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.
…
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.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Just wondering what people here think of the report (just released) written by the National Intelligence Council, which starts off by saying, “Long-term changes in climate will produce more extreme weather events and put greater stress on critical Earth systems like oceans, freshwater, and biodiversity. These in turn will almost certainly have significant effects, both direct and indirect, across social, economic, political, and security realms during the next 20 years.”
Presuming they mean “changes in climate” due to increasing GHG emissions, then given all the evidence compiled on this site, and further given my own work, my thoroughly considered view is that they ought to be renamed the National Incompetence Council. One suspects that most here would agree.
“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? ”
Easy: add more workers……
Rumor of a Gaia bomb in the works . . . very hush-hush, of course.
After it’s set off, no one will ever worry about climate change again.
FBI and CIA to fight climate change, NASA tasked with Muslim outreach. Maybe Nero could make sense of it.
This is as crazy as the old Mad Magazine Spy versus Spy.
Or is he using climate to hide what he is doing on another front. Remember he has ordered that FBI hold no records of IS suspects.
Taken together, Deese said, “this is a very significant step and one that I think is a culmination of an elevation of the intersection between national security and climate change.”
___________________________________
By the way – how many troops has the vatican.
Obama’s conflation of Climate Change directives into a National Security threat is a contorted master plan shove them into the Department of Homeland Security, like a forgotten rectal thermometer.
It is hoped that once they elongate and become entwined within the blubbery entrails of that organization, a future sitting president would require eight years and considerable strain to purge them.
..How much more proof do you need to see that the liberal left simply does not live in the real world ? Trump is America’s last hope !
The reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which Mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is really zero. The relevant government agencies should be conserving their applicable resources until the time when science finds a way that Mankind can some how intimidate the sun and the oceans to provide the optimum climate. They have yet to define the ideal climate let alone come up with a means for achieving it. So far the current interglacial period has been cooler than the previous one with lower sea levels and less ice cap melting yet CO2 levels are higher than they were during the Eemian. The current interglacial period will not go on forever and no one knows how to avoid the next ice age. I doubt that bankrupting the government will help the situation any.
There was a documentary on free to air TV here in Australia about his 8 years in the top job. He was portrayed as the greatest PotUS evah! That does not seem to be reflected by many American posties here at WUWT, quite the opposite in fact.
bread and circus without all the bread! hey hey it’s the world tour of the cirque bien pensant!
the globalist ringmasters arranged a nobel prize as part of the promotion.
does anybody remember The Monkees?
they were 4 unknown young men with long hair who were hired to pretend they were musicians in a band.
obama was the first truly global presidential monkee.
you think they can’t tax the sun? just you wait!
wanna see me pull a habit out of a rat?
“day dream believer…”
Since climate models don’t work what is wrong with asking the CIA to find out what is happening by spying on Gaia?
you’ll be pleased to hear then that the CIA – which thinks this is a real threat to US security – has been working on this for quite some time: shouldn’t have to put any additional effort in to achieve this…
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/center-on-climate-change-and-national-security.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/science/earth/climate-change-report-outlines-perils-for-us-military.html?_r=0
“Climate change is accelerating, and it will place unparalleled strains on American military and intelligence agencies in coming years by causing ever more disruptive events around the globe, the nation’s top scientific research group said… The group, the National Research Council, says in a study commissioned by the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies…”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/cia-director-cites-impact-climate-change-deeper-cause-global
“CIA director cites impact of climate change as deeper cause of global instability”
OMG, the CIA are now doing media releases of their most important work.
UK’s MI6 have a website…
https://www.sis.gov.uk/
The CIA, as known now, was called summat else in 1948, do you know that Griff? Caused a bit of a “problem”.
A new epoch should be declared, the Elithiocene.
Better: the Obscene….
Obamassic. Ha ha
Only 4 months to go and Big O will be gone.
Well, why not issue such an order when you haven’t learned the lesson(s) of history. Congress tried such a move back in 2015. “The Senate Appropriations Committee requested the report in conjunction with the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015, asking that the undersecretary of defense for policy provide a report that identifies the most serious and likely climate-related security risks for each combatant command and the ways those commands integrate risk mitigation into their planning processes.”
Here’s a link to the press release announcing release of this report to Congress, from which the above quote was extracted:
http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710
and here’s a link to DoD’s full report titled “NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE-RELATED
RISKS AND A CHANGING CLIMATE”:
http://archive.defense.gov/pubs/150724-congressional-report-on-national-implications-of-climate-change.pdf?source=govdelivery
Somewhat surprisingly, DoD didn’t go along with game fully, only in name. Kudos to them for saving US taxpayers $millions, if not hundreds of $million, by not creating additional useless paper in their response.
The full report from DoD is all of 14 (!) pages long, and on the very first page (Page 1) states “The estimated cost of this report or study for the Department of Defense is approximately $22,000 for the 2015 Fiscal Year. This includes $0 in expenses and $22,000 in DoD labor.” And how does DoD discuss the “in-depth study” they performed to determine if climate change (get that . . . not even referencing man-caused global climate change) is something amenable to human intervention? . . . they simply state: “DoD recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to U.S. interests globally.” So, for 14 pages, $22,000 and statements like this, the subject document did little more than allow a box to be checked in some controlling bureaucracy’s list of things to do.
The 20 federal offices that Obama tasked with writing “implementation plans for combatting climate change” could do worse that simply stating “If the climate gets warmer over the next 20 years (say by +0.5 deg-C), we will adapt our dress attire, operational infrastructure and procedures, and budgets as required by rational threat assessments. If the climate gets significantly colder over the next 20 years (say by -0.5 deg-C) we will adapt our dress attire, operational infrastructure and procedures, and yearly budget requests as required by rational threat assessments.”
Alternatively, these 20 offices could jointly develop some backbone by simply responding, “Based on the best scientific data available, we have no f***ing idea how to COMBAT climate change.”
If you issue a stupid order, don’t be surprised if you get a stupid response.