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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND national security AND politics
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'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change'
New report examines the impact of climate change on national security |
Joseph Romm |
06 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| John Podesta and Peter Ogden of the Center for American Progress have written a chapter titled 'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change,' for a report called 'The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.' They describe their work as follows: During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other specialists has met ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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More on climate and national security
The hits keep on comin' |
Joseph Romm |
09 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Senate Foreign Relations Testimony on the grave threat to our nation's security posed by global warming: Admiral Joseph W. Prueher (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command and Former Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China; General Charles F. Wald (PDF), USAF (Ret.), Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; and Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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U.S. military steps it up
Maybe the Pentagon can persuade red-staters |
JMG |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The military -- which tends to insist on operating in a reality-based world, as a matter of self-preservation -- thinks global heating is a big threat. A bit from the story: Today, 11 retired senior generals issued a report drawing attention to the ability of climate change to act as a 'threat multiplier' in unstable parts of the world. The Army's former chief of staff, Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, who is one of the authors, noted he had been 'a little bit of a skeptic' when t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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The Warm on Terror
Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Apr 2007 |
Muckraker |
| How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity, and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? Is climate change the real ticking bomb? Photo: iStockphoto No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) think it's time to f ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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