Headline Roundup • February 7th, 2015
Assessing Climate Risks
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Washington Times
President Obama’s new national-security strategy ranks combating climate change as a priority alongside more traditional threats such as terrorism, biological emergencies and nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states.
The White House released an outline Friday of Mr. Obama’s updated national-security strategy, the administration’s first revision in five years. Along with confronting terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and working to reverse automatic budget cuts for national defense, the administration cited climate change as a top priority.
President Obama
The Obama administration's new national security strategy, released Friday, puts a top priority on climate change, calling it "an urgent and growing threat."
Climate change, the strategy says, is "contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water."
The strategy lists climate change as one of eight "top strategic risks" to U.S. interests, along with a catastrophic attack on the U.S., threats or attacks against citizens abroad, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
"The present day effects of climate change are...
USA TODAY
Yet another source confirms 2014 was the Earth's warmest year on record.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week agreed with NASA, NOAA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency, all of which made their announcements last month.
The WMO, a United Nations agency, reported the average global air temperature in 2014 was 1.03 degrees above the long-term average of 57.2 degrees. That puts 2014 slightly ahead of both 2010 and 2005, the previous warmest two years.
"Analysis of the datasets indicates that 2014 was nominally the warmest on record, although there...
