Everything Erin Sikorsky said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sikorsky: DoD examines climate risk regardless of political environment
“So it certainly has been part of the conversation within the Department of Defense, irrespective of the broader political environment.”
Sikorsky: Physical climate risks are predictable, but human responses are not
“You know, you can predict with fairly high confidence at certain temperature levels what the physical risks will be on the planet, right, from climate change, sea level rise, extreme weather events temperatures, heat waves, but what you can't predict as much i…”
Sikorsky: Army climate strategy sets a model for other military services
“And I was impressed with the level of detail of the ambition of some of the provisions, a microgrid on every army installation and base a move to all electric non-tactical vehicles by, I believe, twenty-twenty-seven, making sure to hire people at the headquart…”
Sikorsky: Intelligence agencies must integrate climate expertise into core work
“Really we're in a different place where the intelligence community needs to bring in those climate scientists, not to share what the IC knows about the world, but what those climate scientists know about how the world is changing and help the intelligence comm…”
Sikorsky: California National Guard faces exponentially more wildfire deployments today
“The National Guard, right, in California is responding to Exponentially more fire days every year than they did 10 or 20 years ago in having to interrupt their training and evacuate bases and turn to protecting the homeland from these climate risks.”
Sikorsky: Trump's National Defense Strategy omitted climate change
“When you look at the national defense strategy that was released under President Trump, there is no mention directly of climate change in that national defense strategy.”
Sikorsky: Mattis raised climate security concerns in Congress under Trump
“Secretary of Defense James Mattis under, under President Trump, when he testified before Congress, talked about concerns about climate security risks.”
Sikorsky: Secretary Austin named China, COVID, and climate his top three issues
“You have Secretary Austin saying that his three main issues are China, COVID, and climate.”
Sikorsky: Climate shocks in the Sahel accelerate extremist recruitment
“I think also in places like the Sahel in West Africa, where we've seen climate change drive conflict patterns there, drive the ability of terrorist and extremist groups to recruit more easily as governments are not able to help manage the shocks.”
Sikorsky: Predictive climate models offer security community 5-to-15-year threat foresight
“With climate, I mean, we have models that will show us five, 10, 15 years down the road at different temperature levels, what to expect. And so those predictive capabilities are a huge power that we have and tool for us to use in, in the security community.”
Sikorsky: CIA shared satellite imagery with climate scientists in the 1990s
“In the nineties, the intelligence community stood up a program, ah, called Medea, which was meant to link climate scientists with the CIA and with satellite imagery collection, so that climate scientists could use that imagery to make historical assessments of…”
Sikorsky: 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review called climate change a threat multiplier
“So the Quadrennial Defense Review in 2010 included the term threat multiplier, and really from there since then, DOD has continued to deepen and expand its work on, on climate change.”
Sikorsky: Emissions mitigation targets are the newest element in Army strategy
“Yeah, I think a lot of the ambition around mitigation or cutting emissions is, is new. And obviously, given the size of the Defense Department, again, they're a key actor in, in catalyzing that change. And so that I think was the newest piece in, in the Army s…”
Sikorsky: Melting Arctic ice creates major military challenges against Russia
“As the ice is melting in the Arctic and opening up new access to either commercial waterways or access to minerals and resources, that's a huge challenge for the U.S. Military as Russia seeks to gain access.”