Posted on 03/15/2017 8:27:50 PM PDT by pissant
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves.
In unpublished written testimony provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee after his confirmation hearing in January, Mattis said it was incumbent on the U.S. military to consider how changes like open-water routes in the thawing Arctic and drought in global trouble spots can pose challenges for troops and defense planners. He also stressed this is a real-time issue, not some distant what-if.
“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis said in written answers to questions posed after the public hearing by Democratic members of the committee. “It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.”
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His nickname “Mad Dog” was made up by some reporter recently. His real nickname is “CHAOS” that he’s had for years. It stands for Colonel Has Assorted Solutions.
Pay attention. He’s not saying man is causing it, just that we need to prepare for it. Just as we have done for decades.
This is my hope.
Yet another high priest of climate change that will dish out guilt with every weather report? I hope not.
Perhaps he was recycling stuff already prepared for if he’d been nominated during a Dem administration.
Fealty to the Climate Change orthodoxy is mandatory and believing or not believing, all must profess a statement of faith.
What timeline are you talking about?
4.6 billion years or 18 years?
What about a timeline that's greater than 18 years?
NOW we find out Mattis is a 'climate change' hack.
Perhaps Mattis is a 'leaker', too?
WTF? TRUMP, GET RID OF THIS GUY!!!!
Mad Dog is actually Idiot Dog.
The guy is MAD....
Remember in front on the Senate confirms him saying he has no problem with gays in the ranks & women in combat. Red flag time. Be wary.
God help us!
No, this is the kind of answer you give when your answer doesn’t really matter. Determining the climate on the battlefield is part of the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield. Why argue with idiots when you can just feed them what they want to hear?
The climate is quite possibly changing, and the arctic will probably melt. But the climate has changed long before humans existed to be accused of changing it: volcanoes, solar activity, etc.
And even IF the libs were right about humans causing it, that wouldn’t mean it could be stopped by the West cutting emissions because China, India etc would be taking up the slack in more CO2.
IF the climate issues were to need to be dealt with, whether solar activity or human activity, the best money would be on geo-engineering, and planning for issues, like territorial disputes in an ice free north, etc. (Not on futilely cutting carbon emissions costing millions of American jobs)
“It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.”
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. He’s not saying “mankind is causing climate change”.
He’s saying the climate changes (it does) and it’s important to plan accordingly.
Everyone can relax.
What a FRIGGIN’ DISAPPOINTMENT! I hope, but doubt, that this was a moment of temporary insanity.
What a damned MORON he is! YUCK!
Man made or “other”...it’s still a DAMNED HOAX!
1. He’s blowing smoke up their ass. 2. You people are too quick too jump. 3. Consider the source.
It’s the same kind of egocentrism that had men believing that the sun must revolve around the earth.
The Sun burns more energy in one second than men have burned since the first Democrat found embers from a lightning strike and started carrying it around with his tribe.
His name was Al.
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