Posted on 05/21/2015 6:24:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NEW LONDON, Conn. (Reuters) - Rising seas and thawing permafrost caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.
In a commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy, Obama underscored the risks to national security posed by climate change, one of his top priorities for action in his remaining 19 months in office.
"The threat of a changing climate cuts to the very core of your service," Obama told the 224 graduating cadets, who studied the impacts of global warming as part of their curriculum.
"It will affect everything that you do in your careers," Obama added, noting that sea levels were expected to rise by 1 to 4 feet (30-120 cm) in the coming century.
The Pentagon is assessing the vulnerability to climate change of its 7,000 bases, installations and facilities, many of which are on the coast, the White House said.
Obama highlighted damage to the navy and air bases at Norfolk, Virginia, from increasing floods.
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This 0h0m0tullah is enjoying his last 20 months in office, that IF he decides to leave, flipping the bird daily to the American people, police and the military.
He’s saying: “ya think I’ll talk about ISIS, the economy, or exceptionalism? Nope, I’ll talk about my buddies, Cuba, Iran, the Moslem Brotherhood, blacks, socialists and yes, the LGBT, FUN LOVING ALL. Consider yourselves lucky if I talk about climate change. Down your goddamned throats, conservatives.”
He can do that and he’ll accelerate doing it. Just you wait for his pardon list. Notables like O. J. Simpson, Mummia Abu Jamal and Joanne Chissimard (sp?) will be on top of the list of criminals, drug dealers, etc. especially when black, Hispanic, LGBT OR ALL OF THE ABOVE.
One can easily qualify for such a pardon if you can prove easily that s/he/it is an avowed enemy of the American people.
This happens when our “fellow Americans” elect and reelect a faggot run by a bitch, ValJar.
Meanwhile, the Grand Old party is carrying on as usual, whistling by the graveyard.
We’re in for a perpetual dictatorship, no doubt in my mind!
“Valerie Jarrett, the IRANIAN SPY in the Oval Office ! “
Spy? She’s the real _resident and no moonlights as the ayatollahs’ representative who is guiding EVERY piece of disastrous USA foreign policy to serve Iran!
ValJar is the Persian whip of the ayatollah that’s flogging 0h0m0t0llah.
Correction:
whistling by the graveyard.-————> whistling past the graveyard.
When he told Putin “after the election I’ll have more flexibility” is just more proof that the elections in this country are completely compromised. There is no way in hell that putz won the election legit. Anybody reading newspaper sites and looking at the reader comments could see the majority of people were against him doing a 2nd term, I even know liberals who voted against him. You have to ask yourself this: Are the MAJORITY of Americans far left radicals? Hell no, they’re a very small minority, yet the guy wins? BS he won. That’s why we need a 3rd party, both these parties Repub and Democraps are in for the fix - they are going to do everything they can to see Hillary is the next POTUS. 100% guaranteed she will be the nominee while the Repubs prop up a token RINO which will all but guarantee she wins, and if they don’t get the votes for her, they’ll just fudge them like last time.
What a turd brain...!
From a religious standpoint, there will be inevitable drought and famine worldwide, among other plagues, there’s nothing we can really do to stop them.
From a secular standpoint, we don’t really know with certainty what will happen and where it will happen until after the fact. We didn’t really foresee the rain and flooding in the Texas rivers in advance, only with limited certainty (detected the fronts, temperature and pressure changes, etc.)
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