Climate Change Is a National Security Issue According to Obama

President Obama has recently instructed all federal departments and agencies to consider the impact of climate change on national security.

"Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to national security, both at home and abroad," the memo says. Those threats, according to Obama, include flooding, drought, heat waves, intense precipitation, pest outbreaks, disease, and electricity problems, all of which can "affect economic prosperity, public health and safety, and international stability."

According to Obama, those anticipated climate change issues could unfavorably affect military readiness; negatively affect military facilities and training; increase demands for federal support to civil defense authorities; as well as increase the need to maintain international stability and provide humanitarian assistance needs.

Additionally, Obama has directed his national security and science/technology chiefs to chair an interagency working group to study climate-related impacts on national security and develop plans to deal with those impacts.

Also, among other things, this bureaucratic working group will "develop recommendations for climate and social science data...that support or should be considered in the development of national security doctrine, policy, and plans."

The working group has been given 90 days to develop an action plan, which must include "specific objectives, milestones, timelines, and identification of agencies responsible for completion of all actions described therein."

And the working group has 150 days to "develop implementation plans" for the action plans.

Read more, at: www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/

Source: www.cnsnews.com

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