“Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year. The 2003 report is credited with kick-starting the movement that links climate change to national security. The Pentagon is making big investments in biofuels, for example, and is working climate change into high-level strategic planning. There is no exact budget line for climate change. The Government Accountability Office in 2011 documented a big increase in federal spending, from $4.6 billion in 2003 to nearly $9 billion in 2010.”
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