A story today in the New York Times, indicates that the impacts of climate change on security and global stability are becoming a central part of the Obama administration’s policy discussions. While changing climate has been a part of Pentagon planning for some time it will become an increasing part of their focus under this administration, with a planned climate section in the Quadrennial Defense Review that is due in mid-February.
If the United States does not lead the world in reducing fossil-fuel consumption and thus emissions of global warming gases, proponents of this view say, a series of global environmental, social, political and possibly military crises loom that the nation will urgently have to address.
