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Obama: Climate change poses immediate risk to national security
2015-05-20 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Barack Obama had a strong message for graduates of the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut on Wednesday, and all the rest of us too: Global warming is a major security threat. During a commencement address at the academy, he linked changes in the climate to volatility and violence in the Middle East, and warned that global warming to undermine military readiness. He said military forces must adapt and prepare for the kinds of changes we`re already starting to see, but "such preparation...
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Obama: Climate change deniers endangering national security
2015-05-20 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama in a speech on Wednesday cast climate change as a growing national security threat, accusing Republican skeptics of harming military readiness by denying its effects. Obama argued in his address to graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that rising sea levels and higher global temperatures endanger military bases and could force personnel to respond to conflicts around the world that are fueled by their effects. Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security,...
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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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