Not content to keep to the terrorism prevention mission for which they were founded, DHS’s Janet Napolitano now plans to battle a religious war of “climatic jihad”. Here’s what happened the last time Washington DC took on weather in February 2010 (but not climate). The capital was shut down of course. Now that’s “environmental justice”. Look for pat downs at airports soon for those carrying concealed carbonated beverages.
From CNS News.
Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate Change as Homeland Security Issue
Friday, December 17, 2010
By J. Brady Howell
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – At an all-day White House conference on “environmental justice,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.
Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department’s recently created “Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force.”
Napolitano explained that the task force was charged with “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.”
According to the former Arizona governor, the task force would address specific questions, including:
“How will FEMA work with state and local partners to plan for increased flooding or wildfire or hurricane activity that is more serious than we’ve seen before? What assistance can the Coast Guard bring to bear to assist remote villages in, for example, Alaska which already have been negatively affected by changes up in the Arctic?”
The findings from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) also asked: “(H)ow can we focus on how climate change is going to affect our rural citizenry including those who live along our borders both northern and southern?”
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The conference did not define “environmental justice,” and the only reference to the task force that can be found is on the DHS Web site. The June 2010 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan states “climate change has the potential to accelerate and intensify extreme weather events which threaten the nation’s sustainability and security.”
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How will FEMA work with state and local partners to plan for increased flooding or wildfire or hurricane activity
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had best get the plans set for increased hurricane activity since we are experiencing about zero landfalls per year these days.
Total insanity.
(And how would AGW be “negatively affecting Alaska”? They mean “positively” affecting, maybe?)
“(H)ow can we focus on how climate change is going to affect our rural citizenry including those who live along our borders both northern and southern?”
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How about protecting them first?
Don’t knock the Federal Government being closed for three whole days, have you any idea how much money that saved the US taxpayer ?
It also proved true the old axiom that Hell would freeze over if the New Orleans Saints won the Superbowl.
How did the war on terrorizers go? About the same as the war on drugs?
dumb and dumber … don’t you feel safe now ?
This administration is insane.
The June 2010 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan states “climate change has the potential to accelerate and intensify extreme weather events which threaten the nation’s sustainability and security.”
No, the only thing threatening all of our nations’ sustainability and security is the sorry bunch of corrupt, self-loathing Leftist politicians and bureaucrats determined to take the once-free nations down by any means. Right now they are succeeding, and a lot of well-meaning-but-naive-to-the-point-of-childlike people are buying this bullshit.
Looks like these dummies are bound and determined to blow billions more adding to their already astronomically-sized deficit.
Start stocking up on Kraft Dinner, US citizens… your taxes are going up and your country is going for broke. It might be a smart idea to also start shoving your money into your mattresses.
This is no joke.
Perhaps the 70,000 TSA team could each take a tub of snow to work – this might solve the snow drift problem.
(I’m assuming that they are allowed to take their tubs home, and (obviously) that the body scanners could melt the snow).
And in reciprocation, I am sure that the snow plow operators could find a terrorist or two. (Well, a few more than the TSA, anyway).
This all seems very logical and efficient.
Next problem.
For ANYONE in the DHS (let alone the Secretary) to be spending even 10 minutes on CAGW. . . oops: Climate Change. . . oops: Climate Disruption (or whatever term the true belivers come up with after Europe and N.A. are (probably) totally snowed under and frozen this winter); is dereliction of duty in the extreme. She deserves to be fired just for this offense alone (not to mention the others).
Anyone remember this? How appropriate it is now.
The Green Police
” …the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice..” Whaaaaa . .?
I keep checking the calendar. It’s not April 1.
OK. OK. Maybe I’m just having a bad dream.
If not . . . . Dang. We’ve got two more years of this derangement.
Actually, this will help for hurricanes, global cooling caused by solar changes, and other weather events. The name is stupid, the idea is fine.
Now that the opposition party has taken control of the Congress, expect this administration to go completely off the rails. Two more years of this stuff, folks. 2010 was only the first step in a one-two combination.
This group is probably being monitored for Thoughtcrimes. Thinkpol and the Ministry of Love are watching you.
Homeland security seem to be engaged in empire building. In addition to their new climate change responsibilities they have also recently decided to become copyright police, seizing and shutting down a bunch of websites (without judicial due process). And they are also the bunch that are after Assange (not much due process there either).
This is a very dangerous trend. To aid their terrorist seeking mandate homeland security operate under much less legal constraint than for example the FBI. They appear to be willing and able to step around due process and the judiciary. And they have borderline fascist nutcases like Leiberman providing oversight.
I wouldn’t be surprised if their next uniform came with a brown shirt.
As the Japanese POW named Fuji used to say on the 1960s TV show McHales’s Navy, “Oy vey.”
I’m glad to know that DHS has completed all their planning and training for weather emergencies, terror bombers and the like, so they can now move on to planning for climate change. Makes me feel all warm and cozy. Why, the new TSA procedures have probably already reduced global warming by discouraging unnecessary flying!
How much is this going to cost us, and will it distract anyone at DHS from their real jobs?
I’m 100% behind the concept of Environmental Justice. Can’t wait for the Energy, Environment, Food and Climate Fraudsters to be stripped of their offices, funding and freedom!
What are they going to do about extreme weather? Are they going to make warmer coats, build more snow plows, and grow short season crops? Maybe they are going to regulate how much snow can fall from the sky and how much water can be put in a river?
It seems the free market is the best weapon we have against climate change. When the need for new products arise, someone will appear who will make them. And that is all that climate change means. Our spending priorities will change as our environment changes.
Considering that extreme weather has been recorded for millenniums, why are we surprised that it is ongoing? Look at all the peat bogs under the Arctic permafrost. How do they think the peat got there? Look at the various elevations of coast lines in Great Britain. How did the coast lines change so drastically in huge jumps?
Look at all the flooded ancient cities and civilizations off the coasts of all the continents. Now that is climate change.
Unless DHS has never heard of FEMA, I can’t imagine why they would need a special task force for dealing with such an ancient and obvious fact of life.
How about doing something to change the climate along the Mexican border?
Well obviously that border enforcement thing, groping grandma and grandpa, in their charter is too tough to do — so what is wrong with them chasing after a myth. Who will know when they caught it anyway? How cool is that?
I suppose they can cut off these funds for this stupidity as easy as for the EPA.
Guess they haven’t figured out the USA is broke. That’s the trouble with big government, stopping it. Even the insane over weight fat one …
thegoodlocust says:
December 20, 2010 at 3:12 pm
This administration is insane.
Some people knew that years ago. The question now, is how to remedy the situation. I recall the Obama mentioning something about more than one way to skin this cat (referring to environmental issues and the failed cap and tax bill). Meet DHS, the new ECO KGB.
They’ve never caught a terrorist and between 70-100% of guns and bombs get through inspections during testing, so it’s my opinion they decided they could do better by competing with the USPS…”handling packages.” This is fitting as far as government leadership goes because Napolitano has no experience “handling packages.”