Thursday, November 25, 2010

Climate change could [cause terrorism]
The UK Defence Department and Foreign Office climate and energy security envoy, Neil Morisetti, says there has been a growing awareness that climate change is more than an environmental challenge and there are security implications.
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Admiral Morisetti, appointed last year ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summit and in Australia for talks with politicians and officials, said there were issues of immediate security concern including terrorism.
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Australia has no directly comparable official to Admiral Morisetti, who represents the UK Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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"Today, the military in all our countries are busy. This is not an attempt by the military to hijack climate change to give us a job. We have more than enough on our plates.
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Admiral Morisetti said climate change would produce more extreme weather events with militaries called on to conduct relief operations.

For the military, a security consequence could stem from those displaced or losing their livelihood, then taking up an AK-47 and the $5-a-day pay of a criminal or terrorist gang.

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