3 APRIL 2014
Climate change and conflict are two of history’s oldest bedfellows. The impacts of natural climate change on food yields, river flows and habitable land have long acted as triggers for conflict. Human-driven climate change is likely to do the same this century, but on a larger and more intense scale – unless extraordinary international emissions abatement occurs.
No surprise, then, that this year’s annual conference of the Australian defence industry, held in Canberra in February, devoted a session to considering what climate change means for Australia’s defence planning, equipping and operational scope. And no surprise that the large audience did not query the basic science.
Source: The Age