Climate Change as a Challenge to the Armed Forces

Armed Forces of the Persian Gulf Countries

The armed forces and the army are main elements of national power. Military readiness gives real significance to the geography, natural resources, and industrial power. Military elements of national power include military purposes, military doctrines, military strategies and policies (defensive and non-defensive), forces, training, command, military technology, weapons and equipment, military o...

Climate change: meeting the challenge.

The debate over global warming is over. That was the implicit message of a public letter that appeared in the journal Science on May 7, 2010, signed by 255 members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, including Lonnie Thompson. The letter declared that ‘‘there is compelling, comprehensive, and consistent objective evidence that humans are changing the climate in ways that threaten o...

Mapping the climate change challenge

The recent negotiations on climate change in Paris have left partly open the discussion on a long-term global goal, in the form of an upper limit to warming. Agreement on such a limit is a political decision that need to be informed by scientific knowledge through a mapping that systematically explores the consequences of different policy choices. Such a multi-disciplinary effort, based on the ...

Climate-change challenge continues

There was euphoria amongst many delegates to last month's UN climate change conference in Montreal as countries struck a deal at the twelfth hour, but many researchers are concerned that a major study on the degree to which greenhouse gases need to be reduced to stabilise climate is still pressing. " Without an agreement on what level of climate change is 'dangerous' world leaders risk losing s...

The armed forces as a career for doctors.