[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: CNA's latest report on Climate Security

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
CNA
May 14, 2014

National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change

As a follow-up to its landmark 2007 study on climate and national  
security, the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board's National  
Security and the Accelerating Risks of  Climate Change (PDF)re- 
examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in  
the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world.

The Board’s 2007 report described projected climate change as a  
"threat multiplier." In this report the 16 retired Generals and  
Admirals who make up the board look at new vulnerabilities and  
tensions posed by climate change, which, when set against the  
backdrop of increasingly decentralized power structures around the  
world, they now identify as a "catalyst for conflict."

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For the entire release and a link to the full report, see
http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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