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Pentagon, CIA Eye New Threat: Climate Change

By Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty

Source: National Public Radio

By Tom Gjelten

December 14, 2009

Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security.

For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years.

The reference to climate change follows the establishment in October of a new Center for the Study of Climate Change at the Central Intelligence Agency. More…