The Pentagon aims to bridge the divide between climate believers and deniers
Marines board the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima to provide disaster relief and humanitarian aid to Haiti following Hurricane Matthew in fall of 2016. (U.S. Navy/ Petty Officer 2nd Class Hunter S. Harwell, CC BY/)Michael Klare is a professor emeritus and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. This story originally featured on The Conversation.As experts warn that the world is running out of time to head off severe climate change, discussions of what the U.S. should do about it are split into opposing camps. The scientific-environmental perspective says global warming will cause the planet severe harm without action to slow fossil fuel burning. Those who reject mainstream climate science insist either that warming is not occurring or that it’s not clear human actions are driving it.With these two extremes polarizing the American political arena, climate policy has come to a...