Pentagon Says Global Warming Presents Immediate Security Threat -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster response as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises.
The report lays out a road map for how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department will begin by integrating plans for climate change risks across all of its operations, from war games and strategic defense planning situations to a rethinking of the movement of supplies.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking Monday at a summit meeting of defense ministers in Peru, highlighted the report’s findings and the global security threats of climate change.
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My Comment: This is the immediate security threat !?!?!?!
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"This is the immediate security threat !?!?!?! "
Ludicrous, isn't it. I pegged AGW as part and parcel of energy politics about the time I recognized the fearmongering about Iran - an equally stupid ploy where proponents of disarmament are portrayed as 'the real danger'...and I leave assessment of the accuracy of that threat to your imagination, especially after checking on CASMII ... and Transcend Media's notes on The NPT TRAP...as another instance of use of the 'Denier' meme. After all, people who reject proclamations of scientific fact without accompanying scientific facts must be 'denying' such science, Hm ? ( Since credibility about soothsaying using culturally appropriate crystal balls is at stake, of course nonexistent facts which have not happened must be refuted ! )
BTW If Holocaust Denial rankles you ( as it did me, I confess ), then it is instructive to compare YouTube videos on interviews with Dr. Ahmadinejad ( a historian ) on the topic - noting the recurring questions and pejorative commentary.
Some notes from my surfing 'climate change' ( funny how the UN bureaucracy is named that and specifically charged with whipping up fear of it )
http://oldephartte.blogspot.com/p/oz-to-loose-ministry-of-truth-on-posted.html
Opit,
Every prepper wants solar power.
Back in 2010 Obama and fellow travelers went after preppers.
That wanted lists of names from stores that sold supplies.
The easiest way to get a prepper not to prep and to get them to watch foot ball is to make it very apparent the grid and all such systems will not fail.
Strengthen the grid against EMP.The really large transformers are not hardened. The really large transformers are made overseas. If the transformers were made at home and the one installed were hardened the anxiety levels goes down.
Push solar power as a pocket book issue. Encourage people to have solar power on their houses, where it makes sense. Support basic research not politically connected companies. I have seen solar collectors that were put up in the late 1970s and early 1980s during Carter's time. When the systems degraded over time and the tax credits were gone, they were gone. The country is broke. Tax credits may not be the way to go. But certainly talk it up ib=n the Saturday weekly presidential address. Don't talk preppers down. The administration did just that. After trying to collect lists of name lo & behold, FEMA suggest people have 3 weeks of food on hand due to hurricanes, tornadoes, magnetic storm caused blackouts, earthquakes, etc.
WHO HAS EGG ON THEIR FACE?
The hacks in the White House, puppets in FEMA and liberals!
Fix race relations. Obama has exacerbated them on purpose. One thing Obama could do is to offer federal aid or make aid contingent on police adopting body cams and how they are used. We need this discussion. Obama does not have to take a side on any particular incident. The body cams will get rid of some of the he said/ she said that allows people to,lie or make a racial issue out of a traffic stop or any encounter with the police. It will protect us against bad officers and it will protect us against bad people.
If cams get more uniqitious, they may become cheaper and standard for Neighborhood watch volunteers and off duty cops pulling security.
They say an armed society is a polite society. I will argue that sous-surveillance will do the same thing.
You get rid of racial tension or tamp it down and less people will want to prep.
Fix the border. 300,000 people crossing illegally is not a fixed border.
It should be more on the order of 30,000 or 300. Otherwise it is a joke. Rundown, arrest and deport visa oversayers.
You do all this and many of the preppers would rather tailgate at a football game or engage in some other social activity than worry and prep. I know I would.
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