Climate Issues Tied to US Security - Walter Pincus, Washington Post

Climate Issues Tied to US Security - Walter Pincus, Washington Post

US intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command. "Without food aid, the region will likely face higher levels of instability, particularly violent ethnic clashes over land ownership," probably creating "extensive and novel operational requirements," for the fledgling US Africa Command, according to a National Intelligence Assessment on the security implications of climate change by the National Intelligence Council.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502800.html

Terrorism Boost with Change of Climate? - Pamela Hess, Associated Press

Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and may add to terrorism - all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by US intelligence agencies. "Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated [by climate change] would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism," said Tom Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, who testified before a joint House committee hearing Wednesday.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/26/terrorism-boost-with-change-of-climate/