Pentagon Adopts Global Warming As Priority Enemy

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The Pentagon released a report Monday 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 response as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises.
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the broadened approach would include considering the role that climate change might have played in contributing to the rise of terrorist entities like the Islamic State.
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CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board, concluded that climate change was becoming a catalyst of global conflict. In March, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the agency’s main public document describing the current doctrine of the United States military, drew a direct link between the effects of global warming and terrorism.

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Pentagon Says Global Warming Presents Immediate Security Threat
By CORAL DAVENPORT

OCT. 13, 2014