Warning Prompts Call For Fine-Tuned U.S.

The scientific community has U.S. Navy submarine operations and data to thank for a truer picture of how climate change is affecting the world’s polar regions.

Now, though, the service needs to tweak its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) methods to better prepare for the effects of the climatic changes in those regions, according to a National Academies report released on Thursday, “National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces.”

“Open access to previously classified Navy data and to other Department of Defense assets,” the report notes, “have enabled advances in climate change research that have benefited the scientific community studying climate change.

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