The UN Frames Global Warming as Really about Security

NPR’s Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council’s attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security. Trinifar has all the details and […]

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Matthew C. Nisbet

August 16, 2010

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NPR’s Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council’s attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security.

Trinifar has all the details and analysis. The mysterious one also has a related post up on yesterday’s announcement by U.S. military brass that climate change is indeed a national security threat.

Matthew C. Nisbet

Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University

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