US Navy Pacific Commander: “Climate Change and SLR top threat”
The head of the US Navy’s Pacific fleet called climate change the most significant threat to long-term security in that region. Navy Admiral Sean J. Locklear III made the comments Friday in an interview with The Boston Globe.
He said that turmoil from climate change “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.’’
From the Globe:
“People are surprised sometimes,” he added, describing the reaction to his assessment. “You have the real potential here in the not-too-distant future of nations displaced by rising sea level. Certainly weather patterns are more severe than they have been in the past. We are on super typhoon 27 or 28 this year in the Western Pacific. The average is about 17.”
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