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We’re Hiring: Research Fellow for the Center for Climate and Security
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) seeks to hire a full-time Research Fellow for the Center for Climate and Security (CCS). This is an entry-level position focused on supporting our research on addressing climate security risks and solutions. The person in this role will work closely with the CCS Director, Deputy Director, and other members of the CCS team.
Exploring the Collision of Extreme Weather, Information Manipulation, and Security Threats in Florida
By Tom Ellison, Erin Sikorsky, and Noah Fritzhand
Information manipulation is increasingly recognized as a contributor to climate risks. 2025 saw landmark academic assessments on the topic, as well as the first action on climate information integrity at a UN climate summit. Meanwhile, bad actors take advantage of opportunities to propagandize, sow confusion, and undermine trust as the impacts of climate change intensify and the stakes of policy action grow. These mutually reinforcing challenges jeopardize security and democracy, especially amid volatile geopolitics, rapid change in the technology and media landscape, and US federal reversals on climate policy and information integrity.
This raises questions for a range of US actors amid intensifying extreme weather. How can state and local officials build resilience and respond to emergencies when facing an unsupportive federal government and global, minimally regulated information threats? What are the implications for US military disaster relief and readiness when information manipulation threatens political cohesion and civilian communities? How can journalism or tech policy serve climate security by mitigating mis/disinformation? And how can academia, civil society, and community groups better collaborate to exchange information and expertise?
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) recently completed a foresight exercise in Florida to explore these questions. Co-hosted by the University of Miami’s Climate Resilience Institute, the event brought together a diverse mix of expertise, including local resilience and emergency management, national security and foreign policy, communications and information integrity, social and natural sciences, and local climate education and activism. Participants heard from senior homeland security and defense speakers, then engaged in a facilitated scenario exercise exploring a plausible extreme weather, information, and national security crisis in Florida. The discussion highlighted several key themes.
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State Level Climate Security Briefers: Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington
CCS has released the latest in a series of subnational climate security briefers focused on the US states Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington. Each state faces a range of risks to lives, critical infrastructure, military bases, and local economies from intensifying extreme weather and climate hazards. Federal agencies, particularly the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provide critical support to these states to help manage these risks. That support has, in some cases, already been cut by the Administration or is facing further proposed cuts.
Read the Briefers here:
State Level Climate Security Education: Colorado
By Madeline Craig-Scheckman and Haidi Al-Shabrawey
State Level Climate Security Education: Hawai’i
By Jessica Kēhaulani Wong
State Level Climate Security Education: Washington
By Natalie Fiertz
MiRCH Updates, June – October 2025: Militaries Intervene Worldwide During Wildfire and Tropical Cyclone Season
By Tom Ellison and Noah Fritzhand
From June through October 2025, the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker documented 80 military deployments in 25 countries to address climate hazards. Most notably, these five months saw military deployments in response to the devastating impacts of tropical cyclones and torrential rain in transboundary regions across the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean, wildfires across North America and Europe, and severe storms and flooding in the United States. These incidents underscore the implications of preparedness and response cuts in the United States; the challenges of compounding, transnational disasters; and the intersection of disaster relief and conflict.
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