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National Security Officials on the Threat of Climate Change

by Richard Matthews
November 14, 2012
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Here are 15 current and former national security officials in their own words reviewing the threats posed by climate change:

  • Thomas Fingar, former chairman of President Bush’s National
    Intelligence Council: “We judge global climate change will have wide-ranging
    implications for U.S. national security interests over the next 20 years … We
    judge that the most significant impact for the United States will be indirect
    and result from climate-driven effects on many other countries and their
    potential to seriously affect U.S. national security interests.”
  • Brig. General Steven Anderson, USA (Ret.), former Chief of
    Logistics under General Petraeus and a self-described “conservative Republican”:
    “Our oil addiction, I believe, is our greatest threat to our national security.
    Not just foreign oil but oil in general. Because I believe that in CO2 emissions
    and climate change and the instability that that all drives, I think that that
    increases the likelihood there will be conflicts in which American soldiers are
    going to have to fight and die somewhere.”
  • Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense: “[T]he area of climate
    change has a dramatic impact on national security: rising sea levels, to severe
    droughts, to the melting of the polar caps, to more frequent and devastating
    natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster
    relief.”
  • Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense: “Over the next 20
    years and more, certain pressures-population, energy, climate, economic,
    environmental-could combine with rapid cultural, social, and technological
    change to produce new sources of deprivation, rage, and instability.”
  • General Gordon Sullivan, USA (Ret.), former Army chief of
    staff: “Climate change is a national security issue. We found that climate
    instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military
    operations around the world.”
  • Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.): “If the destabilizing
    effects of climate change go unchecked, we can expect more frequent, widespread,
    and intense failed state scenarios creating large scale humanitarian disasters
    and higher potential for conflict and terrorism … The Department of Defense and
    national intelligence communities recognize this clear link between climate
    change, national security, and instability and have begun strategic plans and
    programs to both mitigate and adapt to the most likely and serious effects in
    key areas around the globe.”
  • General Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief
    of U.S. Central Command and special envoy to Israel and Palestine under
    President George W. Bush: “It’s not hard to make the connection between climate
    change and instability, or climate change and terrorism.”
  • Admiral Joseph Lopez, USN (Ret.): “Climate change will provide
    the conditions that will extend the war on terror.”
  • General Chuck Wald, USAF (Ret.), former Deputy Commander
    of U.S. European Command under President George W. Bush: “People can say what
    they want to about whether they think climate change is manmade or not, but
    there’s a problem there and the military is going to be a part of the solution.
    It’s a national security issue because it affects the stability of certain
    places in the world.”
  • Brig. General Bob Barnes, USA (Ret.): “While most people
    associate global warming with droughts, rising sea levels, declining food
    production, species extinction and habitat destruction, fewer connect these
    impacts to increasing instability around the globe and the resulting threats to
    our national security. But the connection—and the threat it poses—is real and
    growing.”
  • Vice Admiral Richard Truly, USN (Ret.), former NASA
    administrator: “The stresses that climate change will put on our national
    security will be different than any we’ve dealt with in the past.”
  • General Paul Kern, USA (Ret.), Commander of the United States
    Army Materiel Command under President George W. Bush: “Military planning should
    view climate change as a threat to the balance of energy access, water supplies,
    and a healthy environment, and it should require a response.’
  • Lt. General Lawrence Farrell, USAF (Ret.): “The planning we do
    that goes into organizing, training, and equipping our military considers all
    the risks that we may face. And one of the risks we see right now is climate
    change.”
  • Admiral John Nathman, USN (Ret.), former Commander of the U.S.
    Fleet Forces Command under President George W. Bush: “There are serious risks to
    doing nothing about climate change. We can pay now or we’re going to pay a whole
    lot later. The U.S. has a unique opportunity to become energy independent,
    protect our national security and boost our economy while reducing our carbon
    footprint. We’ve been a model of success for the rest of the world in the past
    and now we must lead the way on climate change.”
  • Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.): “The national security
    community is rightly worried about climate change because of the magnitude of
    its expected impacts around the globe, even in our own country … Climate change
    poses a clear and present danger to the United States of America. But if we
    respond appropriately, I believe we will enhance our security, not simply by
    averting the worst climate change impacts, but by spurring a new energy
    revolution.”

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