CAMBRIDGE — America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change.
Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, in an interview at a Cambridge hotel Friday after he met with scholars at Harvard and Tufts universities, said significant upheaval related to the warming planet “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.’’
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I suppose the admiral is another one of those liberal nuts spreading panic to cripple the oil industry. I bet he dpesn't even listen to Rush.
The dearth of Right Wing Wacko responses is interesting. Hard for the macho chicken hawks to criticize an active Admiral. Why who knows? Next people would be telling us that John Wayne was a fraud!!!
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I'll play.
The UN IPCC admits that the earth's average temperature has not increased in 16 years. Meanwhile, Al Gore and the other chicken littles are laughing all the way to the bank.
I believe in climate change, it has changed constantly since the beginning of time. It is human folly to believe that we can change the climate by turning our economy into a basket case.
At least our armed forces are taking the threat of global warming seriously.