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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I’m taking the invisible global elevator off planet.
Thanks for all the fish.
and the tools are:
“Instrumental to both publications was Sherri Goodman, a former Pentagon undersecretary for environmental security and, before that, a staffer for the Senate Armed Services Committee. “In addition to causing headaches for U.S. military planners, climate change directly threatens our troops and our capacity to defend ourselves in a dangerous world,” she wrote in an op-ed published with retired Army Gen. Gordon Sullivan last year (Sullivan helped author the new climate change report form the Center for Climate and Security).”
what is known of them.
The corona virus is being spread to wipe out wealth for the 2020 election.
Uh oh!
That doesn't bode well for the democrats.
How can you tax that which is wiped out?
They don’t care as long as it gives them the presidency. They’ll cross that bridge later
Check this typo out !
“The Washington report that was published on Monday is based on the premise that, in the near term (that is, until 2050), the globe will continue to warm at a rate of 1-2 degrees Celsius per year, as greenhouses gases trap the sun’s heat within the Earth’s atmosphere, causing it to become steadily warmer. That scenario presents a “high-very high threat” to security around the world.”
so in 30 years we will be 30-60 degrees hotter ?!?
roflol.
What a marroon.
We need more “warming” to kill the viruses. Around 88 F global average would do that.
With warmest regrets
“That much is clear in a series of dire scenarios outlined “
The only thing that becomes clear in a manufactured scenario is that all contingencies can not be accounted for.
“That much is clear in a series of dire scenarios outlined “
The only thing that becomes clear in a manufactured scenario is that all contingencies can not be accounted for.
The entire aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and, hence, clamorous to be led, by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H.L. Mencken
Our ability to fight future wars will be affected by climate change? Yeah, maybe several thousands of years from now, when the ice age returns and we’ll need more cold weather gear.
And the "new ice age" the same miscreants were predicting in the 1970s?
At one time, a flat Earth as the center of the universe was “settled science”, too!
How trustworthy are those measurements from 70-85-100 years ago? And a lot of the Naval Station and other Bayfront facilities are built on landfill.
He is also Third Assistant Editor for Herbal Articles at Rolling Stone Magazine.
That’s strange. Right across the bay is the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company and they haven’t been flooded once. Must be the dry docks?
First explain what is the absolute ideal temperature for the Earth....then tell us when it EVER happened.
Stupid statement about our infallible Pope...
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