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Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change
An anonymous reader writes Rising sea levels and other effects of climate change will create major problems for America's military, including more and worse natural disasters and food and water shortages that could fuel disputes around the world, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday. From the article: "The Pentagon's 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap (PDF) describes how global warming will bring new demands on the military. Among the report's conclusions: Coastal military installations that are vulnerable to flooding will need to be altered; humanitarian assistance missions will be more frequent in the face of more intense natural disasters; weapons and other critical military equipment will need to work under more severe weather conditions. 'This road map shows how we are identifying — with tangible and specific metrics, and using the best available science — the effects of climate change on the department's missions and responsibilities,' Hagel said. 'Drawing on these assessments, we will integrate climate change considerations into our planning, operations, and training.'"
Can we get through Ebola, first, and then worry about whether coastal military bases might need to be relocated to higher ground decades in the future?
..to Spend more money on the military industrial complex. Nothing to help with emissions. It's all to do with things that haven't happened yet.
Because of climate change.
World of possibilities.
Now please raise the defense budget 12% per year, so that we may relocate naval bases to higher ground and do more maintenance on equipment damaged by severe weather.
Signed,
Colonel Trout
The military has a huge budget. Why not re-direct some of that to climate change reduction efforts? Solve the problem not the symptoms. Maybe it's because climate change is just another reason to grow budgets, grab more money... and perpetuate the system itself.
Helping with organizational effectiveness is our job.
...but plans for climate change. The neutering of America's military is complete. Thank you John Kerry.
The US runs tons of military operations out of areas incredibly vulnerable to sea level change. Of course there are the ports on the East and West Coast to think about, but what about all those airfields in the Pacific?
... we'll need more money.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
If i recall correctly, similar reasoning was adopted by Mr. Homer J. Simpson while addressing his car's engine issue as he proceeded to string a strip of duct tape over the blinking warning light.
How about a military that actually wins wars and focuses less on social experimentation? Obama is getting his ass handed to him in Iraq and Syria. The queers are really taking over.
an ill wind that blows no good
Pennies for food and shelter infrastructure. How many desalination plants can be built and operated for decades with the money that will go down this sewer? If there's going to be so much wind and rain, and sun(!), we should learn to harvest it. But it won't happen while we continue to vote for charming psychopaths.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
US Military could count as it's own country in oil usage. They also do a fair bit with reusable energy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
And I know several other projects. But for Military readiness, it would be nice if they put a few billion more into supporting something like algae biodiesel or fusion and a few billion less into one more aircraft carrier (correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the current fleet has around 11, more than the rest of the world combined?)
Off the top of my head, America's strategic reserve can cover fuel use for 60 days. However, since the biggest threat to America isn't any type of invasion force (no viable one exists), it would likely be economic and since the days of Hurricane Katrina, we've been shown to be unable to cope with peoples' extended needs.
So the Leadership's strategy should be to wean the country off of it's most dire dependencies. It should almost be the military's strategy as it would only positively effect them, but that runs counter to global force projection and stamping out the latest fires around the world.
There is no such as 'catastrophic man-made global warming', which is why the LIARS renamed it 'climate change', which means something completely different.
www.climatedepot.com
As for the liberal cretins who believe this nonsense while patting themselves on the backs about how 'caring' they are - you're all idiots. Like 'Charliemopps' above - what a douchebag. Carbon dioxide doesn't cause 'global warming' and there IS no 'global warming' occurring, you ignorant, bandwagon jumping cretin. Get off the internet.
He moronically spewed that because of one nurse contracting ebola, that "Ebola is spreading in the US". What a fucking fearmongering new world order BITCH you are, fucking Wolf LOL
Funny to see a branch of the US government that actually has to deal with reality.
Mine shafts
Have gnu, will travel.
from the worst CIC in the history of the United States.
To me this just looks like a way to get defense contractors' snouts into the rich green money trough.
The Americans won't admit it, but many citizens have tested what falls form the sky and know some rogue faction of their government are chemtrailing to control the weather, create droughts, strengthen and steer storms etc. to push their alarmist agenda and feed the Chicago Mercantile weather futures.
