During the event, panelists discussed how climate change and our energy posture threaten the country’s national security and ways the U.S. military is preparing to meet these challenges. "I spent 30 years in the U.S. Senate working on behalf of our men and women in uniform serving our country and on the issues related to the impact of climate changes on their future military roles and missions ... Leading military and security experts agree that global warming could increase instability and lead to conflict in already fragile regions of the world. We ignore these facts at the peril of our national security and at great risk to those in uniform who serve this nation." “The Armed Services realize that America’s growing dependence on oil isn’t just expensive, it can be dangerous,” said VADM Dennis V. McGinn USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board. Full Article at YubaNet