Posted on 02/27/2020 9:34:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Climate change activism in popular culture may be associated with woke millennials and graying hippies, but some of the most dire warnings about global warming are coming today from national security professionals.
As the Trump administration has downplayed climate change as a national priority, it has increasingly fallen to members of the military and intelligence establishment to argue to keep focus and resources on climate change. On the whole, they treat global warming not as an environmental phenomenon or a moral imperative, but, rather as a force capable of altering the nation’s security outlook.
The calculus is, as it happens, more like simple math. “They see climate change as an impediment on their ability to fight future wars,” explains Michael Klare, author of the new book “All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change.” Klare says that bases in the North and South Pacific prone to flooding, and missile interceptors in Alaska are in danger from melting permafrost, and the U.S. could be hampered in potential conflict with Russia and China. “Their capacity to wage war is being degraded by climate change.”
That much is clear in a series of dire scenarios outlined in a new report by the Center for Climate and Security, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that considers global warming from a national security perspective. It depicts a volatile world where water-hoarding warlords and border-closing nationalists upend long-established security arrangements, plunging the world into chaos.
The report places the Pentagon squarely in the global warming fight. That fight has been largely abandoned by agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, where political appointees with backgrounds in the oil and gas industries have roundly rejected the scientific consensus on climate change.
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More people have died from the flu than from climate change.
I’m confused. I thought I was supposed to worry about coronavirus.
ML/NJ
doomsayers
so may people wanting to play
What do you think caused the Coronavirus, silly?
Cool.
No, no. The corona virus is being spread to wipe out wealth for the 2020 election.
Don’t scoff.
And I feel fine.
They misspelled farce.
Treasonous Idiots. Lock them up!
Corona thrives in cold weather, so it must not really be happening.
Wait, yesterday we were all gonna die from coronavirus, now its climate change..boy these douche bags cant figure out what is gonna kill us first
“Climate Change”?
But wait . . .
Whatever happened to “Global Warming”?
Unless some deadly virus kills us off first.
>> Climate change could lead to global catastrophe, new report warns
And monkeys could fly out of my butt.
A catustrofee!
A criseez!
I like to read through comments for articles on Yahoo news because it seems to give a pretty good view of how average people are thinking. I didn’t read all the comments related to this article - maybe stopped around 100 - but all of them disagreed with the article’s premise and most mocked the whole Climate Change issue. And that’s a good thing.
[[[I’m confused. I thought I was supposed to worry about coronavirus.]]]
Its a vessel with which to pile on.
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