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Climate change and Indian Security
9 hours ago ago from Climate Change Media Partnership 2009
Rapid climate change will have a huge impact various matters of national security. It will change battlefields in the Himalayas, cause conflicts over water resources and make food and energy harder to find.
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9 hours ago ago from The New Security Beat
Climate and security is under discussion today in Copenhagen with the Danish government's side event bringing together a range of heavyweights including NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, African Union Chair Jean Ping, and Danish Foreign Minister Peter Stig Møller. Fogh Rasmussen, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, put his remarks out there the new-fashioned way with a piece on Huffington ...
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21 hours ago ago from Wend Magazine - Greenery
According to NPR , climate change will be included in the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. Basically, this means that global warming is now viewed as a threat to our national security. However, this doesn't mean that the CIA and the Pentagon are taking a side on the issue of climate change, it just means they want to be ready for it. NPR reports: I always look at the worst case,' says one senior intelligence official who ...
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22 hours ago ago from Res Communis
By Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty Source: National Public Radio By Tom Gjelten December 14, 2009 Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security. For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years. ...
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Andrew Guzman: The True Costs of Climate Change
3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss possible responses to climate change, debate continues within the United States about what this country's role in fighting global warming should be. Underlying the entire debate is the question of what we are prepared to pay to reduce our own emissions. Before we decide how much we're willing to spend to mitigate climate change, we need to know what it will cost if we don't. The conventional ...
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21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Despite climate deniers attempts to slow progress with the brouhaha, the rest of us are hoping the negotiators in Copenhagen will come up with some kind of road map that will lead to positive change. But even under the best outcomes, the focus in Copenhagen will be on emissions, not on how to ensure our life-giving water resources are protected. To ensure the majority of the world s population can adapt to a changing climate, we ll need to ...
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53 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Delegates to the Copenhagen Climate Summit are leaving us high and dry. Or possibly low and wet. As part of their effort to achieve consensus, they have decided to delete water issues from their draft policy. This approach is, at best, misguided. By leaving out the most fundamental element of climate change, they are deciding to court failure. Got Drought? The effects of climate change are all about water. When greenhouse gasses cause our ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Some may wonder why NATO would be interested in climate change. To me, this is a bit like asking why a person would be interested in a change in gravity. While gravity does not dictate what you choose to do at any given moment, it does tend to push all your choices in a common direction -- down. In a similar way, I venture, while climate change will not dictate what some nation-states choose to do, it will push them in a common direction: ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
ReThink the Implicit is a new, installation-based exhibit at the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. In honor of the United Nations Climate Summit, six artists have prepared installations that they hope will cause the audience to question their perceptions of and relationship with the natural world. The Den Frie Center explains that the title refers to "how global crises such as climate change cause a shift in the way we ...
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