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Pentagon Addresses Climate Change, Calls It A 'Threat Multiplier'
2014-10-14 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Tribune: Referring to climate change as a threat multiplier, United State Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday that rising global temperaturesclimbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events could compound security challenges faced by the U.S. military. His remarks were included in the foreword to a report released by the Pentagon on Monday. In the report, titled Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, Hagel said that uncertainty in climate change projections cannot be an excuse for delaying...
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Pentagon Signals Security Risks Climate Change
2014-10-14 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises. The report lays out a road map to show how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department...
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Pentagon: global warming will change how US military trains & goes to war
2014-10-14 00:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global warming is changing the way the US trains for and goes to war affecting war games, weapons systems, training exercises, and military installations according to the Pentagon. The defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, will tell a high-level meeting of military leaders on Monday that the Pentagon is undertaking sweeping changes to operation systems and installations to keep up with a growing threat of rising seas, droughts, and natural disasters caused by climate change. A changing climate...
Pentagon: Climate Change Poses Immediate Risks
2014-10-14 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Department of Defense sees climate change as an "immediate' risk and is taking steps to assess those risk and respond to them according to its newly unveiled Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. The document, released on Monday, is an update to the agency's first climate roadmap released in 2012. But rather than being a slight tweak, it provides a major overhaul of how the military views the challenges that climate change poses in the near- and long-term to its training, operations, supply chains...
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Pentagon: Climate change 'immediate' national security risk
2014-10-13 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Rising global temperatures, rapidly melting arctic ice and other effects of climate change are posing immediate risks to US national security and military and humanitarian operations, the Pentagon warned Monday. In a comprehensive report billed as a roadmap for adapting to climate change, the Defense Department said it has begun to boost its "resilience" and ensure mission readiness is not compromised in the face of rising sea levels, increasing regularity of natural disasters, and food and water...
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