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The Ice Melt Equation: An Ultimate Geopolitical Calculus
This is a cross-post from Relief Analysis Wire
“Do ice sheets have a linear or exponential melt rate?”
This question may not be echoed frequently around the command centers of NATO, streets of Damascus, or ministries of Beijing. But if researchers James Hansen and Makiko Sato are correct in their inkling, then geopolitics, global security, and humanitarian operations just got extremely problematic in the coming decades. (more…)
CNA Report: Climate Change, Rising Temperatures and Energy Use at U.S. Military Installations
CNA recently released a memo focused on an important yet little-explored impact of climate change: the effect of rising temperatures on energy use at key U.S. military installations across the country. The conclusion: Higher costs, and adaptations in building design as well as heating and cooling systems, are likely on the horizon. (more…)
Will climate-related disasters test humanitarian relief to destruction?
This blog is a cross-post which originally appeared on AlertNet
By Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell is head of climate change at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and one of the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters (SREX) (more…)