Wow, this is thick. What next? Climate research becoming classified?
Panetta: Climate change a national security threat
by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer for the Washington Examiner – Beltway Confidential
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C.
“The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,” Panetta told the Environmental Defense Fund last night. “Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.”
The Defense Secretary must have missed Examiner Columnist Mona Charen’s recent piece on how symbols of global warming aren’t working out the way environmentalists predicted.
For instance, The United Nations climate change panel “admitted that the melting Himalayas prediction was not based on science but on a 1999 media interview given by one scientist,” Charen observed. “They said they regretted the error. Now, a study in nature, based on satellite imagery, has shown that some melting of lower altitude glaciers is taking place but that higher glaciers have been adding ice.”
With reference to the story of an apparently-marooned polar bear floating on an ice floe — puzzling, as polar bears can swim for hundreds of miles — Charen cited a new Canadian study showing that the polar bear population is on the rise.
“Oh, and the scientist for the Department of the Interior whose 2004 work on drowning polar bears inspired Al Gore and others [had been] placed on administrative leave for unspecified wrongdoing,” she added.*
*But is now reinstated
Yeah, national security threat. That’s the ticket.
h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard
Weather has been a significant concern for the military since before Hannibal attacked Rome. It’s why we have “all weather” combat capability in aircraft and other technology and specialized training for troops (desert, arctic, tropic, etc.). Don’t get your panties in a knot about it. We got it covered. Also you might like to search on “Climate” here http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/ to get an idea what the big brains at the US Army War College think about it.
Panetta is just sucking up to Obama.
Wow, this is thick.
Clever, even subtle, actually.
What next? Climate research becoming classified?
And FOI that, you deniers, you!
Leon Panchetta declares that Climate Change is a national security threat, eh? I concur!
The billions of dollars wasted on this false hypothesis threatens the US in manifold ways. It distracts critical focus from real threats. It diverts billions desperately needed to rebuild our aging Navy, AirForce, over worked Marines, and excessively deployed National Guard. Our defense infrastructure is on the cusp of being met and surpassed in many areas by China. Within 5 years, we will be ‘playing from behind’. If this was not the deliberate desire of the Obama administration, it surely has been the direct effect.
We must act now, with alacrity, to ensure the end of Obamanation this November and retirement of Leon Panchetta to the Environmental Defense Fund or similar, where his global ‘strategery’ thinking will be better appreciated.
Yep, weather and wealth. Hannibal was able to field an army for the better part of two decades without financial support from Carthage because he had control of the silver mines on the Iberian peninsula. Before Rome attacked Carthage, they attacked Spain and took control of those mines. But bad weather can also save a nation as China learned during a certain ill-fated attempt to attack Japan.
But if you look at the LIA, it was generally a period of protracted conflict.
Obama can’t say anything about AGW during the election. But he has to have some way to pander to his groupthink panderers. So he rolls out Panetta to sell the repackaged product. Another great soldier. Forward!
They’ve got to be running out of ways to repackage this worn out product? Doesn’t he know that there is a reason to wrap dead fish in old newspapers and throw them out?
evanmjones says:
May 3, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Beat me to it, classified data is not FOI able so they create whatever data they want without having to share it.
“Wow, this is thick. What next? Climate research becoming classified?”
I can think of one Mann that thinks it already is.
Of course the Russian threat made yesterday to stage pre-emptive strikes on NATO anti missile battery sites in eastern Europe evidently isn’t a threat compared to climate changing as it has for billions of years.
Panetta may not have bothered reading the news.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/russia-threatens-strike-nato-missile-defense-sites.
Russia’s top military officer warned Thursday that Moscow would strike NATO missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe before they are ready for action, if the U.S. pushes ahead with deployment.
“A decision to use destructive force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens,” Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said at an international missile-defense conference in Moscow attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials.
Gen. Makarov made the threat amid an apparent stalemate in talks between U.S. and Russian negotiators over the missile-defense system, part of President Obama’s policy to “reset” relations with Moscow. The threat also elicited shock and derision from Western missile-defense analysts.
