Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Just how far does the President intend to go, with ordering Intelligence Agencies to combat climate change?
Obama inserts climate change into national security strategy
President Obama is asking 20 federal offices to work together on a national security strategy to address climate change.
Obama signed a directive on Wednesday telling the offices to develop a “federal climate and national security working group” to “identify the U.S. national security priorities related to climate change and national security, and develop methods to share climate science and intelligence information to inform national security policies and plans,” the White House said.
He charged the group with developing a climate change action plan within 90 days, laying out steps for sharing climate data, research ideas and vulnerability assessments for parts of the United States that are threatened by climate change over the next three decades.
Obama also asked the agencies — which cover climate offices and national security missions — to write implementation plans for combatting climate change.
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How does the CIA, the NSA, and all the other agencies in the bottomless government agency alphabet soup respond to a demand that they plan for combatting climate change? Do they simply analyse what is happening around the world, and make stuff up when it becomes apparent that climate is not a significant issue? Or do they try to look busy, by harassing ordinary people who oppose government policy?
The USA, pretty nearly all countries have experienced chilling episodes of over zealous government officials who abused their authority, when they succumbed to noble cause corruption.
In 2013, President Obama was forced to apologise when the IRS abused their power, harassing and targeting right wing political opponents of the President.
Ordering intelligence agencies to focus on climate change has the potential to take this harassment of political opponents to an entirely new level. An adverse tax audit is hideously inconvenient, but it is not likely to cost you your life.
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Obama’s SOP:
1. waste as many resources as possible
2. hope #1 causes a crisis
3. expand power
Fortunately this is one directive that will quietly be ignored.
Well, they don’t have anything else to do. Besides the political appointees need to look busy. This is what a modern civilization looks like. Just don’t call it productivity or earned income or hours worked. I’m still waiting for the executive order to study climate by the meat inspection agency and other crevices of the Federal bureaucracy.
A good enough reason to vote for Obama’s and Clinton’s opponent.
Which one the liar or the fraudster?
Vote for the honest and far and away most competent ticket , the Libertarian governors .
End the dinosaur broadcast age duopoly .
But a vote for Johnson is a vote for Hillary! Or is it Trump? I forget which one is it currently?
Years ago I may have agreed with you. But now we have a Libertarian Presidential candidate (Johnson) who believes in global warming and policies to mitigate it (small government?), and running mate (Weld) who supports gun control.
Tom , I think Johnson is open to rational argument about AlGoreWarming . He mentioned in the LP candidate debates that Harrison Schmitt has told him it was crap . I met him in 2o12 and he’s certainly more open to rational argument than the Duopoly detritus which are the alternatives .
A vote for the “Libertarian” governors will not end anything … at best, if there were enough votes, it may initiate something in the next election cycle.
Sadly, that something would likely turn into a sanders thing to garner enough popularity.
Watch the Johnson+Weld Rally in Seattle (9/17/2016) , https://youtu.be/6-TLR3PcOPg?t=1s . Drew Carey makes a number of points including that unlike , eg : Perot , the LP will be here stronger than ever next time and the time after that and … .
One thing , the contrast between their competence and that of the Duopoly bozos is so extreme it illuminates the utter corruption of the Duopoly exclusion of the choice which has surmounted the enormous hurdles just to get on everybody’s ballots .
… would likely NEED TO turn into a …
Weld, Weld, Weld, let me think. Wasn’t he the guy who wanted to be the ambassador to Mexico under Bill Clinton? More seriously, I regard Mr. Weld as a reasonable person, and I do vaguely know him. I was not all that happy with him as governor though.
Gang, its not going to be either Johnson or Stein. Vote for the ones left. One of them will be president.
“Gang, its not going to be either Johnson or Stein. Vote for the ones left. One of them will be president.”
I fail to follow your logic . Waste your vote on a dishonest doofus instead of registering your disgust — and voting for far and away the most qualified ticket ?
This should be an interesting reply thread. Just how much can the CIA do about a nonexistent threat?
A great deal. They’ll create a threat, just to be able to combat it.
The problem here is that these agencies are being told to take each global warming alarmist publication as if they are 100% unequivocally factual. In turn, the media and alarmists will use the federal agency plans in a circular fashion claiming that the very existence of the plans bolsters their argument. It’s like a blind man leading a def man across a busy street.
