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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Ranks right up there with the presidential order for the NASA outreach to the Muslim world.
Several bricks short of a full load!
Why not welcome this initiative?
These agencies have massive computer power, like NASA and some of the universities . However these will be operated not by climate scientists and activists, but by people who are not climate scientists but are used to taking data and extracting the most probable conclusions in the interests of national security (where getting things wrong could be very messy).
So the models and data run by the intelligence agencies will hopefully be run by people who do not approach the operation with a preconceived bias ( just in case that might be a constraining factor in some universities – hopefully not).
Come-on, even the intelligence folks knew they would get fired if they told him the unvarnished truth when they issued a false rosy report about the war effort against ISIS in the middle east. Think these folks want to get fired? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html
There is no honest person left in the Administration.
Wouldn’t it be delicious, if they all came back and said that the real threat to America, was not climate change, but the measures taken in the name of halting it?
Previously,warmists have cited alarmist evaluations by the Defense Dept. to try to convince conservatives the threat is real. Isuspect this is more of the same.
My bold.
“ parts of the United States that are threatened by climate change over the next three decades.
Parts is parts. Where’s the beef? Oh, sorry. The answer is zero. Or 42.
They will make things up.
Worst POTUS, ever.
The KGB must be delighted. Maybe Obama will ask the Air Force to figure out how to stop wind turbines from killing birds?
Agency Strategy To Combat Climate Change:
We will start considering options on Monday, January 23, 2017. The current contingency plan is to encourage friends and neighbors to vote for a Republican President.
Sincerely,
Common Sense Agency Director
The 90 day period from 9/21/2016 ends 12/19/2016. That’s plenty of time to roll out a huge batch of new executive orders / rule making on emissions (e.g., other GHGs), mileage standards, etc…. for example, on tractors, lawnmowers, chain saws, 2 stroke hedge and gas trimmers. motorboats, motorcycles, motorbikes, gas grills, four legged domesticated animals (bovinae, suine, caprinae, canidae …), avian and maybe even two legged humanoids (not all of which are domesticated based on recent activity). If they use the rigged revised Social Cost of Carbon rolled out in 2013 they will try to expand as much as possible the reach and jurisdiction of the EPA under the Clean Air Act, was adjudicated and supported by the Supreme Court in Mass v. EPA in 2007 making it iron clad law which this administrations has tried to get maximum mileage out of (pun definitely not intended) … are you suffocating yet, or what? The rigged SCC in the Obama / EPA revision in May 2013 by the Obama / EPA increased dramatically vs. the previous assessment which was completed over 2008-10. In particular the high risk / maximum fat tail SCC 3% – 95th percentile likelihood SCC increased a whopping $50 / ton in 2025 increasing to $80/ton in 2050. Of course the 3% – 95th percentile version is what will be used by regulators, shown here.
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Just more for the next incumbent to rescind. Perhaps an Executive Order saying all Executive Orders since 2008 are rescinded with immediate effect. If their content is seen as required by Congress, then they may be introduced as separate Congressional Bills in their own right.
Absolutely incredible,
if he had another brain it would be lonely !
New word for the dictionary
Obrainless.
B’roke-us Hinsaneless Obrainess
Obrainless
90 days? Pshaw!
90 seconds. Cite existing calculations that show stopping all U.S. CO2 emissions would have negligible effect on inflated climate change “projections.” No possible agency action could possibly affect the global climate.
Then again, having worked at a relatively high level in a Federal bureaucracy, it could take from the 90 days to forever.
I’m afraid that if I hear any more about climate wars and refugees, I’ll barf. Wild speculation.
If the U.S. military would have trouble fighting in a few more centimeters of water, then we are doomed to Sharia. If the U.S. military can’t protect its low-lying coastal installations from a few additional centimeters of sea level rise, then we are also doomed to Sharia.
