Topic: Coast Guard Academy

President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Coast Guard Academy asserting that climate change is an immediate risk to national security. He characterized the denial of climate change as a "dereliction of duty" for military leadership. This stance effectively frames skeptics of man-made climate change as potential enemies of the state.

President Obama addressed graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, declaring climate change a "dereliction of duty" to ignore and a direct threat to national security. He linked severe droughts to the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the civil war in Syria. The President argued that the military must factor rising sea levels and resource scarcity into all future strategic planning.