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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Northern Exposure Melting Arctic ice poses security threat, says Pentagon		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 May 2008 Waterways made navigable by melting Arctic ice pose a security threat to the northern U.S. border, says the Pentagon. The shrinking ice cap has led to increased interest in tourism and energy development in the Arctic, and the extra traffic makes the Pentagon wary. "The Arctic is a new area that is important to us because of the changes in ice flows," says Air Force General Gene ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, Department of Defense, national security, news (all these topics)

'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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

Fortunately, We've Got It Under Control Warming globe will have major security issues, says think tank		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:34 PM on 12 Sep 2007 The security implications of climate change resemble those of nuclear war, a security think tank said today. "Fundamental environmental issues of food, water, and energy security ultimately lie behind many present security concerns, and climate change will magnify all three," wrote the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which foresees coll ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, news (all these topics)

Climate change as national security threat Yeah or nay?	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) thinks it's silly to use intelligence resources to assess the national security implications of climate change, or as he calls it, the 'bugs and bunnies.' Meanwhile, Michael McConnell -- the U.S. Director of National Intelligence -- thinks it's 'entirely appropriate.' Who to trust?
Topics: national security, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

War and global warming Between Iraq and a hard place	Gar Lipow	11 May 2007	Gristmill
I wonder how many people realize that the chances of nuclear war did not fall significantly with the end of the Cold War. A deliberate nuclear war, while a real risk, was always the outside chance. The worst danger -- an accidental nuclear launch -- is probably more likely today than it was prior to the fall of the Soviet empire. Neither the U.S. nor Russia have taken their missiles off hair trigger alert, and Russia's command and control system is deteriorating. When ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, international politics, national security (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics)

Oh, It's Unparalleled All Right U.S. claims emissions-reduction success, U.N. Security Council debates climate		17 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Oh, It's Unparalleled All Right U.S. claims emissions-reduction success, U.N. Security Council debates climate Today, for the first time ever, the U.N. Security Council will take up the topic of climate change and world security. "The security implications of climate changes are bigger than we thought even two or three years ago," says John Ashton, a cl ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, national security, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Calling All Hawks New report says climate change is a threat to U.S. security		16 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Calling All Hawks New report says climate change is a threat to U.S. security A government-funded report issued today by a group of retired U.S. generals and admirals says global warming is a security risk. The Military Advisory Board says climate change "can act as a threat multiplier," with severe weather and drought leading to mass migrations, battles over food and water, and the sprea ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, news (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics)

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