David Titley: How the military fights climate change
David Titley: Come l'esercito combatte il cambiamento climatico
Scientist and retired Navy officer Dr. David Titley asks a big question: Could the US military play a role in combating climate change? Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
about climate and change,
sul clima e sul cambiamento,
and not polar bears.
non sugli orsi polari.
that we lived in in the mid-2000s.
nella metà degli anni 2000.
for the Navy's weather and ocean service.
climatico e oceanico della Marina.
Stennis Space Center,
called Stennis Space Center
chiamata Waveland, in Mississippi,
called Waveland, Mississippi,
come potete vedere,
it's up against a storm surge.
storm surge does
di trenta piedi o nove metri
this is, like, right after Katrina --
casa, qui è subito dopo Katrina,
up there in the railway tracks,
sui binari del treno,
in the Gulf of Mexico,
perso la nostra casa.
we really, we lost our house.
the luckiest people on the Gulf Coast.
i più fortunati sulla Costa del Golfo.
is probably pretty important there.
di un'assicurazione è molto importante.
you know, what happened here?
because as you've heard,
perché, come avete sentito,
to do something like this.
può causare disastri come questo.
and kind of look at this.
e diamo un'occhiata.
climate's really complicated,
it's all about the water.
come se tutto dipendesse dalle acque.
there down on the lower part?
nella parte bassa?
that's all the water in the world.
quella è tutta l'acqua del mondo.
those are the fresh water.
rappresentano le acque dolci.
that as the climate changes,
con il cambiamento climatico,
is changing very fundamentally.
stia cambiando radicalmente.
wrong place, wrong time.
posto sbagliato, momento sbagliato.
it's liquid where it should be frozen;
liquida dove dovrebbe essere ghiacciata;
of the ocean itself is changing.
dell'oceano sta cambiando.
from a security or a military part
di vista militare e di sicurezza,
environment that we're working in,
nel quale stiamo lavorando,
which sounds kind of fancy
che sembra una cosa sofisticata
by that in a second.
tra un secondo.
a couple examples here.
and humanitarian catastrophe
was one of the causes
sia stata una delle cause
il controllo sulla Siria,
in things like wheat and barley.
per cose come il grano e l'orzo.
in Assad's office that said,
di Assad abbia detto:
we're in the eastern Mediterranean,
nel Mediterraneo orientale,
maybe not the best idea."
forse non è una grande idea".
and handsome man. We'll get right on it."
potente e bello. Ci riusciremo".
self-sufficient in food,
per quanto riguarda il cibo,
of their surface water.
le loro acque superficiali.
many nonclimate issues
molti problemi non climatici
by that lower blue line there,
dalla linea blu in basso,
come into the cities.
arrivarono nelle città.
heat wave and drought --
di calore e siccità --
to the changing climate --
al cambiamento climatico --
of a million farmers
tre quarti di un milione di contadini
They had nothing.
Non avevano niente.
he's taking care of his people,
della sua gente,
we have just this huge issue here
enorme problema
nella comunità della sicurezza,
a risk to instability.
un rischio di instabilità.
it makes bad places worse.
peggiora i brutti posti.
or about 1,200 miles, north of Oslo,
o 1200 miglia, a nord di Oslo,
non avete mai sentito parlare.
you've never heard of.
to get out and go into warmer waters.
in acque più calde.
every single polar orbiting satellite
ogni singolo satellite polare
drasticamente il ghiaccio marino,
the sea ice around here,
Parliamentary Assembly
parlamentare della NATO
on Svalbard next month.
very unhappy about that.
a flashpoint in the Arctic,
un punto caldo nell'Artico
if not centuries,
a typhoon or strategic changes,
di un tifone o di cambiamenti strategici,
Segretario della Difesa,
he understands that as well,
l'ha capito a sua volta,
is that climate is a risk.
responses to Congress,
al Congresso
that understands this.
che lo capisce.
in other navies and other militaries
in altre marine e altri eserciti
about the climate risk.
sul rischio climatico.
to speak for a half-a-day seminar
di parlare durante un seminario
is alleged to have said,
but he's alleged to have said
ma si dice che abbia detto
be counted upon to do the right thing
per fare la cosa giusta
we're still in the process
ancora nel processo
your recycling out on Wednesday,
la raccolta differenziata il mercoledì,
with every business leader,
every government leader,
to stabilize the climate?"
per stabilizzare il clima?".
persone a cui importa,
won't lead on this issue --
non sanno farsi portavoce --
the ice doesn't care.
che al ghiaccio non interessa.
who's in the White House.
chi c'è alla Casa Bianca.
controls your congress.
controlla il congresso.
controls your parliament.
controlla il parlamento.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Titley - MeteorologistScientist and retired Navy officer Dr. David Titley asks a big question: Could the US military play a role in combating climate change?
Why you should listen
David Titley is a Professor of Practice in Meteorology and a Professor of International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the founding director of Penn State’s Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He served as a naval officer for 32 years and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Titley’s career included duties as commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command; oceanographer and navigator of the Navy; and deputy assistant chief of naval operations for information dominance. He also served as senior military assistant for the director, Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
While serving in the Pentagon, Titley initiated and led the U.S. Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change. After retiring from the Navy, Titley served as the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Operations, the chief operating officer position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Titley serves on numerous advisory boards and National Academies of Science committees, including the CNA Military Advisory Board, the Center for Climate and Security and the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Titley is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
David Titley | Speaker | TED.com