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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Which prompts me, I need to get some black Tee’s (black T shirts) made up with labeling across the back as “Thinkpol” (or THINKPOL) sponsored by the “MoL” to parody this insanity …
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Another Tee shirt parody moniker:
“ENVIRONMENTAL-JUSTICE
TEAM MEMBER”
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The lights are on but nobody is home; she is the epitome of the term “nest sitter” IMNSHO.
“Homeland Security” – providing for supervision of the ‘homeland’ (read as inmates) within as opposed to harmful forces from without … as an aside ‘homeland’ as a term has always sounded retarded to me; not PC, I know.
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There is a reason – and it is not her size – why she is called “Big Sis”. And they railed at Bush for removing liberties. His policies were child’s play compared to what this administration has done – and in direct defiance of both Congress and the People.
“Big Sis” is a play on Orwell’s Big Brother.
My question is whether this is ‘mission creep’, or just a creep on a mission.
After reading WUWT for more than a year, where terms like ‘climate change’ and ‘environmental justice’ are quaint, laughable anachronisms, the news out of Washington, DC is like watching old black-and-white newsreels from the ’40s.
Unfortunately, our so-called ‘leaders’ are living in this strange ideological dreamworld, like the Politburo watching parades in the last days of the Soviet Union. Nobody has told them that ‘global warming’ was a hoax, that the war against ‘climate change’ was a fantasy.
Maybe it’s time to tell them.
/Mr Lynn
We would all be a lot better off if Janet would concentrate on The Growing Threat of Space Aliens, and forget about her other campaigns.
/Mr Lynn
eadler says:
December 20, 2010 at 5:58 pm
What’s a ‘climate refugee’? Someone fleeing from average weather?
Get a scare going. It doesn’t matter what. Capitlists, bankers, black marketeers, Jews, Muslims, Satanists, Communists, Fascists, Climate deniers, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Evolution, the Protocols of Zion, any weirdo you care to name. This is a national threat. We must respond with more security. I was amazed that the American people accepted the DHS so readily with its obvious dangers of breaching the constitution (for the safety of the nation, of course). What is it? Are the US military, the CIA and FBI not up to the job? Of course not. We need this overeaching organisation to keep us safe. Goodbye freedom and democracy. I never thought the best and last hope of mankind would actually commit suicide. Maybe the job will be left to England once again. (If we can get rid of these charlatan warmists).
Billy Liar says:
December 21, 2010 at 8:50 am
eadler says:
December 20, 2010 at 5:58 pm
What’s a ‘climate refugee’? Someone fleeing from average weather?
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Har! Next it will be “climate victim”. We are starting to see rapid movement by the US government towards “climate justice” I’m afraid. Get ready, this won’t be pretty. USEPA is already on the warpath.
I wonder how they’ll convince the Mr ‘bama president to borrow more money from the Chinese though.
Or are they going to act the cap in the trade? :p
She’s done so well stopping terrorism (oh wait, that was the FBI and some fellow passengers who stopped the Christmas day bomber – the crotch bomber – etc), she will no doubt get a handle on global warming/climate change, and with the help of her friends at the EPA and Health and Human Services, etc., save us all ….. from the reasonably priced energy that makes modern life possible.
Billy Liar says:
December 21, 2010 at 8:50 am
“What’s a ‘climate refugee’? Someone fleeing from average weather?”
No, that’s a weather refugee. A climate refugee is someone fleeing from the 30-year average of the weather in his home country.
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December 21, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Billy Liar says:
December 21, 2010 at 8:50 am
“What’s a ‘climate refugee’? Someone fleeing from average weather?”
Ah, stupid me. You already had the “average”… Forget my comment.
The sinking Alaskan Arctic villages yet another scam (what a surprise). The North Slope and the Northwestern part of the state is for the most part pretty flat where it meets the sea. There are a number of villages near the water – which is where the food and boats are (whale, seal, walrus hunting). The closer to the water you are, the less work it takes to drag the food home.
If there is nothing much to stop either the wind or the seas in a storm, the storms will rearrange the coastline on a continual basis – which they do. Throw into the mix large chunks of ice (late season floes) getting moved around by the wind, and the villages are in continuous risk. It doesn’t have anything to do with global warming. It has everything to do with where and what they build coastal villages on. You see the same action on the those that choose to build on barrier islands on the US Gulf of Mexico, as the buildings get lawnmowed by hurricanes on a semi regular basis. It’s the first rule of Real Estate: Location; Location; Location.
Merry Christmas to one and all from Anchorage, where we would welcome about 15 degrees F of manmade global warming so we could get above 20 once in a while this winter. Skiing at zero F or low single digits is more work than fun. Cheers –
Hi Janet, Brent here from the great white north, with a couple of suggetions as to how you can protect federal employees during “climate change” or whatever the hell you want to call it…
1. When it’s cold outside, wear a hat, a pair of mitts or gloves, a warm jacket would be wise and some winter boots…LL Bean I believe has all these items for sale.
2. When it’s hot out, wear appropriate “Summer wear” Sandals, shorts, Tee shirts and of course sunscreen
3. If anyone is unfortunately caught wearing the wrong clothing for the weather, I recommend remaining in the company vehicle and turning on the heat and or A/C relavent to the outside air temperature
Thanks very much Brent
p.s. My services don’t come free, but I help out when I can…
so if you could forward 50 million USD to an account of my choice I’m sure my advice
will be cheaper than any ideas and costs you’ll pass on to the taxpayers of the US of A
p.s.s. In my next email, I’ll discuss what to do if it rains
The Department of Homeland Security was created to fill the vacuum left within the USA when the Department of Defense stationed all its troops in 175 countries around the world.
If DHS is going to combat global warming, who will be left to protect the US Mainland from invaders and/or terrorists?
……. “climatic jihad”. Is this the first explicit admission that climate change is truly a religion?
My concern is that they will target the “unbelievers” (climate d*****ist terrorists) as the easiest and most visible demonstration of positive action.
DBD asks:
She’s not from California is she??
No, she’s from Arizona. Like me 🙁
Meanwhile, the US EPA continues its great leap forward:
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/20/20climatewire-last-potential-barrier-to-implementation-of-44939.html?pagewanted=1
Department of Homeland Security goes off the deep end – now plans to battle “climate change” in addition to terrorists
Does this mean that TSA will now have license to grope contributors to WUWT in order to ensure that they are not peddling “sceptic” propaganda?
” White House Forum on Environmental Justice ”
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Hunh?
Is Eric Holder, current head of the Dept of (Social) Justice, now gonna be able to sue God for presumed “environmental injustices” such as global warming, global cooling, or too much snow in Washington DC?
Hoo boy, this I gotta watch. (Did anybody bring the popcorn?)
the leftists just consider gov’t a huge jobs program – they think everybody in world can go sit in a cubicle all day from 9-5 and pretend to work while all they’re actually doing is surfing the internet, and that somehow all the real work like growing food, building homes, hauling away trash, etc etc will still get done….that’s why you get no account, incompetent buffoons like napolitano, biden, obama, janet reno, etc – all of these idiots who’ve never accomplished anything or PRODUCED anything in their entire lifetimes…that’s who’s running the country…