Climate change and national security describes serious threats to the security and prosperity of countries, due to climate warming, and climate actions to adapt and mitigate impacts.

References

• Why the U.S. East Coast could be a major ‘hotspot’ for rising seas https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/01/why-the-u-s-east-coast-could-be-a-major-hotspot-for-sea-level-rise/
• Obama talks Risks to National Security from Climate Change at US Coast Guard Academy 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3n5JjU4N0
• NASA experts explain ice melt in Antarctica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03t3429OUSM
• NATO: Climate Change Is Significant Security Threat and ‘Its Bite Is Already Being Felt’ http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/12/nato-climate-change/
• Climate Change Now Top Security Threat AND Top Economic Threat http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/15/climate-change-top-security-threat-top-economic-threat-gop-ignores.html
• Worldwide Threat Assessment: Climate Magnifying Instability http://climateandsecurity.org/2016/02/10/world-wide-threat-assessment-climate-magnifying-instability/
• Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (2003). “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security” http://www.climate.org/PDF/clim_change_scenario.pdf
• Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises 2013 doi:10.17226/18373
• Doherty, Thomas J.; Clayton, Susan (2011). The psychological impacts of global climate change doi:10.1037/a0023141
• Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: ‘Climate change is not hysteria – it’s a fact'” The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/leonarodo-dicaprio-un-climate-change-speech-new-york
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Don’t listen to the climate change cynics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn39BNUYe-w
• 13 million along US coast could see homes swamped by 2100, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/14/climate-change-us-coast-homes-2100-great-migration

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