September 2009

Senate Democrats Seek Political Traction on Climate Bill
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:06 PM

Senate Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday establishing mandatory, nationwide limits on greenhouse gases, hoping to spur political momentum on the issue before negotiators meet in Copenhagen in December to try to forge a new international climate pact.
The bill [...]

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Cross-posted from GEN-WE Blog at http://blog.gen-we.com/?p=99
The debate over healthcare reform is threatening to delay any progress on climate change legislation. While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has said climate change will be considered by the Senate before the end of the year, if the healthcare debate continues, consideration of climate change legislation will likely [...]

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Given the threats we as a nation have faced since 9/11, it’s reasonable to think in terms of how climate change will affect societies that are already under stress – how countries could quickly degenerate from fragile to failed states, drawing US forces into civil wars or humanitarian interventions, or providing fertile ground for terrorist [...]

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Climate change is real.  The Pentagon, the National Intelligence Council, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency all agree on this basic fact.  Climate change also acts as ‘threat multiplier,’ which means over time it will increase the number of reasons why our military must fight.
Here are some examples:

A warming climate will melt [...]

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Friday, September 25, 2009
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With G-20 leaders and finance ministers still in flight or in the wings for much of yesterday, a variety of veterans, humanitarian and environmental organizations took center stage to urge immediate action on climate change concerns.
An international relief group, InterAction, said climate changes are already damaging humanitarian relief [...]

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