Tuesday, 30 April , 2024

Superstorms

Superstorms and the man who saw them coming

It’s sometimes forgotten, at least by those who knew in the first place, that in March 2013 the head of America’s Pacific Command, the marshal of some 328,000 personnel stationed around half the globe, told a gathering at Harvard that the top security threat in the region wasn’t Chinese aggression or North Korean nukes but global warming. Author and journalist