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Obama: Climate change ‘serious threat to global security’
The Hill ^ | May 20, 2015 | Timothy Cama

Posted on 05/20/2015 5:40:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

President Obama will use a Wednesday speech to highlight his view that climate change is one of the most significant military threats to the United States and the world.

Obama will argue in his address to graduates at the United States Coast Guard Academy that the fight against climate change is a fight for global peace and against the conflicts that lead to war, the White House said in a preview of his remarks.

“I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country,” Obama will tell the new Coast Guard officers, according to the White House. “And so we need to act — and we need to act now.”

A White House official said the speech will demonstrate how climate change “poses immediate risks to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters and resulting in humanitarian crises, and potentially increasing refugee flows and exacerbating conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”

The White House is also releasing Wednesday an 11-page report on the national security implications of climate change, aggregating information from various federal reports on the subject.

Obama has highlighted security implications of climate change in recent months to drum up more support for his efforts to invest in climate adaptation and reduce greenhouse gases, including a landmark regulation to limit carbon from power plants.

In addition to the international problems that a changing climate can cause, Obama has argued the effects of climate change threaten military facilities and readiness.

The White House said in February that climate change threatens more people than terrorism, a position that has proven extremely controversial.

It led Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, to make a now-famous speech on the Senate floor in which he threw a snowball to draw attention to Obama’s comparison between terrorism and climate change.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; economy; socialism; wealthtransfer
President Obama will use a Wednesday speech to highlight his view that climate change is one of the most significant military threats to the United States and the world.

THIS MR. PRESIDENT, IS THE MILITARY THREAT!


1 posted on 05/20/2015 5:40:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No, Mr. O—YOU are the threat to our security!


2 posted on 05/20/2015 5:42:36 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
No, the government's extremely expensive fight and demagoguery against climate change is more of a threat than climate change itself.

3 posted on 05/20/2015 5:49:38 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is he serious? Does he believe that, or is it just a position he takes to advocate for more government control?


4 posted on 05/20/2015 5:49:41 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Dont be fooled. Those savages are carrying flags promoting “climate change.”


5 posted on 05/20/2015 5:55:24 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The refugee follows from N Africa to Europe have nothing to do w/ "climate Change" and everything to do the Obama supported Iranian funded terrorists happily beheading anyone not of the correct persuasion.

Refugee flows in N America are the result of Obama's promised feebies to anyone and everyone that can swim across the 3' deep Rio Grande.

To quote that insipid poser "make no mistake"; climate change is a Trojan Horse and like the Trojan condoms it will be used to screw the independent American citizen out of our rights and our wealth.

6 posted on 05/20/2015 5:56:08 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Pearls Before Swine

To advocate for more government control. Global government control being the ultimate goal of course.


7 posted on 05/20/2015 5:56:22 AM PDT by uncitizen (Pamela Geller - Peaceful Protestor)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

On what evidence is any such thing true?


8 posted on 05/20/2015 6:03:38 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Global warming is a hoax.Obama is doing a thousand things to destroy America.

Here is the worst in my opinion:

The Obama “trade” bill now being voted in Congress is the worst bill EVER. Just read some of the links I post here below if you don’t believe it.

This TTP/TPA Obama trade deal is a trojan horse.It’s disguised as “free trade” What It really allows is for Obama to flood the USA with an unlimited number of 3rd world immigrants ...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20710-obama-gop-trade-scheme-includes-unrestricted-immigration

It’s Obamatrade but also Obama Amnesty for the entire 3rd world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/dick_morris_fast_track_could_lead_to_unlimited_immigration.html

This Fast track gives Obama power to make treaties that override U.S. laws. Soros wrote a book on how to do this. So these “conservative” Senators are voting to give Obama power to rewrite all U.S. laws because treaties override U.S. laws. It’s the destruction of the republic. Proof here :

http://getliberty.org/oppose-trade-authority-for-obama-on-pacific-trade-deal/
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20233
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-the-death-of-the-republic/

global warming is not the threat as Barack Obama is the threat to America and freedom. Obama is the enemy of America and freedom:


9 posted on 05/20/2015 6:03:47 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Barak Obama is the threat to America and freedom and our jobs. Barack Obama is THE enemy


10 posted on 05/20/2015 6:15:16 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I will henceforth refer to Preezy Obola as President Climate Change.


11 posted on 05/20/2015 6:19:07 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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...potentially increasing refugee flows and exacerbating conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”

Not to mention padding the DemocRAT voter base.

12 posted on 05/20/2015 6:21:35 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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 photo Warmer Bears_zpsgl1k3cxl.jpg Trying to Usurp God's Plan.
13 posted on 05/20/2015 6:23:02 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Aren’t satire articles supposed to be plainly labeled? /satire


14 posted on 05/20/2015 6:30:33 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There is NO “man-made climate change”!

Contrary assertions are a hoax and political actions pretending to address the hoax are the security threat.


15 posted on 05/20/2015 7:05:01 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

OBAMA IS THE ENEMA.


16 posted on 05/20/2015 7:10:51 AM PDT by seawolf101
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To: RetSignman

GW post of the day!


17 posted on 05/20/2015 7:22:23 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Believing lies and delusions is the most serious threat of all. Colluding with others to advance lies and delusions is evil that history will teach to many future generations.


18 posted on 05/20/2015 7:23:10 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

The Left has been peddling this “state of fear” in the schools since the 70s - remember when panda bears first started appearing on yogurt cups? That’s when this effort took off in earnest.


19 posted on 05/20/2015 7:34:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: basil

You are correct. Although a good argument can be made that the voters who put him in office are the greater military threat.


20 posted on 05/20/2015 8:38:56 AM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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