Imagine had presidents of the past used this much junk science for political purposes and ordered agencies to operate under a false reality. It’s like if the feds of the 1920-30s were ordered to operate under the assumption that eugenics was necessary for the survival of our species, the results would be disastrous. Welcome to Orwellian America.
As for the original question, ever heard of a false flag operation?
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/41-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html
“Just how much can the CIA do about a nonexistent threat?”
Then whatever they choose to do would be the correct action to take, no?
It just helps to have “an enemy without” and “enemies within”- all in the same imagined package. What a profound plan for propaganda propagation.
They have chased Jason Bourne around for 4 movies already and all he wants is to live in piece in a far corner of the world
/sarc in case it’s needed
Peace? Or pieces?…
Doh, that’s what I get for being in a hurry. Good catch.
Actually, the CIA has been directed to include climate change impacts in their threat assessments since the late 1990s. Clinton implemented it and Bush never rescinded it. DoD followed suit and include climate change in their 5 year outlook that drives all their procurement requests. This isn’t really all that new.
A nuclear winter ought to stop global warming in its tracks.
Round up the usual suspects…”Us deniers”
RWTurner has it right. The answer is this administration would create an entire new bureaucracy within existing bureaucracies AND this will enable them to go after chosen adversaries under new regulations with different headings … further expanding the reach and power of central government. The social cost of carbon and NIC reports were all planned out to fit the answer and storyline that the administration wanted; and it was carefully planned out over a number of years during the past two terms of office to fit together like pieces of a puzzle with hundreds of pages reports, charts, tables; and the revised Social Cost of Carbon manipulation planned to come together at the end of this year – last year in the current president’s terms of office to be used in the new national security thrust. The narratives are crafted in declarative fashion as if true without thorough unbiased discussion of the key issues of climate sensitivity, uncertainties, and natural forcings, etc. The last SCC report briefly mentions that understanding of water vapor, particulates and solar variability are not well understood but it is buried. See my comparison of the 2010 SCC and updated 2013 SCC below at September 22, 2016 at 11:01 am.
The 2010 interagency SCC report highlighted a number of important limitations for which additional research is needed …. “the need to improve the quantification of non-catastrophic and catastrophic damages, the treatment of adaptation and technological change, and the way in which interregional and intersectoral linkages are modeled. While the updated version offers offer some improvements in these areas, further work (is) warranted. Important is the need to improve assessment of risk aversion for SCC estimation as well as the inability to perfectly substitute between climate and non-climate goods at higher temperature increases, both of which have implications for the discount rate used. EPA, DOE, and other agencies continue to engage in research on modeling and valuation of climate impacts that can potentially improve SCC estimation in the future.
If this was the language (gobbledygook) included, assume that the true meaning and intent of the words is well hidden. Conclusion is — the update was completed with large known gaps and inconsistencies in the climate model projections and in non man-made / natural forcings e.g., water vapor, particulates solar variability …
Great idea Odumbo, take away resources from fighting terrorism. Worst president ever.
What fight against terrorism? The one they would engage in if they were to do something like that, or they one that they are busy trying ignore.
For some individuals; well at least for one, banging your head against the wall would be fighting terrorism.
G
The Obamination that is POTUS says that fighting terrorists only makes them angry with us and creates more terrorists. Essentially he is saying the problem is us, not them. Worst president imaginable.
“The Obamination that is POTUS says that fighting terrorists only makes them angry with us and creates more terrorists. Essentially he is saying the problem is us, not them. Worst president imaginable.”
Well we may get to see how Trump goes rattling the hornets nest. My bet is far more people will die because of his “tough guy” stance rather than the “Obamination” diplomacy. I’m also picking he wont be one of the front line who take a bullet.
imamenz
“Worst president ever.”
Possibly; but didn’t you have a sort of Pre-President, ‘Triple George’ [Thanks to PJ O’Rourke] (who was portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne), who insisted you heated your harbours before putting the tea in.
Massachusetts way, I think. Or near by.
May he have been worse?
Goodness, didn’t you nearly end up marrying the French?
Auto – coming to the end of the week, and seeking solace.
Any solace.
And Triple George’s grand-daughter cuddled the child who would be the last Empress of India – and SHE knew the Duke [and possibly the Duchess?] of Cambridge.
There is no terrorism. Just a bunch of irate citizens protesting a stupid video.
