Military experts warn of 'epic' humanitarian crisis ...

[wvit1001]

Military experts warn of 'epic' humanitarian crisis sparked by climate change


The former Commander of UK Maritime Forces and government climate and energy security envoy, said more UK forces would have to be deployed for conflict prevention and resolution and to respond to more frequent humanitarian disasters.

His warning is being backed by military experts from other parts of the world, who are speaking at an event at Chatham House.

Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, chief executive of the American Security Project and member of the US Department of State's foreign policy affairs board, said: "Climate change could lead to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

"We're already seeing migration of large numbers of people around the world because of food scarcity, water insecurity and extreme weather, and this is set to become the new normal."

The impacts of rising temperatures, such as droughts, are acting to increase instability on Europe's doorstep and there were direct links to climate change in the Syrian war, the Arab Spring and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in Africa, he said.

Unless countries tackled the root causes of global warming and cut greenhouse gas emissions, the national security impacts would be "increasingly costly and challenging".

Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, former military adviser to the president of Bangladesh and chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, warned South Asia could see the first "water war".

He said a combination of water scarcity in one of the most water-stressed regions in the world and political conditions had made the right brew for a potential conflict.

He also warned Bangladesh was the "ground zero" of climate change, and with one metre (3ft) of sea level rise the country could lose 20% of its land mass.

Rear Admiral Morisetti said climate change was a "threat multiplier" for security concerns.

"Climate change is a strategic security threat that sits alongside others like terrorism and state-on-state conflict, but also interacts with these threats.

"It is complex and challenging; this is not a concern for tomorrow, the impacts are playing out today," he said.


http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2016/11/30/military-experts-warn-of-epic-humanitarian-crisis-sparked-by-c/

[DaBoz]

Tell us something we don't know!!

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Earths-five-mass-extinction-events.html

We are all familiar with you white supremacists and your black genocide as an option for population control.

[wvit1001]

from you link boz -


So rate of change is a key variable in nature's ability to adapt. The current rate of change in CO2 levels has no known precedent. Oceans don't respond instantly to a CO2 build-up, so the full effects of acidification take decades to centuries to develop. This means we will have irretrievably committed the Earth to the acidification process long before its effects become anywhere near as obvious as those of mass bleaching today. If we continue business-as-usual CO2 emissions, ocean pH will eventually drop to a point at which a host of other chemical changes such as anoxia (an absence of oxygen) are expected. If this happens, the state of the oceans at the end Cretaceous 65 million years ago will become a reality and the Earth will enter the sixth mass extinction.


http://www.skepticalscience.com/Earths-five-mass-extinction-events.html

[DaBoz]

Oh and we also know about the Jihad that is in fact an 'epic' humanitarian crisis .

[wvit1001]

was that comment supposed to mean anything boz?  if it was then what?

[sine-qua-non]

Military experts are not climate experts.

They all need reasons they think will keep them employed.

Just another leftist fear monger it post.

[D2D]

What Wvit doesn't tell you is none of what the article has predicted as come to pass nor is there any indication of it doing so in the future!

[wvit1001]

lots of stuff about MMCC that's been predicted has come to pass d2.

[sweetwater5s9]

Scientists have calculated that termites alone produce ten times as much carbon dioxide as all the fossil fuels burned in the whole world in a year.

Pound for pound, the weight of all the termites in the world is greater than the total weight of humans.

Scientists estimate that, worldwide, termites may release over 150 million tons of methane gas into the atmosphere annually. In our lower atmosphere this methane then reacts to form carbon dioxide and ozone.

It is estimated that for every human on Earth there may be 1000 pounds of termites.

On the average Termites expel gas composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen.


Now researchers report that termites, digesting vegetable matter on a global basis, produce more than twice as much carbon dioxide as all the world's smokestacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/termite-gas-exceeds-smokestack-pollution.html


https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=%2C+termites+alone+emit+ten+times+more+carbon+dioxide&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003

[wvit1001]

1981 CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS WERE EERILY ACCURATE


A paper published in the journal Science in August 1981 made several projections regarding future climate change and anthropogenic global warming based on manmade CO2 emissions. As it turns out, the authors’  projections have proven to be rather accurate — and their future is now our present.

“The global temperature rose by 0.2ºC between the middle 1960’s and 1980, yielding a warming of 0.4ºC in the past century. This temperature increase is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect due to measured increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variations of volcanic aerosols and possibly solar luminosity appear to be primary causes of observed fluctuations about the mean rend of increasing temperature. It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980’s. Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climate zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.”

Now here we are in 2012, looking down the barrel of the global warming gun Hansen and team had reported was there 31 years earlier. In fact, we’ve already seen most of the predicted effects take place.

“In light of historical evidence that it takes several decades to complete a major change in fuel use, this makes large climate change almost inevitable,” Hansen et al wrote in anticipation of the difficulties of a global shift away from dependence on carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels.

“CO2 effects on climate may make full exploitation of coal resources undesirable,” the paper concludes. “An appropriate strategy may be to encourage energy conservation and develop alternative energy sources, while using fossil fuels as necessary during the next few decades.”


http://www.universetoday.com/94468/1981-climate-change-predictions-were-eerily-accurate/

[wvit1001]

termites have been around since way before man started burning fossil fuels and adding CO2 to the atmosphere.   

increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere in the past few decades has all been man's fault.

[sweetwater5s9]

 Over 80% of the 20th century's carbon dioxide increase occurred after 1940 — but most of the century's temperature increase occurred before 1940! From 1940 until the mid-1970s, the climate also failed to behave according to the greenhouse hypothesis, as carbon dioxide was strongly increasing while global temperatures cooled. This cooling led to countless scare stories in the media about a new ice age commencing.

The public has been led to believe that increased carbon dioxide from human activities is causing a greenhouse effect that is heating the planet. But carbon dioxide comprises only 0.035% of our atmosphere and is a very weak greenhouse gas. Although it is widely blamed for greenhouse warming, it is not the only greenhouse gas, or even the most important. Water vapor is a strong greenhouse gas and accounts for at least 95% of any greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide accounts for only about 3%, with the remainder due to methane and several other gases.

Not only is carbon dioxide's total greenhouse effect puny, mankind's contribution to it is minuscule. The overwhelming majority (97%) of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere comes from nature, not from man. Volcanoes, swamps, rice paddies, fallen leaves, and even insects and bacteria produce carbon dioxide, as well as methane. According to the journal Science termites alone emit ten times more carbon dioxide than all the factories and automobiles in the world.