Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:07:10 GMT

Future climate change may force US military involvement abroad with Washington saying it has to intervene to defend power structures hardest hit by climate change.

The aftereffects of the changes like wholesale population movements and pandemics would trigger conflicts that could dent local governments thus necessitating US military intervention, said the New York Times on Saturday quoting military and intelligence pundits.

In the Middle East and North Africa climate change is an especially urgent issue, particularly in a region that experiences increasingly frequent droughts and a looming water supply shortage.  

Fresh water is scarce in Morocco’s arid and semi-arid zones, and
decreasing in both quality and quantity. Changing climate conditions
are thus affecting both agricultural production and human health. The
Souss watershed is one such arid region where the water table is
diminishing rapidly. Neighbouring mountain communities meanwhile have
suffered the effects of severe drought.

Summary: According to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a Nobel Prize winning group established by the United Nations -, global warming in the 21st century is likely to cause more environmental damage than predicted and will continue if swift action is not taken. Due to the human-caused climate change, temperatures are rising and could cause tropical forests and the Arctic tundra to release billions of tons of greenhouses gases, which as a result, would raise global temperatures even more.