How to talk to an Ostrich: The Pentagon & Climate Change
Do only tree-huggers think climate change is real? Not exactly.The Pentagon, mandated to look decades ahead for threats to the nation’s security, started factoring climate change into strategic doctrine with the 2012 Quadrennial Defense Review, the QDR. Admiral David Titley, director of Task Force Climate Change and former Oceanographer of the Navy, explains why the Pentagon accepts climate change as real, and how it’s impacting military planning.