New IPS Report: Global Warming & Our Security

My friend Miriam Pemberton at the Institute for Policy Studies has just released an excellent and important new study, comparing expenditures on climate change reduction to funding for other security threats. Here's the link:
http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/military_vs_climate_security_mapping_the_shift_from_the_bush_years_to_the_obama_era
Ms. Pemberton's report draws a set of important conclusions:
The public interest would be served by closing the enormous gap between federal expenditures on military as opposed to climate security. The grounds for this are:
*It will make the balance of our security resources more consistent with the relative magnitudes of the threats faced by the nation and the world.
*In a time of rising unemployment, this shift will create more jobs than the current balance of spending on military and climate security.
*It will redirect the jobs base toward work the country needs doing.
Paul Rosenberg over on OpenLeft.com has a related piece, pointing out that in recent years the Pentagon itself has realized that climate change is a huge threat to our near-term security.
The logical result would be, as the IPS research suggests, to reorient our military spending to put more funding into U.S./worldwide carbon dioxide reduction and poverty mitigation planning, with less spent on continuing to defend against non-existent Cold War threats.
This would be a worthy, smart game plan for the Obama Administration, imho...