Climate and National Security: Securing Better Forecasts

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research served as an important donor to a symposium held June 21-23, 2010 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography entitled Climate and National Security: Securing Better Forecasts . The Principal Investigator was Reno L. Harnish III, Ambassador (ret.) and Director of the Center for Environment and National Security. The symposium was attended by senior policy makers and distinguished scientists. The juxtaposition of these communities was creative and fruitful. They acknowledged they were speaking past each other. Scientists were urged to tell policy makers about even improbable outcomes while articulating clearly the uncertainties around the outcomes. As one policy maker put it, we are accustomed to making these types of decisions. These points were captured clearly in an article that appeared on the New York Times website and can be found with other conference materials most easily on our website, www.scripps.ucsd.edu/cens/. The symposium, generously supported by the Office of Naval Research, benefitted the public by promoting scientifically informed decision making and by the transmission of objective information regarding climate change and national security.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA572609

Entities

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Environmental Security
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Risk
  • Scientists
  • Security
  • Social Sciences

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.