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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Duh! Climate Change CAUSED the Corona virus! AND the flu, and all sickness.
You should see the latest article on Norman Rockwell out of I think it was Rolling Stone... attempts to link ‘the four freedoms’ paintings to conservatism rather than FDR style progressivism, completely omits that it was Democrats who opposed desegregation, omits Eisenhower, then attempts to portray a rabid segregationist known as a Democrat all his life and during several terms as a governor as an ‘independent’ because he once ran as on the Independent for political expediency.
Do we know how the climate is doing on the Moon or Mars?
Is the climate changing on either one?
Trump is a result of Climate Change.
“They see climate change as an impediment on their ability to fight future wars,”
Is that good or bad now according to the leftist proclamation?
Only dogs hear dog whistles dude.
No, but 97% of activists say it will.
LOL
Uh oh!
That doesn't bode well for the democrats.
How can you tax that which is wiped out?
No, its not the flu superbug that heralds the end of the human race. Its a warmer planet!
COVID-19 is saddened, deeply saddened.
You mean they haven't blamed the coronavirus on climate change yet?
You can’t argue with settled science.
You better or else everyone on the internet will call you names.
It’s so reassuring to see this photo as Post 1 when clicking on a “climate” story.
I look into those eyes and know that all’s right with the world of liberals and leftists everywhere.
LOL!! I'm already called names on some of those sites, and not over climate change.
:::Sigh::: So which is it this week?? And iceberg will slide into my front yard or my Kentucky house will now be considered beach front property?
or not ... check out this lie.
“Norfolk Naval Shipyard, one of the biggest naval installations in the world. Situated in coastal Virginia, it has been devastated by flooding nine times in the last decade, according to InsideClimate News.”
yawn. They need to work on their claims.
“He pointed to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which was pummeled by Hurricane Michael in 2018,
and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, which found itself under water during flooding that devastated parts of the Midwest last year. “
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