There is no global warming. Just of bunch of ignorant citizens watching a stupid video.
Just a bunch of inconvenient truths.
As a Brit, my thoughts exactly!
Watching movies of the Yellowstone supervolcano don’t count. Be original, but most of all be politically tuned in.
In fact, subing out the work to the Sierra Club is advisable.
I think everyone has underestimated how truly ambitious Obama is. Even me, and I thought he was prepared to go all the way. “By any means necessary”.
I remember the moment he won the presidency – not cheering, smiling, waving his arms. No, his was an expression of grim resolve. Kinda reminded me of Thulsa Doom in ‘Conan’. I didn’t have strong feelings about him then, other than knowing he came from academia and because of that, his views were likely much more radical, and certainly a LOT less pro-American than he ever let on (never mind the near total-effort to hide those college transcripts) – which is fine – it’s just not something I want in someone LEADING the country.
Don’t expect him to stop once his term is over either. He’s a man with a plan and he’s been setting all this up for years.
weren’t you tipped off when he and al gore got nobel peace prizes?
Some reputedly intelligent people even admit to voting for him; not just once, but twice !
To be a part of history, I am sure.
G
Thank them very much.
‘weren’t you tipped off when he and al gore got nobel peace prizes?’
Yup.
More than anything, his demand will be an excuse to grow these agencies even more and grow their budgets. Just another government expansion program.
I eagerly await the agencies’ conclusion that the way to fight Climate Change is to use desalination plants. We Aussies have several (that aren’t actually doing anything) which could be shipped to wherever they so choose (e.g. the Himalayas, Antarctica, Greenland, the Obama Library site).
Ordering a bureaucracy to to write memoranda full of meaningless gobbledygook is not exactly brave. I am sure that the security agencies will take to it like a duck to water. Not only that it will give them cover for not doing anything about the next 10 jihadists, like they did nothing about the last 10, all of whom were well known to them. Now they can neglect their real mission so that they can spend their time addressing a non problem, about which they could do nothing if it were a real problem.
Unfortunately, this is well within the President’s executive power to order… What a waste. Thank goodness he’s almost out of office. I wonder how much more damage he will attempt to do before he leaves. Hopefully we can keep Clinton out of office so these policies can be filed appropriately.
How to fight “Climate Change” aka Global Warming:
1) Halt all NSF funding of it.
2) Close Federal Department of Education, just after issuing a mandate that Climate Change be dropped from texts and curricula.
3) Ban foreign funded NGOs (already done by Russia and maybe India)
4) Honor Russian international arrest warrant for George Soros (as damages, confiscate his “foundations” money)
5) Replace DOJ Hacks and FBI lapdogs. Turn them loose on Climate Fraud funding.
6) Do NOT fund any UN operations remotely related.
7) Recind any treaty or trade “agreement” with environmental enforcement commissions in them.
8) Require ALL climate related govt and academic conferences be funded by personal payments from the attendees, including air fare and lodging.
9) Ban any tranfer of government money to NGOs.
After that, we can asses what’s left…
10. Directly repudiate the IPCC.
11. Pull the plug on the entire United Nations. Not just withdraw the USA, rescind the UN charter.
12. Order a full independent review of EPA, NOAA and NASA for the purpose of removing waste, fraud and abuse. Prosecute and jail those responsible for any crimes. Then eliminate those agencies as constitutionally non-essential, with transfer of science related functions to privately funded companies.
13. Remove funding or subsidies from any Green/Renewable programs anywhere.
14. Publicly declare in a statewide address that the addition of Carbon Dioxide to the atmosphere is beneficial to all life on Earth.
15. Remove Federal and state funding from universities that actively support “Critical Theory” schools and departments, all of which directly violate the academic tenure agreement of dispassionate non-political scholarship.
Obama is so unpopular that something Stalinist like this could turn most of the voters into skeptics.
16: replace the IRS with a flat tax.
“I Wonder how much more damage he will attempt to do before he leaves.”
A lot. Presidents are known for waiting for the midnight hour (in other words; when they have ‘flexibility’ because they’re not running for reelection) to put through their most unpalatable and unpopular executive actions. Expect Obama to exceed any previous prez in this activity. To my knowledge at least 70 of the numerous edicts will carry substantial price tags.
Fiddling while North Carolina burns.
time for golf ?
