NPR's Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council's attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security.
Trinifar has all the details and analysis. The mysterious one also has a related post up on yesterday's announcement by U.S. military brass that climate change is indeed a national security threat.
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I heard it on NPR twice today and loved the way they framed it.