[Probabilistic Water Balance Modeling for Irrigation Systems] Modelacion del balance hidrico en sistemas de riego para la optimizacion de disponibilidad hidrica superficial y control de los requerimientos de agua de cultivos
by Nafeez Ahmed Oct 24 2019
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.
The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army’s Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.
Bizarrely for a report styling itself around the promotion of environmental stewardship in the Army, the report identifies the Arctic as a critical strategic location for future US military involvement: to maximize fossil fuel consumption.
Paths To Knowledge (dot NET): "The 16 January 2010 issue of New Scientist is really interesting as New Scientist admit that they published “non peer reviewed speculations” as if it was science (rather than soothsaying) and that those speculations were tre
future scarcities, wave of extinctions, supply bottlenecks a tidal wave of unrest the breakdown of social order a tsunami of disaster "In March, for the first time, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper listed “competition and scarcity involving natural resources” as a national security threat on a par with global terrorism, cyberwar, and nuclear proliferation... There was a new phrase embedded in his comments: “resource shocks.” "