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A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.

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Once this data error was corrected, estimates of ocean warming over the past 40 years were much smoother, and the large “bump” in the 1970s and 80s more or less disappeared from the record. This was something of a relief because the “bump” in the heat content record was not only absent from climate models, there was no evidence for it in any other records and no good explanation could be found for its cause. The reason for that is obvious now: because it wasn’t real.”

Washington Times - Climate change poses U.S. security risks

"Climate change makes it more likely that we will either get multiple crises in different locations, or even multiple crisis in the same locations," said Marc Levy, deputy director of Colombia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network. "We're in the early stage of living with climate changes, but as concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions rise, we stand to see the equivalent of what the army worries about with fighting multiple wars: a string of bad events, of landslides, tornadoes and hurricanes."

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, a California Democrat who spearheaded efforts to convince Congress that the intelligence community should evaluate climate change as a security threat, said she is finally seeing shifts in official attitudes.

"When I brought the issue up, some lawmakers two years ago made fun," she said. "They felt that a so-called environmental issue didn't deserve to be blended with national security. But those attitudes are changing."

Although multiple international studies link climate change to human consumption of fossil fuels, some scientists are skeptical about the connection.

"Most of the recent national-security-related reports examining the climate issue have taken the models from the U.N. at face value. They look at the worst-case scenarios and project what the impacts would be on national security without regard to the underlying data," said Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican.

Mr. Levy agreed. "It is helpful to have a degree of skepticism," he said. "It's our job as citizens to dig a little below surface and see how hard the evidence really is."