U.S. security environment 'crippled' by the real environment

The security environment will likely be crippled by the world’s changing climate.

Commander Samuel
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That, it should be said, is little more than a rather flash way of saying that the world’s armed forces face great difficulty in doing what they usually do as our climate changes bringing with it unpredictable and extreme weather events.

An admission of this quickly emerging difficulty has come from the commander of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear.

This observation was noted by Mother Jones reporter, Julia Whitty, in her story: “Climate Change is Biggest Threat,Says Top Navy Commander in Pacific”.

"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." Locklear continued: "People are surprised sometimes, [but] 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,” Locklear said.