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When will mainstream media start grilling presidential candidates on how our next President will address Climate Change and direct our military’s role? We should mitigate Climate Change by halting any more human-caused, greenhouse gas emissions; but we will have to adapt to the devastating consequences of more flooding, more extreme weather, and more social unrest. President Obama’s “Presidential Memorandum -- Climate Change and National Security ” makes it clear that our military must be prepared for what Climate Change portends by planning on a scale and time frame that will matter.  Obama Just Tied Climate Change to National Security  On Wednesday, President Obama took another step toward securing his climate legacy. This time his focus wasn’t on energy ,  public lands  or  international diplomacy . It was on national security and making sure the U.S. military is prepared for a more unstable future. The White House published a  presidential memorandum...

Now that Bernie Sanders, who was the champion for addressing Climate Change, is out of the presidential race, where does this crisis go? ( Bernie Sanders: Yes, Climate Change Is Still Our Biggest National Security Threat , 11/14/2015, Mother Jones) Does it get ignored because Clinton can’t or won’t use it to beat Trump over the head because neither Trump nor the media think it’s worth bringing up? Does it get kicked down the road to another election because it still doesn’t have ‘legs’ in our electoral process? If so, that would put us into an even deeper existential plight. Yes, existential plight. However unfashionable using apocalyptic language with this crisis may appear, one cannot overstate the problem with Climate Change and our collective inertia. President Obama began his presidency with a very milquetoast policy on Climate Change and what evolved over his watch is a President far more engaged with this crisis: Obama on ‘Terrifying’ Threat of Climate Change (September 8, 201...