Friday, January 19, 2018

Climate Change: Bipartisan Group of more than 100 Members of Congress Urges Action

Climate Change Is National Security Risk, Congress Members Warn (Eos)


The Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy differs sharply from Obama’s strategy, which identified climate change as a top strategic risk to the country.

A bipartisan group of more than 100 members of Congress has urged U.S. president Donald Trump to recognize climate change as a national security risk, and they called on him to reconsider this “omission” from the administration’s National Security Strategy issued on 18 December 2017.

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(Thanks to GRC Member Marcelo Lippmann, Staff Scientist (retired) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the submission.)