No exactly, with 90 some visits by Sharpton to the White House starting around the time of the Ferguson riots, I can help but think Orchestration rather than Fiddling.
“President Obama is asking 20 federal offices to work together on a national security strategy to address climate change.”
By “climate change”, Obama means Catastrophic Manmade Global Warming (CAGW).
Prez says:
Let’s all study the very-scary impacts of global warming, in a world that is not warming dangerously, has not warmed significantly in about twenty years, and is probably about to get colder…
$ounds $orta $tupid.
There is a real and present threat Mr President
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3071598/Putin-spends-5m-cloud-dispersing-chemicals-sprayed-jets-ensure-good-weather-V-Day-Parade.html
Putin’s also working on a wind machine, snow machine, rain machine, thunder and lightning machine, hurricane machine, earthquake machine and has cloned The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) so be very afraid.
Brings a new meaning to the term “lame duck”. Maybe ‘lame’ is a mental thing.
I think it means he’s quacking up… 🙂
…and leaving a huge bill.
90 days.
He wants the report in 90 days. Two important take aways from that little tid bit.
1. He wants an actionable report tabled while he is still in office and can take some sort of action on it
2. The report is already written. There is no way something as complex as climate change can be tackled in a meaningful manner across so many agencies in 90 days. They’ll all be under the gun to take whatever has been written for them and stick it on their letter head so that Obama can claim there’s a consensus. Then the executive orders will rain down.
Is there any way you Americans can advance the date of your election? I don’t care who wins anymore, just get this guy away from the levers of power.
If the agencies care at all about America, they will produce the report about January 30th and say “sorry we’re a bit late, it was complicated”…
I can write the report in 90 seconds, never mind 90 days.
” We have looked at all the evidence, man is having little effect on the climate of planet Earth, you don’t have to worry about it, Mr. President”
There you are. Now sit on it for 89 days, have a nice holiday somewhere, don’t answer the phone, put a message on your answering machine to say you are busy and press the “send” button on the 90th. day.
A long time ago a wise leader tried the same thing: Canute ordered the tide to stop coming in – except unlike Obama, Canute did it to show that no mere mortal can control the seas or climate which are constantly changing.
We’re doing such a great job of catching terrorists that there should be no trouble diverting resources towards catching CO2 molecules.
The good news is that he will be gone soon. The bad news is that in his final days he has become obsessed with himself and his “legacy” unashamed to use our taxes to give himself that “legacy”.
“Or do they try to look busy, by harassing ordinary people who oppose government policy?”
Thus ushering in the police state that most leftists dream of.
This should be a slam-dunk for the CIA. They already have the report:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/25/the-cia-documents-the-global-cooling-research-of-the-1970s/
They probably dusted off that old report, converted to OCR, and are now doing a search and replace “cooling” to “warming”.
But it was no where political enough back then.
Here’s your plan, B Hussein:
1. If it rains, put on a raincoat.
2. If it snows, put on a winter coat and make sure the treads on your car are adequate.
3. If it’s hot, wear light clothing.
4. If a storm is coming, batten down the hatches.
There you go. I figure you were planning on pissing away billions of dollars we don’t have to develop this plan, so if you could send me check for a couple million dollars, we’ll call it quits.
Plan A:
Board jet to Hawaii. Book morning Tee Time…
We already know he cannot handle an umbrella in the rain as he tried to walk under an arch with it open!
**How does the CIA, the NSA, and all the other agencies in the bottomless government agency alphabet soup respond to a demand that they plan for combatting climate change? Do they simply analyse what is happening around the world, and make stuff up when it becomes apparent that climate is not a significant issue? Or do they try to look busy, by harassing ordinary people who oppose government policy?**
It’s a good test to determine if intelligence agencies are utterly useless or not.
Obama has already proven that he is incompetent President, and as lame duck president it means little, but it’s significant in terms of how Clinton responds to it. So far Clinton is running away from this issue and running as Obama third term.
This is devious. Once climate is considered to be a “national security threat”, then by extension, anyone opposing resulting policies could also be considered “security threats”.
Can anyone else see a parallel between Obama coming to the end of his term and the movie, Dr. Strangelove?
Dr. Strangelove had better music… and a snack bar…
Obama is off key bad blues and sour grapes.
They need to tell that treasonous racist troll to just punt…