White House Comments on the Security Risks of Climate Change

On Wednesday of this week, Ben Rhodes, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, hosted a short Q&A on national security via twitter. The Center for Climate and Security’s Caitlin Werrell posed the following question, and received the following response from Mr. Rhodes:

Mr. Rhodes continued with additional comments on what the U.S. would be doing in this space:

The Center for Climate and Security applauds Mr. Rhodes’ acknowledgment of the security risks of a changing climate, as well as President Obama’s mention of the climate change threat in his State of the Union address. This view is shared by a growing bi-partisan consensus among leaders in the national security, military and intelligence communities.