U.S. Military Policy: Resource Guide

U.S. Military / Climate Change / News

Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us (Common Dreams News Center) February 22, 2004

Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security (The New York Times) August 9, 2009

Department of Defense: Quadrennial Defense Review Report (Council of Foreign Relations) March 11, 2014

US Military: Climate Change is a Key Security Issue (Sustainable Technology Forum) February 2, 2010

US Military Warned to Prepare for Consequences of Climate Change (The Guardian) September 9, 2012

U.S. National Strategy for the Artic Region (Council on Foreign Relations) May 10, 2013

Department of Defense: Arctic Strategy (Council on Foreign Relations) November 1, 2013

Climate Change Deemed Growing National Security Threat by Military Researchers (New York Times) May 13, 2014

Four-Star Warning: Generals dub Climate Change a Security Risk (NBC News) May 13, 2014

Report: Climate Change Poses Security Threat (Military.com) May 14, 2014

The age of climate warfare is here. The military-industrial complex is ready. Are you? (The Guardian) May 30, 2014

Climate Change Threatens National Security: This issue is about science, not politics, and the military is taking it very seriously (Pittsburg Post-Gazette) July 5, 2014

U.S. Department of Defense: Secretary Hagel’s remarks at the Conference of the Defense Ministers of the Americas (DoD) October 13, 2014

Council on Foreign Relations: Department of Defense: Climate Change Adaption Roadmap 2014 (Council of Foreign Relations) October 13, 2014

Climate Change Brings New Military Challenges as New Changing World Spurs Competition (Huffington Post) October 13, 2014

Military: Climate Change makes US more Vulnerable (USA Today) October 14, 2014

Pentagon Report: US military considers climate change a ‘threat multiplier’ that could exacerbate terrorism (Newsweek) October 14, 2014

The pentagon’s War on the Global Climate: Obama’s foolish green agenda interferes with the military’s core mission (Washington Times) October 20, 2014

Department of Defense Plans for Adaption in Light of Climate Change (Chemical and Engineering News) October 20, 2014

The Military Takes on Climate Change Deniers (Politics/Policy) October 27-November 2, 2014

Pentagon Says Climate Change a Security Risk (TCE News) November 2014

Climate Change Helped Fuel the Syrian Conflict, new paper finds (Huffington Post) February 3, 2015

Climate Change is Major Threat to Readiness, expert says (Army Times) September 23, 2015

National Security and Foreign Policy Leaders Warn of Climate Change Threat, Call for U.S. Leadership (Partnership for Secure America) October 22, 2015

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Fight Climate Change for Global Stability, say US defense and diplomacy elite (The Guardian) October 22, 2015