Climate-Security Rundown: A List of Recent Events You May Have Missed

There’s been a lot of activity in the U.S. climate-national security space in recent weeks, including insightful commentary from retired flag officers and national security officials, and hearings in the U.S. Congress. Below is a short list of those happenings, including links to summaries and sources. If we have missed anything, please let us know in the comments section below!

• Op-Ed in the Des Moines Register by General Ron Keys, USAF (ret): “Kalona solar farm helps secure U.S. energy supply”
  July 30, 2014
  Full Op-Ed here
  Our summary, including summaries of other media coverage of General Keys’ visit to Iowa, here and on our Twitter page

• Congressional Hearing: “The Costs of Inaction: The Economic and Budgetary Consequences of Climate Change”
  July 29, 2014
  Including testimony from Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA Corporation; Executive Director, CNA Military Advisory Board
  Details, including written testimonies here

• Event: “National Security and Climate Change: What Do We Need to Know?”
  July 29, 2014
  Convened by: Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Woodrow Wilson Center
  Including remarks by Alice Hill, White House Senior Advisor for Preparedness and Resilience and Commander John Marburger, Climate Change Affairs Officer of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force Climate Change
  Details and summary here

• Public Comments on EPA Clean Power Plant Rules by retired military officers (representatives of the American Security Project’s Consensus for American Security)
  July 28, 2014
  Including comments by Lieutenant General John Castellaw USMC (Ret.), Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.), Lt Colonel Hal Bidlack, Ph.D. (USAF, Ret.), Lt. Jonathan Breed, USN (Ret.)
  Details and summary at the ASP website here

• Editorial in Science Magazine by RADM David Titley, USN (Ret.): “Ghosts from the past”
  July 25, 2014
  Full Editorial here (though behind a paywall)
  Summary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here

• Congressional Hearing: “Implementing U.S. Policy in the Arctic”
  July 23, 2014
  Including testimony from RADM Jonathan White, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy; Director, Space and Maritime Domain Awareness, U.S. Navy
  Details, including written testimonies here

• Congressional Hearing: “U.S. Security Implications of International Energy and Climate Policies and Issues”
  July 22, 2014
  Including testimony from RADM Dave Titley, USN (Ret.) and Dr. Daniel Chiu, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development
  Details, including written testimonies here
  Our summary here

• Op-Ed for CNN by Sharon Burke: “U.S. Military’s New Foe”
  July 21, 2014
  Full OpEd here
  Our summary here