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Posted on 11/05/2021 10:19:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
From increased wildfire and flooding to new requirements for equipment and training, climate change impacts all Defense Department activities. This demands new missions and alters the operational environment.
A wide range of activities are addressed in the DOD Climate Adaptation Plan. Much of this is not new; the DOD has been working to address climate change for over a decade, and many projects have been undertaken during that time. A recently released Companion Document to the CAP showcases a selection of these projects.
The DOD has been integrating climate information into everyday decisions, ranging from the 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap and updated building codes to guidance specific to the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Work on Line of Effort 1, climate-informed decision-making, is well underway. In addition to highlighting these different resources, the CAP Companion Document provides information about the DOD Climate Assessment Tool and the DOD Regionalized Sea Level Database, which provide key information to DOD planners and engineers.
The increased frequency, intensity and extent of wildland fires are unfortunate realities of changing climate, and DOD personnel are central to firefighting operations on land the department owns and in support of firefighting efforts on public lands. Ensuring this is possible is one way the DOD is working on Line of Effort 2: train and equip a climate-ready force. The CAP Companion Document highlights wildland fire training operations across the military departments.
In fiscal year 2020, the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch taught close to 800 students from the Air Force and partner organizations and partnered with the Army Wildland Fire Program to deliver 12 additional higher-level wildland fire training courses. The U.S. 3rd Fleet, Naval Air Forces Pacific and Navy Region Southwest partner with the California's CAL FIRE Air Program on semi-annual training to ensure an immediate response capability in support of local authorities for emergency events.
While fires rage, coastal and inland flooding are becoming more common with climate change, as well. The DOD is working to protect military installations through Line of Effort 3: resilient built and natural installation infrastructure. DARPA's Reefense program is one example highlighted in the CAP Companion Document. By developing novel hybrid biological and engineered reef-mimicking structures, Reefense can mitigate wave and storm damage. Coral or oyster settlement and growth on the Reefense structures will enable them to be self-sustaining and address infrastructure-related impacts of sea level rise over time.
Climate change affects more than just military bases; impacts anywhere along the supply chain for materials and equipment could affect DOD operations. This is addressed in Line of Effort 4: supply chain resilience and innovation. Considering direct and indirect impacts is not new for the DOD. One example in the CAP Companion Document is the Air Force's demand-side optimization program, which works to optimize logistical support requirements — including water to improve resilience — and make supply lines less vulnerable to the effects of climate change and adversaries.
Resilient supply chains have good implications for the DOD's own climate impact, as well. Another example in the CAP Companion Document is the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Supply Center Columbus Environmental Division, where the Management System includes a requirement for identifying and employing source reduction; sustainable resource use; climate change mitigation and adaptation; diversity and ecosystem protection; and pollution prevention opportunities, where practicable.
The DOD won't be able to address the impacts of climate change alone, which leads to Line of Effort 5: enhance adaptation and resilience through collaboration. One part of the collaboration highlighted in the CAP Companion Document are the grant programs administered by the DOD that support community coordination with local installations on climate change and extreme weather: the longstanding Compatible Use Plan and two pilot programs established in fiscal year 2020— Military Installation Resilience and Defense Community Infrastructure. These build on the success of the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program, which partners with communities to acquire real property or other interests in land from willing sellers to promote compatible land uses, enhance military installation resilience, and preserve habitat to relieve existing or future restrictions on military activities.
The CAP provides a roadmap to ensure the department maintains the ability to operate under changing climate conditions while preserving operational capability and protecting systems essential to our success. This companion document highlights many of the ways that the DOD is already putting this roadmap into action and will continue to do so.
Imaginary solutions for an imaginary problem.
Remember when the DOD was focused on protecting the country from foreign adversaries?
It is another MARXIST LIE designed to CONTROL YOU, and the Global Population.
The military’s job is to kill people and break things, specifically people and things belonging to the Republic’s enemies.
Climate change is NOT part of their job.
[[Much of this is not new; the DOD has been working to address climate change for over a decade]]
And all your virtue signaling has done wonders! Why it’s changed the climate by how many degrees? (Not that a dynamically changing climate that has a,ways changed can be changed by man’s efforts, but just to placate the lying .eft, we will accuse them of not affecting any change at all, despite all Their ignorant virtue signaling efforts)
Exactly! The ones promoting this nonsense should be demoted for not understanding their role properly
The ones promoting this just got a nice fat $20 billion budget increase thanks to leadership from House GOP. DOD climate change nonsense is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party.
Yep. And it will be the one big lie in the end times which they use to control people and force them to take the mark of the beast “in the name of” saving the climate. Either accept the mark and worship the beast or continue being too poor to buy and sell things because their prices have skyrocketed because of climate change taxes rules, regulations and fines causing massive markups on everything, especially fuel and food.
Just went to the store to pick up some lousy cube steak for dinner- usually around $4 a lb when trum was president- it has doubled in price now that Biden and ilk have caused shortages, and we are just in the beginning of bidens assault on this country economically.
Yup. We are in a very bad place in this country right now. We’ve even lost the Supreme Court despite there supposedly being a majority “conservatives” on the panel. They screwed us over big time when they wouldn’t hear vote fraud cases (and also when they voted for bay marriage and bozocare)
Republicans are also mostly silent about the political
Prisoners being held with rights violated too. And most of the rinos view Jan 6 as the worst case of terrorism ever practically.
We don’t have a conservative party anymore. Just a few holdout conservatives amongst a sea of Rinos
Worked for the DoD for 31 years...there were restrictions on everything. Can’t even use a broom in an aircraft hangar any more. Its absolutely insane and a wonder we ever got the USN any of their gear back to them. The impediments it causes to production are absolutely crippling....and unnecessary IMO.
If DOD really cared about climate change they would immediately surrender to any and all enemies.
All military action (and training) harms the planet!
P.S. The Pentagon needs to turn off all electricity in the building—now and forever—this is a climate emergency!
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The increased frequency, intensity and extent of wildland fires are unfortunate realities of changing climate...The BIG LIE was described well by an infamous 20th Century despot......coastal and inland flooding are becoming more common with climate change, as well
...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.The question remains unanswered: Is DOD just ignorantly repeating the BIG LIE or are they responsible for creating it? Maybe it doesn't matter.It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation.
I am very afraid that the date and time the Marxist Democrats completely dismantle the US Military is FAST APPROACHING so we no longer have fossil-fueled vehicles to contribute to “climate change”!!
I wish they would have been concentrating on winning wars during the past decade
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