The Pentagon’s best chance at guaranteeing properly informed decision-making in the face of climate threats would come from creating a “climate planning cell” to provide “situational awareness, modeling and decision-support,” according to a new Defense Science Board report . The board notes that DOD has “no single entity” to direct the “baseline activity to understand and anticipate the impacts of climate change at the regional scale.” The new climate planning cell “would allow the DOD to anticipate future instability and...
