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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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Climate Change Preparation
2014-10-14 00:55:02| PortlandOnline
Building and protecting our infrastructure in a changing climate
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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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When climate change comes after even the most common species
2014-10-13 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: At the crack of dawn on an early winter morning, Double Gs restaurant in Paducah, Texas, would typically be bustling with hunters loading up on sausage, eggs and black coffee before they head out into the grasslands with their shotguns and pointing dogs. Some come to hunt deer, turkey and wild hogs. But most of them come to hunt the northern bobwhite quail. Smaller than a game hen, the dappled reddish-brown bird is as integral to the Lone Star States culture and economy as rodeos and oil rigs....
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