Climate security

Obama using Alaska to add urgency to his climate change warnings

There has been a confluence of climate-related events in Alaska recently: more frequent and massive wildfires, bigger storm surges as sea ice melts, swift shoreline erosion, and melting permafrost.Obama said that Alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world over the past 60 years and warned that without more aggressive action, “we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair.”