NATO chief says promoting climate change agenda will help ensure security for alliance
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The Washington Times ^
| December 1, 2023 | Mike Glenn
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said the alliance must focus on climate change even as it contends with fortifying its defenses against aggression from the Kremlin. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, Mr. Stoltenberg said a clear link exists between a nation’s security and climate change, which he called
a “crisis multiplier.” “It forces people to move. Migratory flows are increasing because of climate change. But it also increases competition for scarce resources,” Mr. Stoltenberg said. “In that way, climate change is actually fueling conflict, and conflict matters for NATO and for our security.”
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Climate change withering China’s food security
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Asia Times ^
Extreme rainfall responsible for an 8% fall in rice crop yields over past two decades, exacerbating food insecurity concerns Over the past four decades, China has made significant achievements in maintaining food security through institutional reforms, technological progress and increased investment in public agricultural infrastructure. Between
1978 and 2022, the total quantity of agricultural output grew at the rate of 4.5% per year — more than four times the population growth over the same period. In 2022, China’s total grain output reached a historical high of 686.53 million tonnes, substantially boosting its domestic food supply. But China still faces considerable...
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Pentagon Officials Worked To Finalize Climate Plan During Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Emails Show...Biden admin worked on document declaring climate change a top national security risk as Kabul crumbled
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Daily Wire ^
| • Aug 30, 2023 | By Brent Scher
Photo by MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images In the midst of the Biden administration’s disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials were working to get the Secretary of Defense to sign a major climate change initiative, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire. In the two weeks between the
fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, and the final U.S. military flight out of Afghanistan on August 30, Pentagon officials were scrambling with the White House to finalize the Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan, a document that declares climate change a major national...
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Army Releases Climate Change plan: ‘Immediate threat to national security’ [mega barf]
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American Military News ^
| 10/07/2022 | Liz George
The U.S. Army released its new plan to tackle climate change, which the service claims “poses an immediate and serious threat to U.S. national security and affects how and where the Army trains and operates.” The
new “Army Climate Strategy” (ACS) Implementation Plan states that the Army must do more than just “adapt” to climate change because “dangerous levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) have already accumulated in the Earth’s atmosphere.” The service must instead work to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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The UK Is Prioritizing Energy Security Over Climate Pledges
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Zubu Brothers ^
| 6-18-2022 | Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com
◾The UK is prioritizing its energy security over its climate pledges with support for ongoing oil and gas operations. ◾Despite
previous plans to end coal production by 2024, the UK government appears to be going back on its pledges. ◾In the face of rising consumer energy prices, which have sent many into fuel poverty, Johnson says that North Sea oil will be vital in tackling the cost of living. The U.K. appears to be doing a 180 on its climate promises, as the government shows significant support for ongoing oil and gas operations and several new fossil fuel projects. Despite...
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Opinion: Why climate action holds the key to German security
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Deutsche Welle ^
| April 16, 2022 | By Sherri Goodman
Sheltering from air raid sirens in Kyiv last month, Ukrainian meteorologist Svitlana Krakovska said what we all know: climate change and the war on Ukraine are both rooted in fossil fuels, and our dependence on them. This
conflict is hastening a difficult but crucial transition for Germany. In recent years, it has made significant strides in recognizing climate's links with national security. This alone has not freed the country from the tether of Russian oil and gas. The shocking force of Russia's invasion, financed by its grip on the world fossil fuel market, shows that Germany's national security depends on...
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Investors Urge Governments Not to Ditch Climate for Energy Security
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Reuters via US News ^
| April 8, 2022 | By Simon Jessop
LONDON (Reuters) - Asset owners managing more than $10.4 trillion have urged governments not to let worries about security of fossil fuel supplies impede the transition to greener energy needed to limit catastrophic climate change. With
governments scrambling to replace Russian oil and gas supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, United Nations climate scientists issued new warnings this week on the need to quickly scale up renewable energy and roll back support for emissions-intensive fossil fuels. The Steering Group of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, which counts some of the world's largest pension schemes and insurers as members, said on...
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Outlines First Whole-of-Government Strategy to Protect Consumers, Financial Stability, National Security, and Address Climate Risks
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White House ^
| Today | White House
Outlines First Whole-of-Government Strategy to Protect Consumers, Financial Stability, National Security, and Address Climate Risks Digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, have seen explosive growth in recent years, surpassing a $3 trillion market cap last November and up from $14 billion just five years prior. Surveys
suggest that around 16 percent of adult Americans – approximately 40 million people – have invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrencies. Over 100 countries are exploring or piloting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a digital form of a country’s sovereign currency. The rise in digital assets creates an opportunity to reinforce American leadership in the global...
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SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN: Opinion: To improve national security, we must build on measures addressing climate change
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Stars and Stripes ^
| February 15, 2022 | BY SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The effects of climate change are well understood: rising sea levels, severe weather, devastating wildfires and crippling drought, to name a few. We
also know the consequences: increased mortality, damage to infrastructure, food supply interruptions and economic hardship. But one implication of climate change is often overlooked: threats to our national security. In a stark assessment last fall, the National Intelligence Council said climate change will intensify risks to U.S. national security interests over the next two decades as physical effects of a warming climate mount and geopolitical tensions multiply about how to respond. And last week the U.S. Army...
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Russia Vetoes Attempt to Link Climate Change to UN Security Council’s ‘Peace and Security’ Mandate
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https :// www . cnsnews . com / article / international / patrick - goodenough / russia - vetoes - attempt - link - climate - change - un - security ^
"An attempt by the U.N. Security Council to pass what would have been the first-ever standalone resolution linking climate change and the council’s primary mandate of maintaining international peace and security was torpedoed Monday by Russia. Russia used its veto power to kill the resolution drafted by Ireland and Niger. India also
voted “no” while China abstained. ..."
