A threat rivaled only by that of the Abominable Snowman.
Via NRO:
Congress’s failure to combat climate change could have “profound national-security implications,” President Obama warned in an interview with the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman over the weekend. In fact, climate change is now so important that he told Friedman he gets environmental briefings frequently, similar to the daily national-security briefing the president gets.
It’s not clear exactly how frequent the briefings are, but when Friedman asked him if he gets environmental briefings like he does national-security briefings from the intelligence community, Obama said, “I do.”
“[White House science adviser] John Holdren typically makes presentations when there are new findings,” he explained. While the two practices aren’t quite comparable, Obama typically reads his presidential security briefing rather than meeting with advisers about it in person.