Did Panetta ask the UN for permission to fight back against Climate Change already?
Given that the threat of climate change has been elevated by my former congressmen to a National Security Threat- I think it’s time to fight the problem with a National (we in CA have paid enough already to go it alone) Value Added TAX on all offending sources of energy. I recommend the funds from the VAT be spent like this: 1) mitigation 25%, 2) adaption 50%, 3) a new administrative body’s overhead costs to make sure 1) and 2 are fairly, equitably and sustainably administrated. I leave the % VAT to someone else to figure out.
PS After a bit of reflection I think something like 50% of the VAT fees that are generated from folks in CA should be sent back the the residents of the state to help pay for what we have already done for the cause.
Maybe they just want on the gravy train.
I’ve let it be known that I don’t not like how the terror alert system was used to scare people. So I’m surely not a fan of these tactics.
Curiousgeorge says:
May 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Weather has been a significant concern for the military since before Hannibal attacked Rome. It’s why we have “all weather” combat capability in aircraft and other technology and specialized training for troops (desert, arctic, tropic, etc.). Don’t get your panties in a knot about it. We got it covered. Also you might like to search on “Climate” here http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/ to get an idea what the big brains at the US Army War College think about it.
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If Climate change is a national security threat, does that make mike Mann’s E-mails classified and therefore not subject to FOIA?
I would not put that move past these money grubbers.
If they do classify weather, sorry,climate change, as a national security threat then that might be a good moment to release the Climategate III emails…
The entire Obama administration is a national security threat.
If climate change is a national security threat requiring some response by the military does that mean that Obama will be instituting a plan to have the military round up all of us deniers and ship us off to climate change death camps?
Perhaps I am not clear on what exactly the military is planning to do to “fight” the climate. Maybe Obama can tell us more about just what his administration is thinking with this announcement.
This is not a new concern;
Crafting a Strategic Approach to Climate and Energy (2010)
http://www.defense.gov/qdr/qdr%20as%20of%2029jan10%201600.pdf
Navy Releases Roadmap for Global Climate Change (2010)
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=53562
Curiousgeorge says:
May 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Weather has been a significant concern for the military since before Hannibal attacked Rome. It’s why we have “all weather” combat capability in aircraft and other technology and specialized training for troops (desert, arctic, tropic, etc.). Don’t get your panties in a knot about it. We got it covered. Also you might like to search on “Climate” here http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/ to get an idea what the big brains at the US Army War College think about it.
Panetta is just sucking up to Obama.
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They call them weather “fronts” because the roots of the weather service is in the theory that sickness that might effect an army was due to “bad air”. I forget his name, but one of the pioneers in weather forecasting was doing his work for the military. (French?) He pictured warm air battling cold air. Where they met was a “front”. Panetta sounds like he’s not talking about how weather might impact our troops but rather that warm air and cold air will actually be attacking our nation.
This blog item is quite symptomatic of a much larger issue, no?
. WUWT TV would be a great place to elaborate on this subject 🙂
multiple choice question for our fearless leaders.
12.500 years ago the Chicago area was:
A) Delightful
B) A swamp in need of draining
C) Future home of the most corrupt city in the country
D) Being scoured by a mile thick glacier, moving south-southwest
SecDef is not the military.
Their conflation of science with philosophy is beginning to impinge upon reality.
I wonder what they think about dilution of the American culture through uninhibited immigration policies and unmeasured illegal immigration. Surely they would consider that to be a national security threat. Well, perhaps not in a democratic republic. With a minority position, they need leverage to consolidate wealth and power.
Yeah, it’s off-topic; but, far less than their corruption.
Jack McLaughlin
Yea but it only took a tiny drop of soap
Look, I understand the outrage. But this is a legitimate taxpayer expense. I want the leader of the defense of the free world to be comfortable and inconvenienced. Don’t you?
I’m not arguing against the false claim of “climate change” being a “national security threat”. Far from it. But that those imbued with the power and responsibility of defending the free world being accused of hypocrisy because they live within the bubble their positions impose is unfair.