+1
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Extraordinary rendition of the Gods! We'll heave ordnance farther than Icarus dared. Beat, smash, destroy!
Problem solved.
If you haven't been around MIC companies, you might not recognize the pattern. On the one hand, their business is to kill on command. On the other hand, they get forced to follow every liberal trend that comes along. Thus, I found myself at one point in an office where people joked about the monthly shipment of propaganda posters coming from the home office. Usually it was something about "diversity", but that was a while ago. I can just see the "climate change" posters coming now. Never mind that they chopped down a tree and Fedex'd the poster. They're just shoe-horning the latest liberal fad into the MIC. It was sad and funny at the same time.
Of course! Just bomb climate change into submission. Why didn't we think of this sooner?
'Murrica.
Climate change is just another attempt to dissolve nations, cause the industrialized ones to give money to the U.N. (useless nations) Climate change is called SEASONS for most INTELLIGENT people. The SUN controls our climate, not man, but, the "scientist" and pinheads in academia who couldn't hold a job in private industry, so they just "teach" (those than can do, those that can't, teach) only know what is in a book, and most of them are non believers in God, so they just spout their garbage.
....... It could actually be good if they start pouring bucks to control the climate rather than useless things such as F22.
Really Ebola isn't all that bad and it just might make people think a bit. Every day our immune systems face too many attacks. We reject most of the attacks and any losses are subtle and probably not noticable at all. But international travel is causing way too many attacks upon our immune systems and at a certain point we weaken and are vulnerable to any common germ or virus. In order to curtail all too frequent exposures to diseases we need to ban long distance travel almost completely. Or another alternative would be isolation of returning travelers for a month or two. But allowing tourism for tourism's sake is not wise at all. Jet air craft and ocean liners pollute extensively which weakens human health. It is also a waste of natural resources. And then on top of that it amounts to a high speed sickness delivery system. Then we have national security issues as well. Those cute chinese toys that load our kids brains with lead are an example. Imported food contains god knows what. All in all we need to use our TVs more and stop running all over the planet. We really do rape the environment and we are paying the price.
The reason we fear Climate change is because we have a limited understanding of weather. The current weather forecasting techniques are missing an important variable. I know what is missing and will help for one billion dollars.
to reply to my own post... a friend of mine went down to work as a nurse in Galveston Texas ( from Canada ) and was so disgusted with the way they handled non-insured patients that she had to quit. This was 20 years ago now and I'm sure they have a few more issues to tip-toe around to avoid those without insurance.
What about San Francisco?
Neither?
Then most coastal US military bases are probably fine too. There might be some on a couple pacific islands that are having a hard time... but I believe the last time I checked every single one of them was due to erosion and not the rising of global sea levels.
Furthermore, what are we talking about as of now?... 7 centimeters or something? Any harbor that could be made viable or non-viable by 7 fucking centimeters was an accident waiting to happen in the first place. I'm quite sure that the vast majority of harbors have far more robust tolerances.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
And how exactly do you propose we fund these so-called "oceans"?
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Another global warming story by Samzenpus! No agenda there, right?
Because #poisoningthewell was already taken.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
Shortage of food? I don't think so. With global warming, won't the vast areas of Canadian and Russian tundra will be available for food production? The lower lying Florida and other coastal areas that might flood are miniscule by comparison.
That begs the question, does our failure to evacuate coastal cities prove that our military bases are safe? The answer to that question is no. In fact, the fact that we are not evacuating coastal cities does not prove anything. That's because there's no evidence that we will evacuate cities when we should. In fact, the global pattern is to ignore problems until they become unignorable, with few exceptions.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
it's simply doing the right thing instead of pandering to the irrational fears of bigots that are using any excuse they can come up with to drag everyone else down to their level.
From what I get is that some folks are using very old (40yo), dirty coal power plants that do not meet the new standards. If they don't upgrade these plants or build new ones that aren't as dirty... then yes, they will have to shut the existing plants down. tl;dr Basically, the coal power plant folks are whining about how they will have to spend money to upgrade their plants to meet the new regs.
