General Gordon Sullivan, Former Cheif of Staff US Army
Rear Admiral David Titley
- The impact of ocean acidification may mean people that live of protien from the oceans may not be able to do that (oceans will be dead)
- Navy has a goal to reduce carbon based fuels by 50% by 2020
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn
- "Climate Change acts as a threat mutliplier for instability in critical regions of the world."
- Failing government structures will create opportunity for terrorists
- Climate change and fossil fuel addiction is by any measure the biggest threat
James Woolsey Director CIA, Undersecretary US Navy
- "Exponential effects may be why actual temperatures are above those predicted."
- We may get liuck and manage to deal with some of the issues
- Insofar you are moving to distributed generation of electricity, because you are worried about the security of the web, terrorist attacks on the web and the like, photovoltaics on the roof etc, insofar you are doing that you are also going green
- You are funding the terrorists when you buy gas at the gas station
Rosie Boycott, Former editor of the Independent on Sunday
- Floods will mean crop failure
- Nine meals from anargy, meaning it takse three days of famine break down society
General Ron Keyes, Former commander, Air combat command
- You can debate the science, but something is happening
Wesley Clark Former Supreme Allied Commander of Nato
- We've got to act now
General Chuck Wald, USAF
- We have the responsibility to do something now
- A gallon of fuel to a forward base in Afganistn costs 1000 usd
- The navy is looking at algae based fuel, the good news is its going to be plentyfull, clean to make, burns a little better and it doesn't have to have a new infrastructure to move it around.
General Anthony Zinni, Forme Chief US Central Command
- I was part of a study on the security issues of climate change. The arctic will be an issue
- Major diaspora's, banglaseh goes away
- Battles over water is going to be more the liquid of conflict than oil
Kent Butts, US Army War College
- Russia claimed the North Pole, many countries border the future open waters of the arctic and antarctic
- Overconsumption is an easily singled out problem in relations between north and south
- Osama Bin Laden believes that the west disregards the impact of climate change on the developing world
Ray Maybus, Honorary Secretary of the Navy
- We are going to deploy by 2016 a navy carrier strike group composed completely of alternatively powered ships
