Chad Briggs: Climate Change, Risk, and Uncertainty

We must do more than simply take our current understanding of climate-change risk and extrapolate it into the future, asserted Chad Briggs of the Berlin-based Adelphi Research in a video interview with the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program.

For planners in the military and intelligence community, climate change brings a "context of uncertainty" that is challenging because they must "look in the dark spaces" where there is little data, said Briggs. But he argues it is imperative that they do so: "So often...we look just where we can look, even though we know it's the wrong place."

Read the full post on The New Security Beat: http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2010/07/backdraft-video-chad-briggs-deali...

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