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Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Citing military experts, The Guardian is reporting that if the rise in global warming is held under 2 degrees Celsius, there still could be a major humanitarian crisis to sort out. From the report: Climate change is set to cause a refugee crisis of "unimaginable scale," according to senior military figures, who warn that global warming is the greatest security threat of the 21st century and that mass migration will become the "new normal." The generals said the impacts of climate change were already factors in the conflicts driving a current crisis of migration into Europe, having been linked to the Arab Spring, the war in Syria and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency. Military leaders have long warned that global warming could multiply and accelerate security threats around the world by provoking conflicts and migration. They are now warning that immediate action is required. "Climate change is the greatest security threat of the 21st century," said Maj Gen Munir Muniruzzaman, chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on climate change and a former military adviser to the president of Bangladesh. He said one metre of sea level rise will flood 20% of his nation. "Weâ(TM)re going to see refugee problems on an unimaginable scale, potentially above 30 million people."

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  1. Re:Liars will Liar by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah yes, some oil company-funded think tanks and a couple of climatologists who have never published any of their AGW-crushing research must be speaking the truth, whereas the overwhelming majority of experts in the field are faking it.

    Oh, and I think at this juncture useful to remind this AC that those aforementioned oil companies knew about AGW forty years ago.

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  2. Re: Better up the Military Budget by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The amount of money in AGW is a fraction of the amount of money oil companies pump out of the ground every week.

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  3. Re:Better up the Military Budget by avgjoe62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's 30 million people in Bangladesh alone, not worldwide.

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  4. Re:Liars will Liar by NatasRevol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You sound exactly like you work on the @HouseScience committee.

    Who yesterday tweeted out an anti climate change article. From Breitbart. Because it got colder. In winter.

    Holy Fucking Shit.

    https://twitter.com/HouseScien...

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