA closed down its Center on Climate Change and National Security. The office was created in 2009 and served as a conduit for the CIA to investigate how climate change is a national security threat. CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said the agency's work on climate change has been transferred to a new office.
I’d like to comment on his statement, which he made during an interview with The Hill. I recorded the discussion and did some additional research on the CIA’s involvement with climate change; i.e., global warming. For years, not only the CIA, but the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has studied the national security implications of climate change. Ironically, these two organizations are concerned about the nexus between climate change and security and explored the national security impact of desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. They mention desertification and lack of water is especially troubling, since water is the one underlying factor for all humanity. Civilizations will take drastic measures to have reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing.
I poured through a study by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, entitled, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security". It was completed in October 2003. They interviewed top climate scientists and found that by 2013 the evidence of an imminent abrupt climate shift may become clear and reliable. Their prediction is correct! In December, climatologist stated that they are alarmed about the speed at which climate change is occurring, and that it’s accelerating beyond their prediction rate.
Schwartz and Randall’s recommended actions need to be taken, now, to prevent and mitigate some of the most significant impacts.
Back in 2003, they called for diplomatic action to minimize the likelihood of conflict in the most impacted areas, especially in the Caribbean and Asia. Large population movements are inevitable and we must learn how to manage those populations as border tensions and massive refugee problems escalate.
Climate change will force the U.S. to establish new forms of security agreements dealing specifically with energy, food and water that will also be needed. In short, while the US itself will be relatively better off and with more adaptive capacity, it will find itself in a world where Europe will be struggling internally, with large numbers of refugees washing up on its shores. Asia will have a serious crisis over food and water and political, social, economical and environmental disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.
I hope that media entertainers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and politicians like Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and Ohio Rep. John Boehner (leader of the House), who believe climate change is a hoax and not a growing national security threat, will change their archaic views. I also hope that the CIA’s discarded Center on Climate Change and National Security is alive and operationally-well in another area of the Intelligence Community. After all, a world population bomb coupled with increasing droughts is threatening available water supplies. Rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside.
No wonder the CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff are very concerned about the impact climate change will have on the security of America. It's time to stop denying and start acting.
Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes the online Corey Pearson, CIA Intelligence Operative series, a Caribbean adventure.
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