Obama Advisor: ‘Climate Change Will Affect Virtually Every Country on Earth’

‘As Secretary Kerry has recently noted, climate change can produce effects similar to those of weapons of mass destruction ... it is, after all, global climate warming’

Obama Advisor: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Military Bases: ‘Where Will We Move Them?’ (CNS News)

A top Obama advisor said at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Thursday that climate change threatens our national security, including military bases that could be misplaced by rising sea levels.

“It could, for example, affect our military mission,” Alice Hill, senior advisor for Preparedness and Resilience to the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said during a panel discussion on “Current Federal Efforts” to fight climate change.

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