NWC INS Lecture Series -- Lecture 3 'Climate Change'

The U.S. Naval War College is pleased to host the third lecture in this academic year's "Issues in National Security" lecture series.

Join Professor Andrea Cameron who will speak about "Climate Change".

From Professor Cameron: Climate change affects security around the world. CDR Cameron explores the basics of climate change and the many ways it interacts with national security. For over 20 years, the DoD has increasingly incorporated a variety of climate-related considerations into defense which is culminating in the recent surge of activities. This includes adapting to environmental changes, building resiliency within the infrastructure, and understanding the geostrategic and operational implications. Global changes to climate have significant impacts to local water, food, and other resources leading to potentially destabilizing effects on fragile state systems and migration. These changes affect the entire globe—leaving each country (allies and adversaries alike) to determine their unique security interests. The countries and organizations that best understand and anticipate these changes will be the best prepared to fight and win in the unstable climatic environment of the next century.

Cmdr. Andrea H. Cameron, U.S. Navy, is a permanent military professor teaching policy analysis in the National Security Affairs Department and the founding director of the Climate and Human Security Studies Group. Her academic interests explore non-traditional and transnational security threats and their impact on U.S. strategic, national security and economic interests. These research interests include climate change and security, climate and energy policy, human security topics and civil-military coordination during humanitarian assistance/disaster relief.

About the Lecture Series

ISSUES IN NATIONAL SECURITY (INS) LECTURES are designed to offer scholarly lectures to the spouses, partners, and significant others of our students; military/civilian employees assigned to the Naval War College and Naval Station Newport and its tenant activities, International Sponsors, Foundation members, and local-area retirees or active/reserve personnel.

[magesalmanac]

She explains her stance very well. Even if you’re not interested in being “eco friendly” it still remains a matter of national security and planning.

[RichardTasgal]

The following doesn't add to the substance of the lecture, but I think it's interesting and the areas overlap a bit with this talk. I once heard a lecture about global warming by John Deutch, former director of the CIA. It was aimed at an audience of physicists. It was sery interesting. What stuck with me was how huge the error bars were at the time. I'm sure they have narrowed enormously since then. In the question period, someone asked how an engineer became head of the CIA. Deutch's answer was that the government brought him in to figure out why experimental particle physics was getting so expensive and what might be done about it. That brought him into government, and got him on the path to leading the CIA.

[ΠαναγιώτηςΤριπόντικας]

BZ for being more than proactive in an issue that defines our future!

[phemstros]

I have been waiting for this to be said, it is a critical issue regardless of what you think of it. Nobody gets to put their head in the sand. @usnavalwarcollege I really appreciate you putting these up, please continue

[TheLucanicLord]

They say there are no stupid questions, but "Why don't you study hypersonic missiles instead" comes pretty close. Especially when the asker doesn't know what they are.

[homofloridensis]

Watching this in 2024, after the election, the question at 47.40 about human created climate change skepticism is prescient. With the election of Trump the second time, denial went from a problem to a devastating policy.

[HeBreaksLate]

I had read that DARPA has been working on biofuels to replace JP5. Is that an ongoing effort? Is any consideration being giving to developing more nuclear powered surface combatants beyond just the CVNs as a way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels?

[michaeljaffrey]

I wonder if she has noticed that, over the last 500 million years, there is almost no correlation between co2 and global temperature, or that as we come out of the Little Ice Age, warming is slowing.