Media, Academia Freak Trump Removed Climate Change As a National Security Threat

Townhall.com ^ | December 19, 2017 | Cortney O'Brien

[tomkat]

This ain’t India.
The slaughtering of ‘sacred cows’ is a rightful part of the MAGA process.

[Grampa Dave]

Elite intellectuals yet idiots, who push the Gorebull Warming BS 24/7, are the real National Security Threats to our country and the western civilizations.

[alstewartfan]

CLIMATE........CHANGE.........IT’S COMING, IT’S ATTACKING........AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!

But until it hits, I’m buying me some beachfront property to watch it all transpire, yesssirrreee!

[usual suspect]

I wonder if Trump can remove “white people” as a national security threat??

[paulcissa]

Unraveling Agenda 21,one piece at a time.

[Eleutheria5]

If Donald is Groucho Marx, the media and academia are Margaret Dumont. I love it. Real life is even funnier.

[bar sin·is·ter]

I am still not tired of all this winning.

[Jeff Chandler]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Trump [claims} climate change is as an "expensive hoax" concocted by the Chinese.

I disagree with Trump on this. Climate change is an expensive hoax (no scare quotes needed) concocted by global communists, leftists, greens and democrats (but I repeat myself) to subjugate the world, enrich themselves, and transfer our wealth to third-world despots.

[SaxxonWoods]

Gotta love how the Left can be driven mad by meaningless talk and symbolism.

[xzins]

Any threat from climate change is thousands of years away. The president is supposed to deal with immediate threats

[ifinnegan]

Is Town Hall trying to be cool?

[COBOL2Java]

Climate Change/Global Warming ain't gonna mean squat once the atomic bombs start falling in your neighborhood.

[wbill]

It's all about risk.

The risk of something that may or may not happen 100 years in the future, and even if it does, may be rendered moot by future technology .... is difficult to get people to worry about.

However, "Rosina Bierbaum, a University of Michigan environmental policy scientist" and "other academics like Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University." have a very real, immediate risk. Namely, that people might catch on to their scam, and they'll need to start actually working for a living, rather than living off government (read: taxpayer-funded) grants. So, they're required to get more and more hyperbolic, as fewer people become interested in their cause du jour.

If people were presented the risk in that context, I'd think that funding would dry up quickly.

[cgbg]

Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University. "There's a big element of cutting off our nose to spite our face just because the administration doesn't like the words 'climate change,'" he said.

I don't think "the word" is the problem--this guy is no Oppenheimer, that is for sure... :-)

[EQAndyBuzz]

Just ask the scientists what is their plan to fix it, how much will it cost and what is the mitigation plan in case they are wrong?

Without those answers, there is no longer a point to fund them. They had enough time to figure it out.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’m still looking for corroboration of the “Chinese” part. That smells of fake-news reporting.

[Kaslin]

What does Townhall.com have to do with it? Townhall.com did not write the article.

[Boogieman]

You can bet your bottom dollar Russia and China don’t waste any ink on “climate change” when writing their national security assessments.