Pakistan Floods "a Case Study of a Climate Disaster" Showing Need to Slow...
"What is happening in Pakistan cannot be described in a single word – like disaster or catastrophe," says Professor Richard Rood of the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and...
View ArticleVideos: Climate Change and National Security
In two recent videos from Peter Sinclair, intelligence and military experts discuss the security threat of a changing climate. The recent floods in Pakistan reinforce the concerns voiced in the...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Events Illustrate Heavy Price to be Paid for Failure to Act...
Opponents of clean energy and climate change legislation often highlight the price tag for limiting fossil fuel pollution, calling the cost too great. However, the costs of reducing emissions will be...
View ArticleVideo Highlights Pakistan Flood Impacts
Pakistan’s U.S. Ambassador, Husain Haqqani, stated at a recent Congressional briefing: “While the debate about climate change and global warming continues in the world, we in Pakistan are living...
View ArticlePakistan Flood Provides Warning for Growing Climate Disasters
A new report released from Refugee International addresses the rising threat of climate change on vulnerable countries and populations. The report draws from the Pakistan flood as an example of the...
View ArticleDespite Emerging Climate Change Impacts in Developing Countries, House...
As the impacts of climate change increasingly loom around the world, threatening regions of strategic importance to the U.S., House Republicans are likely to walk away from the problem. They appear...
View ArticleInstability and Food Insecurity Linked to Climate Change, Says UN Official
The top United Nations climate change official spoke Tuesday (15 Feb. 2011) on the link between a changing climate and growing political instability relating to food and water supplies. Extreme weather...
View ArticleU.S. National Research Council: Climate Change Impacts "Call for Action by...
In National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces, the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) warned yesterday (10 March 2011) that “even the most moderate predicted trends in...
View ArticleVideo: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says "Climate Change’s Potential...
Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed the global security environment on 1 April 2011 at the annual Rostov Lecture at Johns Hopkins University’s...
View ArticlePay Now, Pay Later: A State-by-State Assessment of the Costs of Climate Change
The American Security Project on 19 April 2011 released a series of 50 reports -- one for each state -- on the economic consequences of not sharply curbing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing the pace...
View ArticleWhite House Reports on Climate Change Adaptation, as Communities Face Rising...
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Friday (28 October 2011) released a second annual progress report from the government’s...
View ArticleIPCC Says Essential Actions Needed to Reduce Risks of Changing Climate Extremes
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved on Friday (18 Nov 2011) a report on preparing for weather and climate extremes. The report’s summary warns that a changing climate “can...
View Article13th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Disasters...
Event Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (All day) - Thursday, January 17, 2013 (All day) Event Location: Washington, DC "On January 15-17, 2013, join over 1,200 leaders from the emergency response,...
View ArticleU.S. Unveils Arctic Strategy while Announcing that Atmospheric Concentrations...
The White House on Friday (10 May 2013) released a National Strategy for the Arctic Region, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that daily average atmospheric...
View ArticleWWF Climate Blog Has Moved to New Location
The WWF climate blog now is located at a different Web address: worldwildlife.org/blogs/wwf-climate-blog. All posts since May 2013 are at that location, while older posts will remain archived on this...
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