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25 Feb: Reuters: Climate change could pose ‘catastrophic’ security threat, experts warn
by Matthew Lavietes
Climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to global security, as people lose their livelihoods, fall ill and battle over scarce water and food, a host of U.S. security, military and intelligence experts warned on Monday.

Pressures from global warming could intensify political tensions, unrest and conflict, fuel violent extremism and break down government security systems, the experts said in a report by the Center of Climate and Security, a nonpartisan policy institute...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-security/climate-change-could-pose-catastrophic-security-threat-experts-warn-idUSKCN20I2O9

nonpartisan!!! hardly:

12 Sept 2019: Science Mag: Why a high-profile climate science opponent quit Trump’s White House
By Scott Waldman, E&E News
Happer’s departure was celebrated by Democratic lawmakers, environmental groups and climate policy think tanks.
“When your military, intelligence and science agencies are all warning about the security risks of climate change, you simply can’t have a climate denier in a senior position at the National Security Council,” said Francesco Femia, co-founder of the Center for Climate & Security in Washington, D.C., in a statement. “So this is a welcome development. However, heaping too much praise on this is like praising the arsonist for dumping a bucket of water on the house he just burned down. The real test is what — substantively — happens next.”

Happer, who recently turned 80, will return to Princeton University, where he is an emeritus physics professor...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/why-high-profile-climate-science-opponent-quit-trump-s-white-house

for the full report:

24 Feb: The Center for Climate & Security: RELEASE: Future Climate Change Presents High-to-Catastrophic Security Threat, Warn U.S. National Security, Military and Intelligence Experts in New Assessment
The report (LINK) will be officially launched this afternoon at 3:30pm EST in a briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building (Gold Room 2168) featuring distinguished members of the expert panel...
https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/02/24/release-future-climate-change-presents-high-to-catastrophic-security-threat-warn-u-s-national-security-military-and-intelligence-experts-in-new-assessment/