Solving global climate change can help ensure America’s security

Fighting global warming is one way to ensure the security of our nation — if left unchecked, global warming could lead to civil strife, economic stress, conflicts over water and other resources, mass migration, and increased terrorism.

The Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate is dedicated to highlighting the climate-security nexus in order to advance discussions and solutions that will make the United States safer, more prosperous, and secure.


The Issues

Latest News

Dennis Blair testifies on the Annual Threat Assessment of the
US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 

Read testimony

DoD declares global warming will play a "significant role in shaping the future security environment"

read the Quadrennial Defense Review

Pew's fact sheet on the QDR

Pentagon review to address climate change for the first time

Roxana Tiron, The Hill, January 30, 2010

Pentagon to list warming as a 'destabilizing' force

Colin Sullivan, E&E, January 26, 2010

Vets fight for cleaner energy

T.J. Greaney, Columbia Daily Tribune, January 22, 2010

Military in Hawaii has big plans for solar power at base

William Cole, Honolulu Adviser, January 21, 2010

Watch: Former Sen. John Warner discusses impact of climate change on national security

Events

2010 tour dates coming soon!

We will pay for this [climate change impacts] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to take an economic hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms…and that will involve human lives

—General Anthony C. Zinni