Pentagon Unveils Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap

By Tony Bertuca / October 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM
The Defense Department has released its new Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, the latest in a series of indicators signaling the military continues to view changing weather conditions as a threat to the global security environment. "Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change," the roadmap states. "Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. They will likely lead...

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