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Pentagon Unveils Strategy for Adapting Global Warming Threats

2014-10-13 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mashable: The Defense Department sees global warming as a challenge that "poses immediate risks" to national security, rather than one that will rear its head only in the future. This shift in thinking comes as the sprawling department puts in place a wide range of measures to ensure that its bases do not sink below the sea as the oceans rise, that its weapons systems still work in a variety of extreme weather conditions, and that it is prepared to deal with increased demands for humanitarian assistance...

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Pentagon: Climate change a national security threat

2014-10-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: The Pentagon is integrating climate change threats into all of its "plans, operations, and training" across the entire Defense Department, signaling a comprehensive attempt to tackle the impacts of global warming. In a 20-page Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap released on Monday, the Pentagon details its strategic blueprint to address climate change, calling it a "threat multiplier" that has the power to "exacerbate" many of the challenges the U.S. faces today, including "infectious diseases and...

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Pentagon says it's near a fix on engine problem that grounded F-35 fleet

2014-09-04 16:31:00| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Pentagon officials said they are close to having a fix for the engine that powers the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet.

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Pentagon says no F-35 at Farnborough

2014-07-15 22:27:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The Pentagon says the F-35 combat jet - due to be used on the UK's new aircraft carriers - will not go to the Farnborough Airshow because of continuing inspections.

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Pentagon to Escalate Global Warming Preparation

2014-06-30 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

U.S. News and World Report: Time to put some milestones on the Roadmap. Whether from rising seas, eroding coasts, thawing permafrost or worsening wildfires, American military installations across the world are in the line of fire from climate change, the Government Accountability Office and the Department of Defense have found. Thawing permafrost, melting sea ice, and rising sea levels along the Alaskan shore has eroded the coastline near a Defense Department early warning radar site. Following up on a 2012 Climate...

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