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Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat
skipkent writes "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat [Wednesday] during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. 'The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,' Panetta told the Environmental Defense Fund last night. 'Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.'"
No one actually sees what is really happening to the climate any more, just what political advantage they can get from it. Because of that it has become just noise.
And conveniently bypassing Congressional approval too.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
The greenhouse effect creates conditions that will increase plant growth. This removes more CO2. You can TEST THIS YOURSELF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse
Now go ahead and slaughter me for not posting this AC. I can spare the karma for people who disagree. Feel free to ignore that the science is really split on how the global feedback mechanism actually works. Feel free to ignore that the oceans have not risen and buried Houston, like they said they would for years...
What does this translate into, in real terms? You know, contracts for Halliburton, Bechtel and the gang?
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Never been known to fail..."
When anyone who isn't a climate change "expert" voices skepticism on climate change, all the believers pile on, outraged, about how the person isn't qualified to be making such statements, how they're abusing their position/authority to sound like they know what they're talking about, &c.. (Remember Bjorn Lomburg?) So I'm sure we'll see the global-warmers express similar outrage about this, right?
And... "national security threat"? This is the same government agency that thinks that bearded malcontents hiding out in desert caves is a "national security threat." This is the same agency that spent decades fighting the "national security threat" posed by tiny little countries like Vietnam and Cuba going communist. I seem to remember an awful lot of progressives dismissing the lunacy of the War on Terror and the Cold War. So I'm sure they'll dismiss and mock this latest attempt by the U.S. military to imagine or invent new threats, right?
Right?
Liberty in your lifetime
...the oceans have not risen and buried Houston...
Yeah, that's too bad...
A new study has shown that there is a direct link between between the number of professional left politicians and the rate of change of global warming.
this is explained by the massive amounts of CO2 and methane they exhail.
1. The EPA will get it's own SWAT team.
2. Green subsidies will be moved to the defense budget.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
And that is human nature, and precisely why nothing ever gets done before it's too fucking late to make any difference whatsoever.
And THAT is human nature. The ability to believe dire warnings that benefit someone else without any proof whatsoever.
Man in inherently gullible, as you so aptly demonstrate. Those few simply asking for some small bit of proof are so often shouted down by the panicky mob insisting something "must be done" "for the children".
On the other hand the willing suspension of disbelief that is part of human nature makes it easier to enjoy movies so we have that going for us.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's the "War On Climate Change" ... get it right.
The only "obvious" solution is a complete government take over of all things that produce CO2 ... in other words ... socialism. People, Factories, Vehicles, ect ... all property of the state and may only be used if they give the ok, but not before they make you feel horrible about it.
Who cares that the US Debt:GDP has surpassed 1:1 and that true unemployment is well over 16% ... let’s focus on the climate and stop worrying about that whole economy thing.
Be Very Afraid: The Church of The Climate is getting it's own Armed Inquisitition.
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What do environmental groups need with fucking GUNS and private cops?!?!
I wonder if there's any way to petition our elected officials, to pass legislation banning agencies from having their own police force and weaponry...? I mean, as far as gun play and all, I'd trust the FBI or Secret Service over these other home brewed forces. IF the EPA needs protection going on a raid...they should maybe have to coordinate with the FBI...keep it simple and separate.
I don't like the idea of these unelected departments making and enforcing all these rules...but at least lets start and be reasonable and take the 'teeth' out of them a little by mandating they can't have their own weaponized goon squads....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
The average sea level rise in the last few decades has been about 3mm/year. So the sea level rise in the last thirty years has been about 3 inches since 1980. Your situation may vary due to geology. In Alaska sea levels are falling due to uplift of the land.
Take out a 3mm allen key and ask yourself, would you be able to eyeball that much change from year to year, given that the diurnal tides at Galveston are over two feet, and vary by several inches depending on weather and the moon. That's not counting the effect of wind and waves, which have to be averaged out.
You *can't* eyeball this magnitude of change without special instruments, even if it happened overnight, and you'd still need a long sequence of measurements to know what you are looking at. The practical effects of recent sea level rise are statistical, rather than directly observable.
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For most Americans it does not really mean very much whether these guys get more contracts. In real terms it means that anyone who says or writes anything against climate change, especially human caused warming, will be labeled a terrorist. Anyone bearing the label will not be able to get on an airplane, because terrorists are put on the “no-fly list”. If that doesn't stop such individuals from speaking out against this climate change terrorism, they will be whisked away to wherever the government houses terrorists these days. Guantanamo?
One of the inquiries you listed cleared the CRU because the statue of limitations had passed before they finally looked into the issue seven years after it was brought up. I'd hardly call that as "clearing up the issue". Of cource the EPA is completely partial and wouldn't have a side to pick either. I'm sure the rest of what you listed all get government money for continuing on the lies already as well.
You don't like what I originally pointed out because it completely colapses and invalidates ALL worldwide climate research as based on lies. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not true. It makes it a very effective debating point for me because no one seems to be able to dispute it. The fact that you didn't dispute it, except with fake "inquiries" and name calling shows how weak you are at debating the truth.
There is only one ignorant person here. I listed how climate research is actually done, you listed a bunch of name calling.