Implications for US national security of anticipated climate change
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the Intelligence Community’s (IC) analysis of the possible impacts of climate change on national security over the next 20 years, the IC takes as a scientific baseline the reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international body responsible for assessing the science related to climate change. This memorandum does not assess effects on the homeland, nor does it evaluate the science of the IPCC reports. Long-term changes in climate will produce more extreme weather events and put greater stress on critical Earth systems like oceans, freshwater, and biodiversity. These in turn will almost certainly have significant effects, both direct and indirect, across social, economic, political, and security realms during the next 20 years. These effects will be all the more pronounced as people continue to concentrate in climate-vulnerable locations, such as coastal areas, water-stressed regions, and ever-growing cities. Climate change and its resulting effects are likely to pose wide-ranging national security challenges for the United States and other countries over the next 20 years through the following pathways:threats to the stability of countries, heightened social and political tensions, adverse effects on food prices and availability, increased risks to human health, negative impacts on investments and economic competitiveness, potential climate discontinuities and secondary surprises.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource (13 pages) : illustrations.(color) |
| Place | District of Columbia |
| Place | [Washington, D.C.] |
| Publisher | National Intelligence Council |
| Publication date | 2016; 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Issuing body | National Intelligence Council (U.S.) |
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Subjects
| Subject | National security > United States |
|---|---|
| Subject | Climatic changes > Political aspects |
| Subject | Global warming > Political aspects |
| Subject | Climatic changes > Political aspects |
| Subject | Global warming > Political aspects |
| Subject | National security |
| Subject | United States |
| Genre | Text-txt |
Bibliographic information
| Note | "This memorandum was prepared by the National Intelligence Council and was coordinated with the US intelligence community." |
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| Note | "21 September 2016. NIC WP 2016-01." |
| System details | System requirements: PDF reader. |
| OCLC | 962766420 |
| Location | electronic resource |
| Location | electronic resource |
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Collection
Government Information United States Federal Collection
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