The latest reports about our global climate http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released its 2007 Greenhouse Gas Emissions report, outlining the the latest trends in US energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions: Total greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 were 1.4 percent higher than in 2006. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/news/desmogblogcom_december_3_2008 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/news/desmogblogcom_december_3_2008 The world’s energy system is at a crossroads. Current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable — environmentally, economically, socially. But that can — and must —be altered; there’s still time to change the road we’re on. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/international_energy_agency_nov_12_2008 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/international_energy_agency_nov_12_2008 Investing in clean energy would create four times as many jobs as spending the same amount of money within the oil industry. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/nrdc_9_9_08 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/nrdc_9_9_08 Distributing carbon permit or tax revenues equally among U.S. residents would widen the already yawning income gap between rich and poor. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/rff_9_2008 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/rff_9_2008 As the 2008 presidential election heads into the final stretch, it is clearer than ever before that American energy policy is at a crossroads. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/pcaf_8_18_08 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/pcaf_8_18_08 The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/wwf_7_3_08 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/wwf_7_3_08 The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events on a global basis in this same context. However, there has not been a specific assessment across North America prior to this report. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/noaa_6_19_08 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/noaa_6_19_08 The report analyzes the effects of global climate change on natural and human environments, agriculture, water, social systems, energy, transportation, and health in the United States vis-a-vis global climate change. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/usccsp_report_2008 Thu, 29 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/usccsp_report_2008 The 80 percent reduction in U.S. emissions needed to stop climate change may not come cheaply, but the cost of failing to act will be much greater. See the NRDC cost chart showing the numbers. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/nrdc_costs Thu, 01 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/nrdc_costs The world has never faced such a predictably massive threat to food production as that posed by the melting mountain glaciers of Asia. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/epi_3_20_08 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/epi_3_20_08 The report examines often ignored costs of the war in terms climate change impacts. Among its findings are that the projected total US spending on the Iraq war could cover all of the global investments in renewable power generation that are needed between now and 2030 in order to halt current warming trends. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/oil_change_3_19_08 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/oil_change_3_19_08 This report finds that the risks posed by climate change are real and its impacts are already taking place. Investment in mitigation as well as in ways to adapt to the unavoidable should go hand in hand with addressing the international security threats created by climate change; both should be viewed as part of preventive security policy. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/eur_com_paper_3_14_08 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/eur_com_paper_3_14_08 As a result of climate change people and nations will be threatened by massive food and water shortages, devastating natural disasters, and deadly disease outbreaks. It is critical that policymakers do all they can to prevent the domino of the first major climate change consequence, whether it be food scarcity or the outbreak of disease, from falling. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/podesta_winter_07_08 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/podesta_winter_07_08 The Federal Government is spending dramatically more on the military than it is on the national security threat of climate change. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/ips_jan_2008 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/ips_jan_2008 Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well including at a minimum include increased disease proliferation; tensions caused by large-scale migration; and conflict sparked by resource scarcity. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/csis_climate_11_07 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/csis_climate_11_07 Recognizing that some climate change is inevitable, Joshua Busby proposes a portfolio of feasible and affordable policy options to reduce the vulnerability of the United States and other countries to the predictable effects of climate change. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/climate_busby_11_07 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/climate_busby_11_07 This report, signed by five retired generals and six retired admirals, describes Global climate change as a new and very different type of national security challenge that poses grave implications for our national security. They describe it as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world and the U.S. should begin now to deal with it. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/cna_2007 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/cna_2007 Climate change is underway and will have national security impacts that must be anticipated, evaluated, and neutralized to the greatest degree possible. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/army_college_3_2007 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/army_college_3_2007 Transcript from Council on Foreign Relations regarding Climate Change http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/cfr_transcript_9_21_06 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/cfr_transcript_9_21_06 The link between climate security and energy security cannot be underplayed, according to WWF. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/wwf_intl_7_11_06 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/wwf_intl_7_11_06 This British report reviews a wide range of economic impacts and concludes that "the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting." http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/stern_jan_2006 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/europe/stern_jan_2006 This report was prepared for the Department of Defense. The purpose of this report is to imagine the unthinkable -- to push the boundaries of current research on climate change so we may better understand the potential implications on United States national security. http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/gbn_10_2003 Wed, 01 Oct 2003 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/us/gbn_10_2003 Series of case studies prepared by The Project on Environment, Population and Security of situations where environmental degradation has led to conflict and economic instability http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/canada/peps_7_1997 Tue, 01 Jul 1997 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.globalclimatesecurity.org/reports/canada/peps_7_1997