Posted on 03/10/2025 5:52:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.”
But some officials and experts argue such thinking is short-sighted.
“I think they’re stuck on the word ‘climate’ and not seeing the operational impacts,” one US official said, adding that the cuts will pose “readiness issues all around.”
Dr. Ravi Chaudhary, former assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy, installations and environment, told CNN that climate programs are not just important to giving the US military an edge on adversaries like China, but they also help keep service members and their families safe.
“Inaction at this point will put our readiness and the lives of our troops and their families at greater risk,” he said.
Indeed, officials who spoke to CNN pointed to a number of programs within the Defense Department that could technically be tagged as climate-related but have real operational impacts on the military.
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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Wow these geniuses are delusional.
“We will make the gods angry and the volcanos will punish us”
Yes....no more solar panels on tanks...
A lot of the DoD budget was being spent on “Green” energy chimeras.
Good job Pete Hegseth!
I see Pete isn’t finished taking out the trash yet.
As they out themselves find a reason to terminate.
Defense Department, officials and experts paydays are coming to an end.
Most excellent.
Let them crow.
We’re not the only ones paying attention: POTUS is making a list.
Assuredly.
Utter hogwash. Nothing about the hoax of “climate change” affects anything with the military except wasted money and efficiency lost to the program implementations. Morons. You think we thought about climate change in June of 1944?
We have changed the definition of “expert” to “someone who is giving a slick sales pitch to push an agenda.”
Designers trying new designs for purpose of cutting drag on aircraft has nothing to do with climate change it has to do with speed and controllability of the aircraft.
I don’t care what Obama’s generals claim, I still think it’s a really DUMB IDEA to have our tanks and APCs running off of Lithium Ion batteries...unless, that is, we can have our enemies set up charging stations for us throughout our future battlefields.
What will we do without battery powered tanks and jets?
I think it’s not just green energy but another USAID money laundering operation. There are probably quite a few people whose “national security” is going to suffer.
The “experts” are all former Biden officials who put the programs in place
The only climate change they are committed to is making it rain money on themselves.
As Rush used to say, the military’s job is to kill people and break things.
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*breathe*
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I don't think we even had a climate in 1944.
I think the climate was invented around 1953, about the same time that color television was invented.
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