Author(s): Jackie Northam
Source: NPR
Date: 08/11/2010
August 11, 2010 - As flooding in Pakistan worsens, CNAS Fellow Christine Parthemore comments to NPR on the security implications of the humanitarian crisis.
| more |Author(s): Lauren Morello
Source: The New York Times
Date: 06/24/2010
June 24, 2010 - CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Jay Gulledge discusses the difficulty of nailing down exact figures for projected sea-level rises in an article in The New York Times that reports on a conference between experts in the defense and climate science community.
| more |Author(s): Will Rogers
Source: Foreign Policy's The Best Defense
Date: 06/21/2010
June 21, 2010 - Will Rogers writes in Foreign Policy on how a lack of sustainable water management policies could contribute to instability in Iraq, arguing that "If left unaddressed, water shortages could very well leave Baghdad hanging out to dry -- and us, too."
| more |Author(s): Annie Snider
Source: Politics Daily
Date: 05/30/2010
May 30, 2010 - CNAS Fellow Christine Parthemore discusses the evolution of the Navy's preparations for dealing with climate change in an interview with Politics Daily.
| more |Author(s): Richard Fontaine
Source: The Guardian
Date: 05/28/2010
May 28, 2010 – CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine tempers his praise of the Obama administration’s new National Security Strategy in The Guardian with the insight that it represents more continuity with past U.S. policy than the official rhetoric surrounding the document's release would suggest.
| more |Author(s): Juliet Eilperin
Source: The Washington Post
Date: 04/29/2010
April 29, 2010 – The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin highlights the growing recognition that climate change is a national security threat, citing CNAS’ recently released reports on the military’s adaptation to climate change and the need for increased cooperation between climate scientists and policymakers.
| more |Author(s): Jessica Leber
Source: E&E Publishing
Date: 04/27/2010
April 27, 2010 - CNAS researcher Will Rogers talks to E&E about Lost in Translation, his recently released report on the need for increased coordination between climate scientists and national security policymakers, saying “They are almost quietly literally speaking past each other”.
| more |Author(s): Eli Kintisch
Source: Science's 'ScienceInsider' blog
Date: 04/26/2010
April 26, 2010 – Lost in Translation, CNAS’s recently released report by Will Rogers and Jay Gulledge on the need for cooperation between climate scientists and policymakers, is covered by Science magazine’s ScienceInsider blog.
| more |Author(s): Tamara Lytle
Source: AOL News
Date: 04/21/2010
April 20, 2010 – CNAS Fellow Christine Parthemore explains the balancing act the U.S. military faces in adapting to climate change to AOL News, saying “We can't say, 'Oh, we should fly less…The goal has to be to fulfill U.S. military missions. What we need to do is ensure we have sustainable supplies of those fuels over the long term.”
| more |Author(s): Xie Yanmei
Source: China Dialogue
Date: 03/25/2010
March 25, 2010 - CNAS researchers Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers sit down with Xie Yanmeih of China Dialogue to discuss how DoD is adapting to climate change and the role of the QDR in that adaptation. “[The QDR] doesn’t claim to know what future threats might come out of it or where instability is most likely to happen,” says Parthemore, “but it does say that, in the near term, climate-change effects such as sea-level rise or drought could impact some of the areas where the military has large installations.”
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