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Obama: Climate change national security issue
2015-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Military Times: President Barack Obama will use his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday to label climate change as a threat to military readiness and infrastructure, not merely an environmental danger. The move comes as the White House releases a new report on the national security implications of warmer global temperatures and melting polar ice, arguing that a rise in natural disasters will put more strain on National Guard emergency response efforts and potentially endanger thousands...
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In Coast Guard Commencement, Pres. Obama to Link Climate Change to National Security
2015-05-20 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama warned Wednesday that climate change is a growing and "serious threat" to national security, tying severe weather to the rise of Boko Haram and the civil war in Syria. In his latest bid to turn up political pressure on Republicans over the environment, Obama challenged 218 graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to take the threats of climate as serious as they would a ship in peril on the seas. "You dont sit back; you take steps to protect your ship," Obama said. "Anything...
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Obama frames global warming as national security threat
2015-05-20 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is framing the challenges of climate change as a matter of national security that threatens to aggravate poverty and political instability around the globe and jeopardize the readiness of U.S. forces. "Make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country," the president says in excerpts of a commencement address prepared for delivery Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. "And so we need to act and we need to act now." The president...
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Obama tells Coast Guard grads climate change menaces US
2015-05-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising seas and thawing permafrost caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. In a commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy, Obama underscored the risks to national security posed by climate change, one of his top priorities for action in his remaining 19 months in office. "The threat of a changing climate cuts to the very core of your service,"...
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Time is running out slow climate change, Obama tells Coast Guard grads
2015-05-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama delivered a somber lecture on the science of climate change to the graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday as argued that global warning poses a threat to national security. Obama's call to cut carbon emissions, which emphasized the impact that Arctic ice melt would have on the Coast Guard, came just over a week after he opened Alaska's Arctic Coast to oil drilling -- and about seven months ahead of a United Nations summit in Paris at which the president...
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