Climate change could be politically destabalizing

As if they didn't have enough to do diagnosing Iranian nuclear ambitions, American intelligence officials have also been busy investigating how climate change might effect national security. Their findings will be displayed before a House committee on Wednesday, but here's the gist: climate change is a 'threat multiplier' and might very well exacerbate tensions in world trouble spots; it could even create entirely new conflicts. The focus is on extreme weather events, which threaten infrastructure. An apt simile from an unnamed source: "It's like a match to the tinder."