Pentagon To Unveil Major Report On Plans To Use Military To Combat “Climate Change”…

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Pentagon To Unveil Major Report On How Obama Admin Plans To Use Military To Combat “Climate Change”…


Hagel will also detail a new offensive to stop Bigfoot’s reign of terror.

Via The Hill:


Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will deliver a speech on Monday that details the impact of climate change on the U.S. military and the Pentagon’s plan to fight it.

Hagel’s address at a meeting of defense ministers in Peru coincides with the release of a report that will lay out the Pentagon’s blueprint on how it will tackle climate change, the Associated Press reports.

Defense Department officials have long said that the impact of climate change is not a distant threat, but one felt now by U.S. operations across the world.

Still Monday’s report signals a shift by the Pentagon to a comprehensive effort to address climate change head on.

 

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insanity

continues

doubling

tripling down

 

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Chuck Hagel is a fool and as such is the perfect man to carry out Barack Obama's fantasy. The last time I checked the military is for national defense, not for beating the drums for the snake oil salesman in the White House. General Dempsey should resign and not be a part of this travesty.


Go win a war Hagel. Any war.



So our military is fighting ebola in west africa and now fighting climate change? Do they still teach combat skills in basic training?




No but they are soon to issue Pink Camo gear for Gay Pride parades!

 

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soon the US "military" will invade the Wash Redskins offices to force a regime, err, name change

 

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[miles]

It's just more liberal insanity...par for the course.

 

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anything

but to win a war

 

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agreed

the real Generals were "resigned" by HUSSEIN nobama

 

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Everyone talks about the weather...Mark Twain.

We've made talking about the weather a major American industry. Ditto ebola, ISIS, jobs, the debt, school lunch, etc.

 

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America ridding itself of Obala can happen fast enough






Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a new Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Peru today, saying the Pentagon has “nearly completed a baseline survey to assess the vulnerability” due to global warming of more than 7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities.

The 20-page document details three “broad adaptation goals”: “Identify and assess the effects of climate change on the Deparment,” “integrate climate change considerations across the Department and manage associated risks,” and “collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on climate change challenges.”





“Initial analysis indicates that four primary climate change phenomena are likely to affect the Department’s activities: Rising global temperature, changing precipitation pattern, increasing frequency or intensity of extreme weather events, rising sea levels and associated storm surge,” the report states. “…The changing climate will affect operating environments and may aggravate existing or trigger new risks to U.S. interests.”

The report complies with a 2013 executive order in which President Obama ordered agencies to prepare the U.S. “for the impacts of climate change.”

“Climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’…because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we already confront today from infectious disease to armed insurgencies and to produce new challenges in the future,” Hagel said in his remarks, which touched on organized crime and the illegal migration of minors yet focused on global warming.

“The loss of glaciers will strain water supplies in several areas of our hemisphere. Destruction and devastation from hurricanes can sow the seeds for instability. Droughts and crop failures can leave millions of people without any lifeline, and trigger waves of mass migration,” he said. “We have already seen these events unfold in other regions of the world, and there are worrying signs that climate change will create serious risks to stability in our own hemisphere. Two of the worst droughts in the Americas have occurred in the past ten years…droughts that used to occur once a century.”

“In the Caribbean, sea level rise may claim 1,200 square miles of coastal land in the next 50 years, and some islands may have to be completely evacuated. According to some estimates, rising temperatures could melt entire glaciers in the Andes, which could have cascading economic and security consequences.”

Hagel argued that the climate trends “will clearly have implications for our militaries.”

“A higher tempo and intensity of natural disasters could demand more support for our civil authorities, and more humanitarian assistance and relief. Our coastal installations could be vulnerable to rising shorelines and flooding, and extreme weather could impair our training ranges, supply chains, and critical equipment,” he said. “Our militaries’ readiness could be tested, and our capabilities could be stressed.”

The secretary said the Pentagon “takes these risks very seriously,” and new assessments will result in the integration of “climate change considerations into our planning, operations, and training.”

The roadmap follows Hagel’s Arctic strategy released last year.

“To address the risks posed by climate change, we will work with partner nations, bilaterally and through organizations such as the Inter-American Defense Board and the CDMA. We will share our findings, our tools for assessment, and our plans for resiliency. We will also seek to learn from partner nations’ experiences as well,” Hagel said, noting that the U.S. has already completed joint military assessments on climate change with Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, and Trinidad and Tobago.

“I recognize that our militaries play different roles and have different responsibilities in each of our nations. I also recognize that climate change will have different impacts in different parts of the hemisphere. But there are many opportunities to work together.”

Hagel encouraged defense ministers to take part in the UN climate change conference this December in Lima, Peru.

“We must be clear-eyed about the security threats presented by climate change, and we must be proactive in addressing them,” he said.

 

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Did you ever notice The Fraud has plenty of solutions for problems that don't exist, but none for those that do exist?

 

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[miles]

Yep, we'll be attacking Winter in January. Tanks will roll against Springtime thereafter. Meanwhile Obama will continue to heat up the planet with his big ignorant mouth.

This from the NASA website:

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

 

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This from the NASA website:

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

"The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean."

Nice try. *pat pat*

 

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[miles]

Toe sucking socialists will lie about anything to advance their agenda.

Because it works.

 

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When will Obama start the air campaign against climate change?

 

[Busybody]

When will Obama start the air campaign against climate change?

tee hee

 

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The great cat catastrophe
by "Bishop Hill" (Andrew W. Montford)
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/14/the-great-cat-catastrophe.html

It has been observed many times in the past that there are many aspects of the global warming debate that reasonable people should be able to agree on: carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the temperature has gone up a bit, that sort of thing.

I think we can now add to the list the idea that Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway are a few cherries short of the full Bakewell, right down there with Peter Wadhams as representatives of the full-on-bonkers wing of the green scientivist academy. I say this after reading a review of their latest opus by Martin Lewis, a confirmed global warming believer. Here's an excerpt:

As the book claims to outline the “not only predictable but predicted” (p. 1) consequences of a fossil-fuel-based energy system, I will begin by examining the author’s actual foretelling. As it turns out, most of it is hyperbolic, going far behind even the most extreme warnings provided by climatologists. Consider, for example, Oreskes and Conway’s most grimly amusing nightmare: the mass die-off of dogs and cats in the early 2020s. Lest one conclude that I am exaggerating here, a direct quotation should suffice:​

ut in 2023, the infamous “year of perpetual summer,” lived up to its name, taking 500,000 lives worldwide and costing nearly $500 billion in losses due to fires, crop failures, and the deaths of livestock and companion animals. The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal (p. 8-9).

Within a mere nine years, global warning could produce temperature spikes so elevated as to generate massive cat mortality? The idea is so ludicrous that I hardly know where to begin. Domestic cats, as anyone who has spent any time around them surely understands, are heat-seeking creatures; native to the Middle East and North Africa, they thrive in the world’s hottest environments. Yet Oreskes and Conway expect us to believe that within a few decades “normal” temperatures across much of “the West” will exceed the tolerance threshold of the house cat? ...​

The great cat catastrophe of 2023 is by no means the only instance of risible fear-mongering found in the book. It would seem that there is no limit to the horrors that global warming will spawn, including a resurgence of bubonic plague (p. 30) and the creation of “viral and retroviral agents never before seen” (p. 25). Even typhus is predicted to make a major comeback owing to “explosive increases in insect populations.”
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The review is magnificent. Do read the whole thing ( http://www.geocurrents.info/physica...al-deluded-vision-naomi-oreskes-erik-m-conway )

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