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The U.S. Air Force has released its first plan to reduce its carbon footprint and adapt to climate change
NBC News / Comcast ^ | October 5, 2022 | By Lucas Thompson

Posted on 10/05/2022 12:22:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials released a climate action plan Wednesday that includes a goal of operating bases at net-zero emissions by 2046, an ambitious effort to rein in the sizable carbon footprint of the U.S. military’s air wing.

The plan released Wednesday is the first of its kind in Air Force history and joins a growing list of acknowledgments from U.S. armed forces that they will have to make changes as climate change intensifies.

The plan also aims to include, within the next two years, climate considerations into the way it educates and trains Air Force and Space Force personnel.

“I want them to get to a place where, as they make decisions, even at the tactical level down at the base, they make those decisions based upon what risks and effects climate change can have on the ability of them doing their job every day,” Oshiba said.

The most ambitious goal in the plan is to shift the department away from its reliance on fossil fuels as both aviation fuel and as an energy source, something crucial for meeting the lofty net-zero emission goals.

“While the department cannot singularly reverse the causes of climate change, we can reduce our energy footprint and increase demand for zero-carbon-based energy sources,” the Air Force plan reads. “We must both reduce our energy con

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0chat; airforce; chat; climate; globalwarming; hoax; military; propaganda; socialism
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To: dfwgator

Speaking of laughing people to death....have you seen the old video of the experiment with British soldiers dosed with LSD without their knowledge? They got these kids tripping, and then sent them on field exercises to see what would happen...


41 posted on 10/05/2022 12:53:40 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why?

Their job is to kill people and break things - no reason to be concerned with ‘carbon neutral’.


42 posted on 10/05/2022 12:56:23 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: cgbg

Apparently

The death of the West by constant stupidity


43 posted on 10/05/2022 12:57:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This crap is going to get people killed for real. A lot of people.


44 posted on 10/05/2022 12:58:19 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hope this guy walks into traffic.
One less human carbon footprint.
Yeah, jets without aviation fuel...great idea.


45 posted on 10/05/2022 12:59:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

Yes. Insane is the only word.


46 posted on 10/05/2022 12:59:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So our miltary now has at least 2 sets of political commissars that commanders have to answer to: 1) Equity and (2) Environmental.

We need to develop a cool acronym like E2.

47 posted on 10/05/2022 1:01:09 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: TheThirdRuffian

There’s quite a few here.


48 posted on 10/05/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

Nation killing madness.


49 posted on 10/05/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT by es345st
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50 posted on 10/05/2022 1:02:18 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ifinnegan

The President as Commander in Chief has the plenary authority to relieve all guilty officers of their commands. Whether he can fire them or not, I don’t know. Washington, Madison, and Lincoln all took command of US forces in the field, under their constitutional authority as Commander in Chief. If you can command forces in the field, you can unilaterally relieve subordinates that no longer repose your trust and confidence. But will the next President *do it*?


51 posted on 10/05/2022 1:02:49 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Tallguy

They need Gomer Pyle style blanket parties.


52 posted on 10/05/2022 1:03:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is what you have when affirmative action, non-pilot’s are promoted to the senior flag ranks. Not a clue of how the world actually works. Harris is the civilian equivalent...laughable.
53 posted on 10/05/2022 1:03:34 PM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: quikstrike98

Deep state would fight tooth and nail.


54 posted on 10/05/2022 1:06:52 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Let them fight. And be crushed.


55 posted on 10/05/2022 1:07:32 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: quikstrike98

Yes.


56 posted on 10/05/2022 1:09:36 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Wasn’t just in the book. Political officers were a real fact of life in the Soviet military. Now, they are a fact of life in ours.


57 posted on 10/05/2022 1:11:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dfwgator
Your post 31: 🤣
58 posted on 10/05/2022 1:12:23 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t wait to see the first supersonic electric powered fighter aircraft.

And the fleet of remodeled B-52 bombers running on solar power.


59 posted on 10/05/2022 1:13:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: quikstrike98

I dont think Trump had any good idea what he was up against. Nobody ever remembers the massive purges of the generals under Obama.


60 posted on 10/05/2022 1:14:32 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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