This will be the last post on the blog. As of February 1, I am no longer working at the IISS. I can say with confidence that the dialogue was successful in bringing together a diverse group of ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/end-of-transatlantic-dialogue.html
Last week, on Wednesday, January 26, the IISS held a small event to launch our report on climate change and security. This report was submitted to the European Commission, as the final results ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-week-iiss-held-small-event-to.html
Next week, on Wednesday, I will be presenting the results of the IISS Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security at the IISS's US office here in Washington. Esther McClure, a Strategy ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/01/event-advisory-results-of-iiss.html
In the early hours of Saturday morning in the Mexican tropical resort of Cancun, international climate negotiators from the 193 countries and observer states came to agreement on what will no...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/12/climate-agreement-in-cancun-important.html
For the past two weeks, government officials, climate campaigners, and the traveling circus that follows international negotiations have descended on the tropical resort island of Cancun on Mexi...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/12/cancun-climate-summit-troubled-by.html
The Asia Society's "China Green" project has a new video out on their website called "The Melt" that gives a very quick, but important overview on how the glaciers in the Himalayas are changi...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/12/asia-societys-china-green-project-has.html
Yesterday, Forbes.com published a column by Larry Bell, “Disarmament in America’s Energy Security Battles” . I thought it was extraordinary, even by the low standards of opinion journali...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/europe-has-much-to-teach-america-about.html
Below is a blog post from IISS intern, Marie Steinrucke, with a good analysis of how climate policy affected the elections, and what that means for policy going forward. I’ve presented it mo...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-climate-policy-with-republican-house.html
Today, I am republishing a blog post from Jeff Mazo, the IISS' Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy. He posted it to the IISS 'Voices' blog about a presentation given ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/climate-wars-not-if-but-when.html
Three Mile Island (Copyright National Geographic) IISS-US Intern Marie Steinrucke has put together an interesting guest post on recent developments on nuclear energy in Germany and the Unit...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/10/nuclear-energy-debate-in-germany-and-us.html
Today is 'Blog Action Day 2010 ', and this year, bloggers around the world are writing about water. To join in, I've put together a post on how water insecurity had led to conflict around the...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/10/water-wars-or-water-riots.html
On Thursday, September 23 at a Congressional briefing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming , about 'Extreme Weather in a Warming World' the Pakistani Ambassado...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/09/floods-amplified-by-military-activity.html
This week, the UN General Assembly is meeting in New York. One of the key topics of discussion this week is a 10 year report on the progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. IISS int...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/09/climate-change-and-millennium.html
Today in New York, Secretary Hillary Clinton announced the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at the Clinton Global Initiative, hosted by her husband Bill Clinton. As well as the launch bei...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/09/global-alliance-for-clean-cookstoves.html
There is an excellent blog post on the Economist's 'Democracy in America' blog about the media's handling of two weather events of the last year: the snowstorms and the Russian fires. He presen...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/08/climate-weather-and-media.html
Via Marc Ambinder , I see that General James Clapper, the nominee to be the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI), had some interesting things to say about the intelligence community's res...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/08/dni-nominee-clapper-on-climate-and.html
Following up on yesterday's post, which showed satellite pictures of the heat, drought and fires in Russia , I see that a widely-published Russian author, Andrei Areshev, deputy director of the�...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/08/real-climate-change-weapon_03.html
As the old saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words, and in this case a sequence of pictures shows exactly what's happened this summer in south western Russia, around the Volga River, in the...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/08/russias-heat-drought-and-fires-as-seen.html
The Economist has a very clear and compelling chart up today showing how the world is warming. This chart is taken from NOAA's just released report on "The State of the Climate, 2009" . The ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/07/warming-world.html
Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification . Though this may not get the attention of such days as Flag Day (Monday), Chinese Dragon Boat Festival Day (yesterday), or Father's Day (this co...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/06/world-day-to-combat-desertification.html
In an ironic twist, a new study shows that rapid warming in the Arctic will make the weather in Northern Europe and Eastern North America much colder. This was the weather pattern that prevai...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/06/warming-in-arctic-to-cause-colder.html
I have spent very little time on this blog delving into the US political debate about climate policy. Frankly, in the short to medium term, it doesn't matter very much for security policy what ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/06/aside-into-domestic-us-politics.html
Foreign Policy's Passport blog has a quick post, "Pacific islands are actually growing" linking to a new study from the University of Aukland saying that 80% of Pacific Islands have grown or ...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/06/pacifc-islands-growing-but-can-that.html
I've reprinted below the Press Release for this Friday's Conference on Climate Change and Security. I would encourage everyone to watch online on Friday! The International Institute for Strat...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/05/iiss-conference-global-security.html
Via the Politico's Morning Energy Blog , I learned that today (Tuesday, May 25), the Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management of the US House Representatives' Permanent Subcommittee on...
http://climatesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/05/house-intelligence-committte-hearing-on.html