Military Brass See Global Warming as Security Threat

AFP has reported that a number of former senior military officers have testified before the Senate Foreign Relations committee that global warming could pose a threat to national security. Here's a quote:

"Climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security," said retired admiral and former US ambassador to China Joseph Prueher, one of eleven retired generals and admirals who compiled a recent report on the issue.

"Climate change will exacerbate many of the causes of instability that exist today -- those instabilities are part of the underpinnings of extremism."

Prueher said the US military should start planning now for the new era of environmentally spawned security threats, in the hope of mitigating some of the worst impact.