05/24/2011
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"Immediate attention to those climate threats and other global challenges goes beyond traditional national security priorities; however, it must be aligned and integrated with them."
"Climate change will continue to drive instability around the world, recognition that the opening Arctic will create new dimensions in great power competition."
"I agree that climate change presents some national security related challenges."
"In the past, Congress has explicitly acknowledged the security impacts of climate change as a direct threat to U.S. national security."