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The Biden administration’s top spies and scientists released the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on the global security threats posed by climate change on Thursday, concluding that it will pose ever-greater challenges internationally in the decades to come – and at a rate faster than previously expected due to political squabbling and inaction. Within a decade, the estimate warned, higher ocean temperatures and acidity could devastate already strained commercial fisheries, droughts could deplete critically important grain harvests and increased food and water scarcity could trigger widespread conflict, hoarding and potentially a global famine. The diminished energy, food, and water security that...
