Posted on 06/05/2014 1:51:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
Alice Hill, senior advisor for Preparedness and Resilience to the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, spoke at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on June 5, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – A top Obama advisor said at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Thursday that climate change threatens our national security, including military bases that could be misplaced by rising sea levels.
“It could, for example, affect our military mission,” Alice Hill, senior advisor for Preparedness and Resilience to the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said during a panel discussion on “Current Federal Efforts” to fight climate change.
“If our key military bases were severely damaged by extreme weather or if they’re just threatened by sea level rise so that we have to be thinking, ‘Where are we going to move them?’” said Hill, who was a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles before she was appointed as counsel for the Department of Homeland Security by then-Secretary Janet Napolitano in 2009.
Hill quoted Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of her remarks about the military and said climate change will “affect virtually every country on earth.”
“As Secretary Kerry has recently noted, climate change can produce effects similar of those of weapons of mass destruction,” Hill said.
“We know that climate change will affect virtually every country on earth,” Hill said. “It is, after all, global climate warming.
“Other nations around the world are also viewing this as a national security risk,” Hill said citing the American Security Project, which she said found 70 percent of countries around the world have addressed climate change as part of their national security strategy.
“We know, for example, that climate change will affect water security; food security, energy systems and the stability of our infrastructure,” Hill said. “It could, for example, affect our military mission.
“If our key military bases were severely damaged by extreme weather or if they’re just threatened by sea level rise so that we have to be thinking, ‘Where are we going to move them?’” Hill asked.
Hill began her remarks by describing her work at the White House and its connection to climate change.
“My work in particular focuses on the intersection of climate change and national security,” Hill said. “I work on the National Security Council staff, and let me make clear that [climate change] is viewed as an issue of national security,” Hill said.
Stop watching that Terrible movie WaterWorld
None. Not one. Our bases are as threatened by rising sea levels as by unicorn invasions.
We can only hope that they won’t flip upside down due to under current like Guam will!
This is your tax dollars at work.
You are paying this clown’s six figure salary and she can’t even juggle.
And what might our military mission be, besides the neutering that seems to be going on these days?
Oh, maybe Obama will have to start taking a boat on his World Apology Tours in the future.
Where will we move bases due to global warming?????
We are living in a giant lunatic asylum.
Judge Alice Hill to Leave Court for Obama Administration Post
Friday, March 20, 2009
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alice Hill yesterday confirmed she is leaving the bench June 12 to go to Washington, D.C. to become counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, her former law school classmate Janet Napolitano.
her new role, which does not require Senate confirmation, will involve work on special projects and assisting Napolitano in carrying out her job.
Hill attended law school at her father’s alma mater, and after graduating clerked one year for U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Young in Baltimore while her husband worked on his doctorate at Johns Hopkins.
The couple then moved to Paris, where Starr taught French and comparative literature and Hill became an associate in international law with a French law firm.
Hill and Starr returned to California in 1985 when Star was offered a tenured position at USC, and Hill joined Morrison & Foerster’s corporate department as an associate, earning admission to the State Bar the next year.
Huh, you seem to have a higher opinion of these grifters than I am willing to accede to...
“Are these people deliberately trying to put Onion out of business?”
Funny—BTTT
We are so doomed, again, maybe... for real this time, possibly...
Quite a lib bio, her association with Nappy says it all.
>>> Probably wouldn’t work to replace Norfolk though... <<<
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Navy actually LIKES water.
lets wait till the sea really rises more than a few micro inches be fore we go all chicken little here. In 1972 they said we would be totally out of oil too.
Rats, you beat me to it!
Mark
Well, Keesler Air Force base in Biloxi was pretty much annihilated by Katrina. Apparently they rebuilt the Air Force base right where it was. So if the US is concerned about rising sea levels, why did they rebuild the base exactly where it got wiped out ?
Can I have camp pendleton
i better work on that :)
You know my Mother-in-law!?
With these loons in charge there won’t be anything left worth defending with a military.
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