‘Climate change top threat in Pacific’

Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the US Pacific Forces top commander, said in an interview recently reported by the Boston Globe newspaper that he considers rising sea levels as the top security threat.

Locklear added that the sea levels would “cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.”

The military official added that he has reached to other military forces, including China and India, calling on them to “get military capabilities aligned [for] when the effects of climate change start to impact these massive population.”

“If it goes bad, you could have hundreds of thousands or millions of people displaced and then security will start to crumble pretty quickly,” Locklear said.

Over the past years, the issue of climate change has been a topic of heated debate.

In December 2012, the 18th UN Climate Change Summit held on limiting greenhouse gas emissions in the Qatari capital, Doha, extended the Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997 for combating global warming until 2020.

Many say extending the protocol will not make much difference in greenhouse gas levels since the protocol does not include some major polluters, such as the United States, China, and India, and the signatories only account for about 15 percent of global emissions.

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‘Climate change top threat in Pacific’

Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the US Pacific Forces top commander, said in an interview recently reported by the Boston Globe newspaper that he considers rising sea levels as the top security threat.

Locklear added that the sea levels would “cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.”

The military official added that he has reached to other military forces, including China and India, calling on them to “get military capabilities aligned [for] when the effects of climate change start to impact these massive population.”

“If it goes bad, you could have hundreds of thousands or millions of people displaced and then security will start to crumble pretty quickly,” Locklear said.

Over the past years, the issue of climate change has been a topic of heated debate.

In December 2012, the 18th UN Climate Change Summit held on limiting greenhouse gas emissions in the Qatari capital, Doha, extended the Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997 for combating global warming until 2020.

Many say extending the protocol will not make much difference in greenhouse gas levels since the protocol does not include some major polluters, such as the United States, China, and India, and the signatories only account for about 15 percent of global emissions.

MKA/JR

Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/11/293081/climate-change-biggest-security-worry/

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