For the most part heads in the sand, climate deniers.

I find it interesting that they continually insist on exemptions from EPA/Clean Air Act/Clean Water Act regulations and ESA protections on their bases. It is also interesting someone would make such a suggestion given that the military is one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels on the planet and have very little interest in efficiency regarding their fossil fuel use.

This may just be them singing a sing of deflection trying to convince the rest of us that they care or are interested in our concerns regarding the decimation of the biosphere.

To everybody.

It hits the global south first and hardest, and is going to have (is already having) significant national security implications.

On the other hand, it occasionally works for peace: India and Sri Lanka were getting close to a shooting war over a tiny uninhabited rock between them. They came out for the new round of saber rattling a couple of years ago and the rock was submerged.

Excellent post!

They know the facts!

BTW, don't take this as a denial of climate change......yes, it is real, and it *is* a problem. However, though, I don't believe the military necessarily has access to so-called "top secret", or whatever, climate info that we, on the street, don't have. Though perhaps this is just a case of poor wording by Forbes, more than anything.

military problem???

Or what happens if Long Island is suddenly submerged???

Hope that the military are putting in place plans for the worst case situations now and not when they are happening.

the masses of poverty stricken climate refugees will be lovingly embraced and welcomed by the wealthy elites of greener pastures. Live and let live!

No scientist says that. 50 million people are not going to suddenly move to a new area. Nonsense.

September 21, 1938 — The New England Hurricane of 1938 (Also Called "The Long Island Express&quot makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.

Wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washes across part of the island. In New York 60 deaths and hundreds of injuries were attributed to the storm. In addition, 2,600 boats and 8,900 houses are destroyed.

Hurricanes have been around forever although diminishing in recent years as far as the U.S. And 50 million people did not suddenly move somewhere else. People are moving gradually from the North and East to the South and West. Part of that is economic and part is weather. Who wants to live in the frigid north all your life when you can live in decent weather in the SW.

They have the same information as everyone else. Their job is to scenario plan future conflict and the decline in resources like water and food due to temperature change is very important to predicting future conflict. It is no surprise to the military that conflict is currently raging in areas of the world completely strapped for water resources and it will get worse.

Does not last long unless it is reality based.