David Titley: How the military fights climate change
大卫·蒂特利: 军队如何对抗气候变化
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
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about climate and change,
and not polar bears.
而不是北极熊。
that we lived in in the mid-2000s.
for the Navy's weather and ocean service.
当首席运营官。
called Stennis Space Center
一个叫维乌兰德的小镇,
called Waveland, Mississippi,
它经历了风暴潮。
it's up against a storm surge.
storm surge does
this is, like, right after Katrina --
这是在卡特里娜飓风过境之后,
up there in the railway tracks,
in the Gulf of Mexico,
we really, we lost our house.
the luckiest people on the Gulf Coast.
我们已经是墨西哥湾沿岸最幸运的人了。
is probably pretty important there.
you know, what happened here?
because as you've heard,
to do something like this.
都可以造成这样大的伤害。
and kind of look at this.
climate's really complicated,
it's all about the water.
there down on the lower part?
that's all the water in the world.
those are the fresh water.
that as the climate changes,
is changing very fundamentally.
wrong place, wrong time.
要么地点不对,要么时间不对。
it's liquid where it should be frozen;
本该是冻结的,融化了,
of the ocean itself is changing.
化学成分也在变化。
from a security or a military part
environment that we're working in,
which sounds kind of fancy
这个听起来有点高深,
by that in a second.
a couple examples here.
and humanitarian catastrophe
was one of the causes
in things like wheat and barley.
in Assad's office that said,
we're in the eastern Mediterranean,
maybe not the best idea."
and handsome man. We'll get right on it."
我们立刻去办。”
self-sufficient in food,
of their surface water.
many nonclimate issues
by that lower blue line there,
come into the cities.
heat wave and drought --
to the changing climate --
of a million farmers
They had nothing.
he's taking care of his people,
他可不关照他的子民,
we have just this huge issue here
出现了很多大问题,
a risk to instability.
it makes bad places worse.
or about 1,200 miles, north of Oslo,
或者说1200英里的地方,
you've never heard of.
而你可能从未听说过。
to get out and go into warmer waters.
温暖海域,必须经过这里。
every single polar orbiting satellite
每一颗极地轨道卫星
the sea ice around here,
那里的海冰,
Parliamentary Assembly
on Svalbard next month.
very unhappy about that.
a flashpoint in the Arctic,
if not centuries,
我们就已经明白,
a typhoon or strategic changes,
he understands that as well,
is that climate is a risk.
responses to Congress,
that understands this.
in other navies and other militaries
许多朋友和盟友
about the climate risk.
to speak for a half-a-day seminar
一次为期半天的研讨会,
is alleged to have said,
but he's alleged to have said
但据说是这样,
be counted upon to do the right thing
其他所有的可能性之后,
we're still in the process
your recycling out on Wednesday,
在周三交出可回收物品,
with every business leader,
去游说每一位商业领袖,
every government leader,
每一位政府首脑,
to stabilize the climate?"
won't lead on this issue --
the ice doesn't care.
who's in the White House.
controls your congress.
controls your parliament.
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.
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