Media Roundup: The Pentagon’s Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap

The Department of Defense released its 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap (CCAR) last week. The very first sentence of the report notes: “Climate change will affect the DoD’s ability to defend the nation and poses immediate risks to U.S. national security.” This is some of the strongest language we’ve seen from the DoD, making it clear that the U.S. military views climate change as an immediate risk, not just a future concern. This resulted in a significant amount of media coverage around the report, which we have compiled below.

• Air Force Times
  Andrew Tilghman “New report outlines national security threats of climate change,” October 13, 2014

• Associated Press
  Lolita C. Baldor “Report: Climate change poses military challenges,” October 13, 2014

• Bloomberg
  Mark Drajem and Mark Chediak “Pentagon Warns Climate Change Will Intensify Conflict,” October 14, 2014

• Business Spectator
  Mat Hope, “US military outlines plan to deal with increasing climate change threat,” October 14, 2014

• The Center for Climate and Security
  “Military Leaders Agree with Pentagon: Climate Change an ‘Immediate Risk to National Security’,” October 13, 2014

• Climate Central
  Brian Kahn, “Pentagon: Climate Change Poses ‘Immediate Risks,’” October 13, 2014

• Climate Desk
  Tim McDonnell, “Pentagon: We Could Soon be Fighting Climate Wars,” October 13, 2014

• The Current CBC Radio
  Anna Maria Tremonti “Pentagon adds climate change to list of security threats, Canada faces pressure to follow suit,” October 20, 2014

• Defense News
  John Banusiewicz “Hagel to Address ‘Threat Mulitplier’ of Climate Change,” October 13, 2014

• Defense News
  Paul McLeary “Hagel Debuts DoD Climate-Change Strategy,” October 13, 2014

• DoD News
  Jim Garamone “Military Must Be Ready for Climate Change, Hagel Says,” October 14, 2014

• The Duck of Minerva
  Josh Busby, “Climate and Security Revisited,” October 18, 2014

• Fierce Homeland Security
  Dibya Sarkar “Confronting climate change important to US national security, Defense Department says,” October 13, 2014

• Fox News
  “Pentagon calls climate change a matter of ‘national security,” October 13, 2014

• Fox News Latino
  EFE “Americas defense summit seeking greater cooperation, consensus security,” October 13, 2014

• The Guardian
  Suzanne Goldenberg “Pentagon: global warming will change how US military trains and goes to war,” October 13, 2014

• The Hill Laura
  Barron-Lopez “Hagel: Pentagon launching climate roadmap,” October 13, 2014

• The Hill
  Kristina Wong “OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Pentagon sees security threat from climate,” October 13, 2014

• LA Times
  J. Hennigan “Pentagon unveils plan for military’s response to climate,” October 13, 2014

• LA Times
  J. Hennigan and Neela Banerjee, “Pentagon to unveil plan for dealing with climate change,” October 13, 2014

• Mashable
  Andrew Freedman “Pentagon Views Global Warming as an ‘Immediate’ Security Threat,” October 13, 2014

• Military.com
  Richard Sisk “Army Braces for Global Warming Impacts on Bases,” October 14, 2014

• National Defense Magazine
  Sandra I. Erwin “Hagel Makes Strong Case for Action to Cope With Climate Change,” October 12, 2014

• NBC News
  “Pentagon: Climate Change Poses ‘Immediate Risks’ to National Security,” October 13, 2014

• The National Interest
  Paul Pillar “Climate Change and National Security, Properly Defined,” October 17, 2014

• New York Times
  Coral Davenport “Pentagon Signals Security Risks of Climate Change,” October 14, 2014

• NPR
  Rachel Martin “DOD: Climate Change Is A Volatile Factor In International Security,” October 19, 2014

• Philadelphia Daily News
  “No threat more threatening than climate change,” October 3, 2014

• PolicyMic
  Tom McCay, “The Pentagon Says Climate Change Poses an ‘Immediate Risk’ to National Security,” October 13, 2014

• Reuters
  Ayesha Rascoe “S. military lays out plan for coping with climate change,” October 13, 2014

• Reuters
  Andrea Shalal “Navy Admiral: U.S. weather forecasting gets a C grade,” October 14, 2014

• Scientific American
  Lisa Friedman, “Immediate Risk to National Security Posed by Global Warming,” October 14, 2014

• Slate
  Sharon E. Burke “The Pentagon’s Climate Change Plan Is Great. But Will It Be Easy to Ignore?” October 17, 2014

• Smithsonian
  Natasha Geiling, “Five Conflicts and Collapses That May Have Been Spurred by Climate Change,” October 20, 2014

• Stars and Stripes
  Chris Carroll “Report lays out military’s challenges with climate change,” October 13, 2014

• Vice News
  Robert S. Eshelman, “Pentagon Warns of Immediate National Security Threats from Climate Change,” October 14, 2014

• The Wall Street Journal
  Amy Harder, “Pentagon Releases Plan, Citing Security Threat of Global Warming,” October 13, 2014

• Washington Examiner
  Zach Colman “Hagel: Climate change a ‘threat multiplier’,” October 13, 2014

• The Washington Post
  Dan Lamothe “Climate change threatens national security, Pentagon says,” October 13, 2014

• The White House Blog
  Secretary Chuck Hagel “The Department of Defense Must Plan for the National Security Implications of Climate Change,” October 13, 2014

• Yahoo News/ LiveScience
  Laura Geggel, “Climate Change an ‘Immediate Risk,’ Pentagon Says,” October 15, 2014