Posted on 02/06/2015 5:17:39 PM PST by Libloather
The Obama administration looks at climate change as a threat to national security on par with terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and disease outbreaks.
President Obama’s national security strategy released Friday updates the previous plan published in 2010, with focuses on Russia, Islamic militants and health.
“Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water,” the White House says in the 35-page strategy document.
“The present day effects of climate change are being felt from the Arctic to the Midwest. Increased sea levels and storm surges threaten coastal regions, infrastructure, and property. In turn, the global economy suffers, compounding the growing costs of preparing and restoring infrastructure.”
The administration argues that effective action against climate change will bolster the security of the United States and its allies.
The document aligns with Obama’s second-term emphasis on fighting climate change internationally and identifying it as a threat to areas as diverse as agriculture, health and the economy.
In addition to increasing the urgency in the climate fight, the national security strategy could lend legitimacy to the administration’s efforts to diversify the military's sources of energy.
The strategy goes on to tout domestic and international efforts to fight climate change, as outlined in Obama’s 2013 Climate Action Plan.
“America is leading efforts at home and with the international community to confront this challenge,” the document says. “We are also working to strengthen resilience and address vulnerabilities to climate impacts.”
The White House also calls for more efforts to increase energy security.
“Seismic shifts in supply and demand are underway across the globe,” it says. “Increasing global access to reliable and affordable energy is one of the most powerful ways to support social and economic development and to help build new markets for U.S. technology and investment.”
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz underscored the importance of energy security in his own statement on the plan.
“Now more than ever, it is critical for us to focus our efforts to cooperate on security issues that are increasingly critical to the stability of global markets and underscore the risk of relying on one source of energy,” he said.
“At the same time, collective action on security also presents an opportunity to diversify our low-carbon energy options, combat climate change, and strengthen our economies.”
Haven’t you a-holes in the white house heard? There are no existential threats to America.
yawn , Zzzzzzzz
And the solution is taxes!
For climate change we should practice ‘Strategic Patience’
This a-hole president has doubled down on stupid.
Today Global Warming is back
Tomorrow the Salem Witchcraft Trials?
Who’s got that video of that blonde saying “right”?
$$$$$$$$
For the rare few on this site that watch Celebrity Apprentice - one of the contestants - an Olympian- was playing for a climate change charity. First opportunity Trump got when she was head of her group..he fired her.
As soon as I heard the charity she was playing for I knew she was a goner.
Yeah, climate change burns people and chops off people’s heads. I’m really afraid of the weather. It’s so scary.
“We must make the world safe for communism, or God will never forgive us.” — apocryphally attributed to the dying Leonid Brezhnev
AH SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY, LIE HUT!
so they are not pumping enough aluminum and boron and other sh1t from their planes, in the air, fast enough?
and more clampdown on regular peon citizens.
GFY Obama.
It sounds like “da White House” has been hittin’ dem “recreational drugs”,
Since congress can repeal the laws of physics, why don’t they just make climate change illegal?
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