Why is every other article in Slashdot about global warming? Is it 1992 again? Is the Slashdot audience suddenly a bunch of college kids?
See the "No Warming For 15 Years" meme.
Did you think ANYONE would believe your load of shite there?
Really?
and is not going to shoot at eclipses any more, to try and kill the dragons? excellent.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
As the US continues to decline we may well reach a tipping point at which riots and crime begin to run rampant. Food prices have increased severely enough already to induce anger and fear in the public. A loss of security in employment, loss of wealth due to the housing crash as well as a right wing infested congress may be just enough to cause serious chaos in the streets. With the wealthy not being prosecuted and a government unwilling to follow the law the conditions are just to ripe for a revolution or chaos. The use of torture on POWs has lost the moral high ground for the US government. Corporations do not have the respect or loyalty from most people. We have a justice system that functions wretchedly. Anyone that can recall 1970 knows how fast radical movements can grow and have massive effects upon the system. Food prices in Mexico already caused riots. The effects of pollution and global warming will push food at ever higher prices and water is becomming an ever more serious issue as well. I fear that the stage is set for a nasty era.
Remember, the Pentagon also has plans on how to fight the Zombie Apocalypse and invasion by aliens.
A question for everyone who thinks that CO2 controls the climate. How long with rising CO2 and flat or falling temperatures before you admit your theory is wrong? 20 years? 30? Never?
All 5 of the major datasets (RSS, UAH, HadCRUT4, GISS, NCDC) show no warming for between 14 and almost 18 years. In that time CO2 has risen 8-10%.
Here are 2 predictions. First I predict that CO2 will continue to increase because China and other countries don't care about CO2. They don't even care about real pollutants much less CO2. Second I predict it will get colder over the next 20-30 years. Why?
Dr Libby in the 1970s said that "looking forward it will stay cold until the mid 80s (it did), then it will warm by about 1/4 degree F until the end of the century (it did), then it gets cold". When asked how cold she was predicting a 1-2 degree F drop with an outside chance of a 3-4 degree drop.
Dr Easterbrook in 2001 said the PDO was done it's positive warm cycle and that we were in for 25-30 years of cold weather. How cold? We have his good, bad and ugly predictions based on previous negative cold phases of the PDO.
Dr Abdusamatov in 2006 said we are at the top of the temperature sine wave and it will be 200 years of cold weather.
Why do I join with them and side with their predictions? While past performance is not a guarantee of future correctness it is a lot better record than the IPCC and their dozens of models of which none have been accurate. They are all based on CO2 controlling the climate and the other 3 are all cyclical natural cycles. I'll go with those who have a good track record at predicting future climate. Dr Libby is the most impressive as her prediction is 30+ years going and still accurate.
For a very informative view on why the climate models are broken beyond belief I highly recommend an article from Dr Brown at Duke:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/06/real-science-debates-are-not-rare/
... I heard they plan to blow it up. That usually works in 'Murica.
I cannot help but point out we are now almost 20 years into a period when not one single solitary climate model has successfully predicted what actually happened, which was essentially, nothing. How, exactly, is the Pentagon planning to do nothing? With Hagel in charge, my guess would be "with a whole shitload of money that won't increase our military capability but will, in fact, hobble it as much as possible."
Isn't there something they could shoot to stop global warming? They're pretty good at shooting stuff... blowing stuff up, too.
Semper Absurda indeed, Devil dog.....
Best response I've seen to shut down the Archangel all day. Bravo! The ironically funny part you may not be aware of is that ol Mike there is also masturbating in his doomsday shelter while watching Rand porn. He can't deny it, anyone who reads threads after threads on /. knows what his political bent is, and he's not a fucking hippy liberal I can assure you.
"acknowledge climate change" now?
Shouldn't the military be banned from planning for something that is clearly the result of left-wing hippie hysteria?
...it's the only way to be sure!