Charlie Skeptic
Typo in Draft – should be Daft
President Obama Demands Intelligence Agencies Daft Plans to Combat Climate Change
Or even:
President Obama Defends Intelligence Agencies Daft Plans to Combat Climate Change
Maybe the Central “Intelligence” Agency can do an intelligent assessment and report back that there is no danger.
“We have just gone through 70 years of communism, so why the hell would you want to go back to that?”
– Vaclav Klaus
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.”
Vaclav Klaus
Have a look at this “key-note speech” by United Nations executive director Felix Dodds at the United Nations Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.
Charismatic preachers belong in a church – not in the United Nations – I´m shocked.
Sorry for being a bit off-topic and a bit misleading. Felix Dodds is not a United Nations executive director. See Wikipedia for presumably correct information.
There is no depth too deep for Obama to sink to.
Look on the bright side. They could examine and suggest extinction for all of the government programs that provide incentives for building where the alleged sea level will rise, and even without the rise, the storms, will and would do damage. The poorly thought out environmental programs have a habit of colliding with each other as noted just above. Send them a list?
Doesn’t taking an agency with the word ‘intelligence’ in its title and tasking it to deal with climate change strike our all knowing president as a contradiction in terms?
The Nobel committee gave him the Peace Prize from the outset for doing absolutely nothing; so getting a legacy one for global warming should be a doddle. After all the committee gave one to Al Gore for a rubbish documentary about the last polar bear on an ice-flow.
That’s a simple task for the intelligence agencies. Simple hack into NOAA and the other “climate change” agencies; find and extract the raw data; freely distribute said data to the real scientific community. Viola, an immediate decrease in the global temperature of several degrees C!
SMC said “A great deal. They’ll create a threat, just to be able to combat it.” Just what the Pentagon did during the cold war. It is called threat escalation!
A reasonable response to mitigate a known risk is worthwhile. However, Obama wants people to address the prophecy of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, which is not a scientifically valid concept in our chaotic and semi-stable system where human causality is not a global driver.
Obama and Clinton would do better to address the millions of victims annually of his Pro-Choice quasi-religion, [class] diversity schemes (e.g. racism), progressive wars (i.e. social justice adventurism), trickle-up poverty (e.g. redistributive change), anti-native policies (e.g. refugee crises, mass emigration), etc.
It’s not science and it’s not for the children (i.e. our Posterity).
“President Obama is asking 20 federal offices to work together on a national security strategy to address climate change.”
The first step in addressing a problem is to assess the problem. If this step is not bypassed the problem will be seen for what it is.
The next step is to asses possible actions to alleviate the problem. If step one if carried out reasonably step two becomes moot.
The next step is to develop steps to protect against unforeseen complications. If step one is carried out reasonably and step two is moot, step three can be seen as defense.and common sense.
“The first step in addressing a problem is to assess the problem.”
I wonder if any of them will figure out there is no problem to address? Probably not, if they have to deliver the report to Obama before he leaves Office. They know the result Obama wants and they will give it to him. That’s what bureaucrats do.
At least Nero had musical talent. And that a talentless Evita may succeed the current lunatic is a cruel joke.
Talentless Evita?
How about “screeching harridan”?
… a real tourettey betty!
Obama’s move is designed to give the climate fearmongers another talking point. Previously, Obama ordered the military chiefs to come up with similar climate action plans and since that time, there has been no end to the wailing: “See, the military thought climate change is such a big scary deal that they made an action plan.”
… “ parts of the United States that are threatened by climate change over the next three decades.”
How may States did Obama say there were? 57?
I am sure that the CIA and the NSA could utilize a very large budget increase to protect those parts of the United States that encompass those other seven States.
Unfortunately the US is becoming like all the other countries in the world. One war after another, permanent enemies, ethic and racial problems, and made up problems. To name a few. Some can say, better than most places, and I’d say, not even a minimum of what it should be. It’s like watching someone with a sickness get sicker every day. And every thing they do makes it worse.