U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dave Titley observes operations in the Beaufort Sea on the deck of the ice breaker USCGC Healy (WAGB-20). U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Laura-Michel Dehaan.

We recently scheduled a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dave Titley, Oceanographer of the Navy and director of the Navy’s Task Force Climate Change, for Friday, June 18 at 12:00 EDT.

During the roundtable, Titley discussed, “Should Navy be making investments related to climate change in a fiscally-constrained environment?”

Titley  also discussed this complex issue and the way ahead for the Navy. The changing climate of the planet will, at some level, impact virtually every nation as this century progresses. Those nations that have planned for the affects and can adapt to environmental change will be ahead of the game, while nations that are less prepared and less capable of adaptation will be more vulnerable to resource challenges and destabilization.

For the DoD, environmental change has the potential to impact both national security and military readiness.  But the uncertainty of the timeline and character of that change, and the fiscal challenges that current face the Defense Department, make it difficult to determine what investments should be made to ensure we are prepared to meet mission requirements throughout the century.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov article: “Navy Official Discusses Climate Change Investment Strategy”

Joining us on the call were Thomas Goering, Navy Cyberspace;  Dale Kissinger, Military Avenue; Sandra Erwin, National Defense Magazine; Katie Drummond, Wired.com; John McCandless, Navy Blog Log; Sharon Weinberger, Wired.com; and Beth Wilson of Home Front in Focus.