Climate change differs from traditional military threats, because it is a threat multiplier that magnifies instability in the most volatile places in the world and increases a variety of threats across the board. Dennis McGinn, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired), discusses climate change as an emerging security risk in this CMC forum.

In January 2008, he took the helm at RemoteReality, a designer and manufacturer of next-generation intelligent omni video systems, after five years with Battelle Memorial Institute, where he was a corporate officer and led the energy, transportation and environment division.