Page 19 - Crop Failures News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Several times on the reduction of sea ice in the arctic, they were trying to pin me down on scientific questions. obviously i'm not a scientist. there was water where there didn't used to be, we're responsible for it, we have to operate in it. it's a reality in day to day lives, military operations. where the folks live in these areas have to live. we have to understand that it's there, we have to operate and carry out our duties. >> it was fascinating to me in the trove of bin laden documents, one of them was an undated document, written by bin laden discussing the massive consequence of clim...

>> there's been a long record in recent history of people talking about the security threat of climate change. i feel like there's always an expectation that that's going to be the thing that breaks through and makes everyone take notice. and it never seems to happen. >> i think it's always been there. if you look at the security issues related to crop failures, fish stocks declining, the instability that comes from that. regions of the world become less governed or lawless, i think it's always been there, the question is, can we localize and understand what's going on, and be able to respond ...

To the extent that climate change or weather affects that. you need to factor that in to the capability and tactics. >> there's been a long record in recent history of people talking about the security threat of climate change. i feel like there's always an expectation that that's going to be the thing that breaks through and makes everyone take notice. and it never seems to happen. >> i think it's always been there. if you look at the security issues related to crop failures, fish stocks declining, the instability that comes from that. regions of the world become less governed or lawless, i t...

Admittedly mishandled questions about his brother's record iraq is making the case the country was better off under president george w. bush. >> isis didn't exist when am prowas present. al qaeda in iraq was wiped out when my brother was president. there were mistakes made in iraq for surgee. >> reporter: in a speech on climate change the president steered clear of the debate over his strategy, instead arguing that global warming is a national security threat. contributing to the crisis in syria where isis took root. >> it's now believed that drought and crop failures and high fuel prices help...

Change and war. climate change exacerbated the worst drought ever in modern syria helping to push it over the brink into civil war. it led to crop failures. climate changed pushed up food prices aggravated poverty. while it was not the only factor in a web of complex social and geopolitical pressures, the syrian drought worsened by climate change was a key contributor in the ensuing four years of conflict. conflict that has led to 210,000 being killed. human influences on the climate system are implicated. a drought of the severity and duration of the recent syrian