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Russia Vetoes UN Resolution To Recognize "Climate Change" As A Threat To Global Security
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Disclose TV via Twitter ^
| 12/13/21 | Disclose TV
JUST IN - Russia vetoes UN resolution to recognize "climate change" as a threat to global security. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/14
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Pentagon Spokesman Says Climate Change Is As Big A National Security Threat As China
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The Federalist ^
| November 16, 2021 | John Lucas
The Biden administration’s refusal to distinguish between our principal military adversary and climate change is yet more evidence that the military is following ideology instead of winning our wars.In a press briefing on November 10, Pentagon spokesman retired Adm. John Kirby gave further evidence of the Biden administration’s incoherent national strategy. He
refused to distinguish between China and “climate change” as threats to U.S. national security.In response to a question of “which is a bigger threat, the climate or China?” Kirby said, “You’ve heard the secretary talk about the climate as a — a real and existential national security threat...
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White House Wants Easier Path for ‘Climate Migrants’: Climate Security Reports -- "immigration for individuals who have credible threats to life as a result of climate change"
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Epoch Times ^
| 10/22/2021 | Nathan Worcester
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, just weeks away, several federal agencies simultaneously on Oct. 21 released four new analyses on the national security implications of climate change—including a report from the White House on climate change and migration stating that individuals citing climate change “may, in limited
instances, have valid claims for refugee status” in the United States. That White House report states that nationals from a foreign state can be granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on the basis of “climate-related factors,” later recommending that Congress consider relaxing TPS requirements and making it easier for...
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Biden’s Climate Hypocrisy Endangers Energy Security
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Townhall.com ^
| August 20, 2021 | Vijay Jayaray
By now, many among us are familiar with the words Green New Deal, net zero, Paris agreement, carbon neutral, etc. All
are names for energy policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the very politicians who preach the climate gospel — and espouse anti-fossil fuel policies — have embraced fossil fuels with gusto. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden called for an increase in oil production from OPEC countries to rein in gas price increases in America, thus contradicting his calls for a reduction in fossil fuel consumption. Will there be an end to politicians’ fossil fuel hypocrisy? Biden:...
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We're Doomed: Climate Change Named a National Security Threat, Biden Executive Order Forces This Policy on the US Military
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westernjournal.com ^
| 3/14/2021 0959 hrs EDT | C Douglas Golden
Perhaps I’m an archaic, conservative Neanderthal, but I believe the Defense Department’s job can be boiled to three objectives. First,
waging war. Second, planning to wage war. Third, being good enough at waging war and planning to wage war that you never have to wage it. That’s why a March 9 memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin concerned me. Even though our defense budget is a large one, we still have a limited pool of resources to draw from. Once any budget is set, if you invest money, time, energy or other resources into one thing, it must be taken...
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AOC demands ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are abolished and the U.S. lets in 'climate refugees' in radical plan set to anger centrist Democrats
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UK Daily Mail ^
| February 24 2021 | KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and BY NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DA
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to dissolve the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security in a massive overhaul to the immigration system after it was revealed Joe Biden reopened facilities for housing unaccompanied minors arriving at the border. 'It's
only 2 [months] into this admin & our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time,' the New York progressive representative posted to Twitter Tuesday evening. 'That's why bold reimagination is so [important.]' She asserted: 'DHS shouldn't exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more.'
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Biden's Climate Orders Will Flip America's National Security on Its Head
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pjmedia.com ^
| 1/27/2021 2105 hrs est | Tyler O'Neil
While Biden only signed two executive orders, his first order, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad Executive Order,” proved a monstrosity with no fewer than seven separate aspects. The
order directs the federal government to place the so-called “climate crisis” at the center of U.S. foreign policy and national security concerns. This involves: committing the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement; scheduling a Leaders’ Climate Summit on Earth Day, April 22, 2021; creating a new climate envoy (John Kerry) for the National Security Council; and directing the Director of National Intelligence to prepare a report on climate change....
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China’s Green NGO Climate Propaganda Enablers
Climate change is a national security threat – but not in the way the national security elite assumes.
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realclearenergy.org ^
| 12/21/2020 | Rupert Darwall
This pattern, wherein the West’s enemies use the environmental movement – whether NGOs like Greenpeace, foundations, or “concerned scientists,” to undermine Western interests – is now being repeated, this time in respect to China. A report by Patricia Adams for the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation released earlier this month lays bare
the role of the green movement in acting as China’s propagandists. Since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party eight years ago, almost everyone who believed China’s communist regime would become more benign internally and less threatening externally has revised his opinion – everyone, that...
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China fears trade conflicts, climate change could pose threat to food security
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South China Morning Post ^
| 12/1/2019 | Jane Cai
Last month the country’s leadership produced its first report on the issue in 23 years as the trade war with the US and other issues prompted a fresh look at how it can continue to feed its population
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China fears trade conflicts with US, climate change could pose threat to food security
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South China Morning Post ^
| 11/30/2019 | Jane Cai
Global trade conflicts and the increasing trend towards unilateral trade agreements have raised alarm bells in Beijing about how China can continue to feed its 1.4 billion people. Last
month the State Council, the country’s cabinet, published a policy paper on food security – the first in 23 years. It said that while the current food supply situation was “very sound” it also flagged concerns about potential disruptions due to trade friction with the US. Climate change is another worry for future food production. China’s devastating experiences with hunger and famine mean that the prospect of food shortages touches a...
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