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DoD Report Outlines Security Risks of Global Warming

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

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DoD Report Outlines Security Risks of Global Warming

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The political battle over whether humans are causing climate change – and whether the climate is changing at all – is far from settled, but the Defense Department is already planning for the worst effects of a warming planet.The Defense Department on July 28 published a report on the security implications of climate change, which said combatant commanders already are seeing the impact of climate change in “shocks and stressors to vulnerable nations and communities” on every continent except Antarctica,…

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