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...