Links tagged “war”

Sec. Granholm: "This crisis in Europe, and the crisis our allies are facing and the reduction of supply of natural gas and oil from Russia creates a moment that we should be acting," Granholm said Wednesday in response to a question about Congress pushing a "clean energy" package. "We heard President Zelenskyy. We do not want to see any country that is held hostage to Vladimir Putin and this is a moment for Congress to be able to act. There can be a compromise. There can be movement on this. What the form is and what the responses are and all of that, that’s a conversation that’s happening but this is a moment to have this happen, it’s an urgent moment."

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"Not sure ‘Climate Change can be solved by war and slaughter’ is the winning message you guys want to run with here," Spectator World editor Stephen L. Miller tweeted.

The Atlantic Staff Writer Robinson Meyer: "Even a 'minor' skirmish would wreck the planet" - "I mean this quite literally. If you are worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war. That is because, on top of killing tens of millions of people, even a relatively 'minor' exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways. ... And even though the world would get cooler, the nuclear winter resulting from a full-blown global conflict (or even 'nuclear fall,' as some researchers prefer) would not reverse the effect of what we might morbidly call 'traditional' human-caused climate change. ...

If several years of gasoline- and diesel-fueled conventional military operations followed the global destruction, then the permanent consequences for the climate system would be even worse. That would also be true if society tried to rebuild by undertaking a fossil-powered reconstruction—and that would very likely be the case."

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But wait! Which is it?! Huffington Post 2011: Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming? - Nuclear war is a bad thing. Right?

Christine E. Wormuth Secretary of the Army: "The time to address climate change is now. ... I challenge our Army to examine climate threats, prioritize resources, and take swift action."

POlitico: "The strategy also set milestones for electrifying its vehicle fleet. It would go all-electric for light-duty non-tactical vehicles by 2027 and across all non-tactical vehicles by 2035...The U.S. Army outlined a climate change strategy Tuesday that included halving greenhouse gas emissions compared with 2005 levels this decade, greening its vehicle fleet, running on carbon-free power and ultimately hitting net-zero emissions by 2050. The Army's strategy comes after President Joe Biden's December executive order exempted the military from the federal government's 2050 net-zero commitments." 

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: “We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does. … Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act.”

U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia and Russia have increased, and gasoline prices are higher than they have been in the last five years.