President Obama warns of climate threat to global security

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Commencement address to new coast guard cadets warns "climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security-an immediate risk to our national security"

President Obama has offered arguably his most hard-hitting assessment to date of the scale of the threat presented by climate change, warning that it could undermine global security, US national security,...

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