Posted on 07/31/2015 7:17:33 AM PDT by GoneSalt
Having spent more than 30 years in the US Marine Corps, I know what constitutes a national security threat. Climate change, caused in large part by the carbon pollution we dump into our air, presents risks to the safety of both our nation and our world at large. The threats of climate change include extreme weather, rising sea levels, reduced military capacity, and conditions that can enable worldwide violence and perpetuate terrorism.
To address this challenge, we’ll need to both prepare for the effects of climate change and reduce the pollution that is causing it. As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean Power Plan proposal is set to be finalized shortly, our country has an unprecedented opportunity to protect itself from the national security threats imposed on us by climate change.
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Cheney is the chief executive officer of the American Security Project (ASP) and a member of the Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
Deserves a barf alert and I forgot.
General “Trace Gas” speaketh...
The religious doctrine called climate change theory is indeed a great threat to our national security.
Because he sure didn't rely on facts to back up his premise.
The general did not write this speech. He was given the text by some publicity aide, and he read what was written. The language does not sound like it comes from a Marine general. Cheney probably either owes someone a favor or was given some bonus to read this claptrap. He most likely has no idea what so-called “climate change” is about nor cares.
Cheney is just another partisan Democrat appointee “singing for his supper.”
Looking for a second star.
Translation: Climate change weakens the military and strengthens terrorism.
More money & more government control. Funny how that's the answer for all our whoas.
For goodness sake, save this man’s pension...
Its not unreasonable to ask for few facts to back up this key assertion.
How much more carbon today than, say, thirty years ago?
Weak-minded moron. A sheep in sheepdog clothing.
Well, it might if somebody was capable of causing it.
We actually used to do that (black soot) but we stopped...unlike China and India, whose clouds of pollution can be seen from space.
The black residue lands on ice packs and actually causes melting.
Stupid ass! Trying to fight a ghost. This is what the military has been relegated to under Odumass.
Obviously no relation to former VP Cheney. Didn’t someone recently go to Annapolis to warn the middies about glow-bull warming/change/discombobulation and what they need to do to protect America’s ports from sea level rise? Dudes and dudettes. Most of you will be in/on ships. Your new home port will be west of the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains. Cast off all lines. Yes, I AM a DENIER!
"Most of the earth's land mass is located in the northern hemisphere, as is most of the earth's vegetation. During autumn and winter, millions of tons of leaves fall fall from deciduous trees and as they decompose, they give off carbon dioxide. The trees themselves no longer process as much carbon dioxide as they are in somewhat of a dormant state. As a consequence, the earth's carbon dioxide levels rise.
Throughout the spring and summer days, leaves grow rapidly and a great deal of carbon dioxide is consumed in the growing of the leaves and subsequent normal respiration processes - so the CO2 level drops."
Today its rare when the air is not crystal clear. We may not be measuring it anymore, but I would be willing to bet the bank our air is ten times cleaner now than thirty or forty years ago.
BTW when did they decide carbon dioxide is pollution?
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