British armed forces chief: climate change could fuel conflict and terror.

AP: “Climate change will increase competition for scarce resources and plunge many into desperate poverty, fanning conflict and terrorism across the world, Britain’s army chief said in comments released by the Defense Ministry on Tuesday.” “Rising temperatures, flooding, and desertification were likely to hit some of the most unstable parts of the globe the hardest, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup told a conference on climate change at London’s Chatham House think tank on Monday. ….”It seem to me rather like pouring petrol onto a burning fire”.”