The Climate Secretary Chris Huhne has claimed that climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK. It is his belief that climate change will make poor nations poorer, unstable nations more unstable and that this will increase the risk of conflict, and believes that the UK and her allies must urgently prepare for any threat, though this comes at the same time as claims that government defence cuts pose a major security risk. A Ministry of Defence report states that climate change is one of four critical issues that will affect everyone on the planet in the next 30 years, and echoes former government scientific adviser Sir David King who warned in 2004 that global warming posed ‘a bigger threat than global terrorism’. Climate change intensifies threats in three ways: increasing competition for resources, increased humanitarian disasters and subsequent migrations, and threats to the security of energy supplies. Mr Huhne argues that is in the national interest to cut carbon emissions and encourage other countries to do so.
Read on at the Guardian.