Biggest Threat to Humanity? Climate Change, UN Chief Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/united-nations-climate-change.html UNITED NATIONS — Nuclear weapons? Famine? Civil war? Nope. The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, on Thursday called climate change “the most systemic threat to humankind” and urged world leaders to curb their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions. He didn’t say much, though, about the one world leader who had pulled out of the […]
Sec of State nominee Pompeo called Obama’s claim that climate change was a national security threat ‘ignorant, dangerous’
Cheers! ‘Zeroed out funding’ – US Navy canceling program to turn gas-guzzling destroyers into hybrids
By: David B. Larter 1 day ago The guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) transits the Atlantic Ocean. Truxtun will be the sole hybrid destroyer in the fleet for the time being because the Navy is moving to cancel the program aimed at making destroyers more fuel efficient. (MC3 Danny Ray Nunez Jr./Navy) WASHINGTON — The […]
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U.S. Threat Assessment Report: DEMOCRACY is a Threat to Climate?! Democratic Peoples Make Policy Responses to ‘Climate Change’ More Difficult
By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 6, 2018 | 4:30 PM EST The “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” which was delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee today by Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, says that “democracies” will find it especially difficult to muster policy responses to issues such as “migration” and “climate change” […]
Pentagon study claims: Climate change is imperiling half of all U.S. military sites globally
Via ThinkProgress by E.A. Crunden – https://thinkprogress.org/military-climate-change-d64c53236c28/ A new study from the Pentagon reveals that almost half of all U.S. military sites are threatened by climate change. The findings stand in stark contrast to the White House’s position on global warming and climate science. Around 1,700 sites around the world, ranging from outposts to large bases, are […]
Pentagon erases ‘climate change’ from the National Defense threat list
By Anthony Watts / 7 hours ago January 20, 2018 The Pentagon released a National Defense Strategy that for the first time in more than a decade does not mention manmade global warming as a security threat. An 11-page summary of the new National Defense Strategy makes no mention of “global warming” or “climate change”. The document makes […]
Flashback 2004: The Pentagon (allegedly) tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
By Paul Homewood In 2004, the Pentagon’s experts said climate change was going to destroy us all by 2024: Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, […]
CLAIM: ‘The Only Force That Can Beat Climate Change Is the U.S. Army’
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/09/the-only-force-that-can-beat-climate-change-is-the-u-s-army/ BY ANATOL LIEVEN America’s military is the only institution that can break the partisan deadlock on the worst threat the nation faces. BY ANATOL LIEVEN | JANUARY 9, 2018, 12:45 PM The precise extent of human-induced climate change is unclear, but the basic science is unequivocal, as is the danger it poses to the United States. This […]
CLAIM: ‘Climate Change May Have Helped Spark Iran’s Protests’
By Scott Waldman, ClimateWire The impacts of climate change are among the environmental challenges facing Iran that helped spark protests in dozens of cities across the Islamic republic. At least 20 people have died in the uprising, driven by the sudden collapse of financial institutions, low wages and mistrust of national leaders. Rising temperatures are […]