U.S. and Philippine military personnel distribute food aid after Typhoon Botha, Dec. 2012, a mission that the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific sees as growing more frequent due to climate change. Photo: U.S. Pacific Command/Flickr
Climate Change Is The Biggest Threat In The Pacific, Says Top U.S. Admiral -- Danger Room
North Korea just annulled the 1953 armistice ending its war with South Korea. China and Japan are locked in a dispute over an island chain. But the greatest long-term threat to the peace of East Asia and Pacific Ocean — the part of the world at the heart of the Obama administration’s aspirational defense strategy — is climate change, according to the admiral in charge of U.S. military operations there.
Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III is no smelly hippie. He became chief of U.S. Pacific Command last year after running the maritime portion of NATO’s 2011 war against Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. To Locklear, the consequences of a warming planet are likely to “cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.”
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