Credit: AP / Gerald Herbert
Ten days removed from the presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump has finally begun filling out his team, releasing a slew of offers for various high-level positions, from CIA director and attorney general to national security advisor.
Unlike the Departments of State or the Interior, these posts have less of a direct impact on domestic and international climate and energy policy. But climate change is a problem that permeates all policy realms — especially national security.
The Department of Defense has called climate change a “threat multiplier,” noting that it has the potential to exacerbate conflict and threaten national security. And in September, 25 military and national security experts — including former advisers to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush — issued a report warning that climate change poses a “significant risk to U.S. national security and international security.” Middle East experts have suggested that the Syrian civil war is […]
G’day Stephan, as the Kiwis say, 🙂
I found three separate news media running this story, but unfortunately as/usual, it was buried by two and not “above the fold”. The National Post is Canada’s far right newspaper, formerly owned and controlled by the now publicly humiliated and disgraced Conrad Black.
36 degrees F rise in temperature @ the North Pole.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/17/the-north-pole-is-an-insane-36-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends/?utm_term=.6e027a8ece2e
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/north-pole-20-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/north-pole-now-death-spiral
Methinks ‘Houston, we have a problem’, is the understatement of human history.
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John Otvos
The link to the full article has been corrected.