Editorial: Climate Security, Err … National Change

Sep 23, 2016 | Tim Wiederaenders
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The White House on Wednesday published a presidential memorandum setting up a timetable for more than 20 federal agencies to come up with a plan to put climate science into action when it comes to national security.

According to a national security-oriented blog, New Security Beat, this the first unclassified report from the U.S. intelligence community that explicitly looks at the impact of climate change on national security. It indicates that climate change is not a distant future problem, but something that requires planning here and now.

Specifically, the report states that “the effects resulting from changing trends in extreme weather events suggest that climate-related disruptions are under way.”