Posted on 03/09/2025 8:54:47 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
As the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set their sights on climate-related programs at the Defense Department, officials and experts are warning that slashing them could put US troops and military operations at risk, both in the near and long term.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior Pentagon officials have pointed to climate programs as a prime example of wasteful spending in the military. Hegseth told reporters in Germany in February that the Pentagon is “not in the business of climate change.”
Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses also made it clear that funding would be cut in a statement last month, saying the Pentagon will “cease unnecessary spending that set our military back under the previous administration, including through so-called ‘climate change’ and other woke programs.”.......
Making military installations more resilient to extreme weather events, for example, could save the Pentagon billions in the long term as wildfires and hurricanes become more common and more intense. In 2019, the Air Force requested $
Chaudhary pointed to an array of other issues caused by changes in climate: Wildfires delaying launch cadences at Space Force bases in the US; melting permafrost in Alaska impacting US runways in the Arctic; building natural and artificial reefs around US installations to protect bases from storm surges; and energy efficiency efforts by the Air Force to reduce drag on US aircraft and save millions on fuel.
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"Making military installations more resilient to extreme weather events,"
I thought that we are told weather is not climate. So to use weather as an argument is disingenuous.
*Top men, top men.
Yeah...sure it will. [/s]
Fort Drum has always been freaking “BioDome”.
90 degrees! Now it’s HAILING and COLD! Now you’re boiling to death, there’s mud and BEES! And back to cold!
How do they plan to make the place more resilient?
Put air blowers on the bears and coyote up there or something?
Run Privates around with fans or shovels to remove the weather events occuring?
Gotta keep the (electric powered) gravy train rolling…
Nuke the clouds from orbit. Let’s get it over with. This is a war we can win.
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ROTFL! Excuse me. When did we turn the military into a bunch of wacked out environmentalist freaks without jobs? This crap is insane.
This is a really easy cut from defense. Out right grift.
We must defeat the Earth!
“Officials and experts”... lol.
One thing I’ve learned in my 76 years is that “officials” and “experts” are normally full of .....
Exactly.
National security has nothing to do with “Climate Change”.
Experts, huh? That’s anybody on any topic more than 200 miles from home.
wy69
X is an unknown quantity
A spurt is a drip under pressure
I’m five years younger than you and I’ve seen it all.
I worked overseas throughout Asia, South America and Europe from 1976 to 1978. I read the extreme horror stories in the press about the places I worked and NONE of it matched my boots on the ground experiences. I learned in my mid 20s that the MSM was full of crap and the “experts” were anything but. As my career developed, I learned that the “experts” being quoted and revered were much worse than what I had observed in my 20s.
We must defeat the Earth!
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The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all
kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes,
plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic
storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles; hundreds of thousands
of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors; worldwide
floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring
ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans
are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the
planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!
— George Carlin
You and I think exactly alike. The only expert I’ve ever met was those guys who drive to where you work in a van, park next to your car and fix the busted windshield in 15 minutes. Those guys impress the hell out of me. When you live in Arizona, you always need a new windshield.
There was a satirical book “50 things you can do to Pave the Earth”.
It was a laugh at the time.
Unfortunately, enviros being who and what they are have turned things like “we really shouldn’t dump this chemical into this creek” into “We have to have Prop 65 labels on everything because California (and only California) knows this chemical causes harm to reproductive organs!”
So yeah, Carlin was right.
We’ll destroy ourselves.
Ah, yes. Prop 65, the brainchild of Tom Hayden (Hanoi Jane Fonda’s husband at the time).
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