Fight climate change for global stability, say US defence and diplomacy elite

Full-page newspaper advertisement by ex-military and foreign policy leaders is aimed at Republicans who want to block action on cutting carbon emissions

Nearly 50 leaders of America's defence and foreign policy establishment are calling on political and business leaders to "think past tomorrow" and lead the fight on climate change.

In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal the experts - 48 former secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, diplomats and members of Congress from both parties - say it is time for America to claim global leadership on climate change.