This is encouraging news:
The Trump administration will reverse course from previous Obama administration policy, eliminating climate change from a list of national security threats. The National Security Strategy to be released on Monday will emphasize the importance of balancing energy security with economic development and environmental protection, according to a source who has seen the document and shared excerpts of a late draft.
“Climate policies will continue to shape the global energy system,” a draft of the National Security Strategy slated to be released on Monday said. “U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth, energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests. Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
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President Obama made climate change, and the burdensome regulations that accompany its focus, a primary focus of his administration, including in his National Security Strategy released in 2015. “[W]e are working toward an ambitious new global climate change agreement to shape standards for prevention, preparedness, and response over the next decade,” that report said.
“In some ways, [climate change] is akin to the problem of terrorism and ISIL,” Obama said at climate talks in Paris in 2015. During a weekly address, Obama said “Today, there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.”
In September 2016, President Obama released a memorandum requiring federal agencies to consider the effects of climate change in the development of national security-related doctrine, policies, and plans. All of this alarmed critics concerned with more pressing security risks.
Buh-bye!
Read more at The Federalist
UPDATE: This is what the National Security Strategy said in 2010, when “climate change” first appeared in it. It was mentioned 28 times in the document.
Source: http://nssarchive.us/NSSR/2010.pdf
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Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid.
Sheep, lemmings, and Leftists are easily manipulated.
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Making America Sane Again. I love it.
Tax cuts and Climate Change cuts are great early Christmas presents.
This is certainly the beginning of the end to one of the biggest and most expensive government sc@ms in human history.
By early 2020, Climate Change hacks will have a very difficult time explaining why: global temps have fallen by over 1C since early 2016, there is a 3+ standard deviation of disparity between CAGW’s global temp projections vs. reality, Sea Level Rise stuck at 7”/century for past 220 years, a string of brutal winters, growing Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland Ice Extents/Ice Mass, etc.
With this policy change, I expect there will be a growing number of whistle blowers exposing Climate Change data fiddling and corruption.
Dont hold your breath waiting for an apology from these leftists. One thing we can count on is any leftist ever admitting they made a mistake, they were wrong or they were sorry. There’s simply no humility or reasoning with buffoons or baboons.
Gary-san:
You’re correct. Leftists won’t admit they were wrong. They’ll just say their timing was off…
One scenario will be Leftists trying a redux of manmade global cooling like they did in the 70’s, or they’ll say solar cooling is only temporary, giving us more time to “fix” CO2 levels to avoid Warmageddon 200 years in the future…
You’ll be amazed how many people will believe their next iteration of some absurd manmade catastrophe scam…
Does that mean we will not be sprayed like bugs from above?
Man-made so-called “global warming” or “climate change” is a hoax; and nothing more than a $34 trillion wealth transfer scheme.
In another time, its proponents would have been members of the “Flat Earth Society” and claimed a consensus with respect to it as well.
See “A $34 Trillion Swindle: The Shame Of Global Warming,”
https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/a-34-trillion-swindle-the-shame-of-global-warming/ (see also the comments beneath the article)
Good to see adults in the WH. Good move.
Been saying this for many years now that God-less scientists have made the environment their god and spread this notion of climate change to country governments and the weak minded world.
I love it!
Now if we could just scrap the 75,000+ pages of tax code…
The military is apolitical, and they determined “Climate Change” is a threat to our national security, then here comes Trump risking our national security by introducing politics into it
They did not independently make that determination. They were directed, in effect, to do so.
If you think the military is “apolitical,” I have some ocean-front property to sell you in Kansas. There’s nothing more political than the Pentagon.
The military chooses the Secretary of Defense? The Joint Chiefs of Staff? etc.?
An excerpt from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
The leadership of the US military is NOT apolitical.
PS I seem to remember reading somewhere that the President is the military’s “Commander in Chief”.
(Now where did that … hmmm …. maybe the US Constitution?)
If the U.S. military thought CAGW was a national security threat, they would tell that to Trump. I assure you.
Can you imagine “Mad Dog” Mattis holding his tongue if he knew of a security threat to the U.S. that was being ignored? I can’t.
I imagine a lot of U.S. marines could go by the nickname “Mad Dog” but it’s got to say something when that nickname is owned by the Marine Defense Secretary. I love this guy! 🙂
Oh, where, where to start, jcfractal?
“The military is apolitical …” And its leaders are not political appointees? Could’a fooled me.
“… they determined “Climate Change” is a threat to our national security …” And Obama’s directives to them had nothing to do with it? Could’a fooled me.
“… Trump risking our national security by introducing politics into it [sic]” And politics does not permeate everything we do? Could’a fooled me.
Are you that ignorant, jcfractal? Or just a political hack?
Woo hoo! But, what took so long?
Hot Damn! I Just Love that Donald J Trump! He LOVES America and Real Americans who want Their Country to be GREAT Love Him!
What a perfect con. End of days. Oil and coal mining capitalists the main target. We’ll all die if we don’t shut them down. The rain forest and the ozone hole just never had as much sizzle. Hell, even the Pope bought into this one, big time. How can the globalist socialist movement progress without the climate change scare? How can the environment activists continue to thrive without the oil sands acting like a lightning rod for funding. It’s a real pickle. The best part is that all the funds they have expended to date have been spent in failure. The worst part is the waste.
YAY! Common sense returns to the White House. It’s a happy day indeed.
EXCELLENT! About time the adults took back over the nation and made smart choices.
Now Al Gore will have more time to molest masseuses!
TRUMP was right….again.
All this winning is tiring me out.
#MAGA
America ….. WINNING!
Johnny Cash sang “One Piece at a Time”, Trump is dismantling the Horrific Obama Legacy “One Piece at a Time”
TheLibertyDaily is the new drudge. Matt sold out for $$$$. Sinks. Thedrudgereport.com
If the solar panel tax credit goes away the panel’s price will be cut to an affordable level.
Huh?
Government subsidies ALWAYS increase consumer prices. A lot of people would not buy homes if the mortgage tax deduction didn’t make them affordable. Similarly, if people no longer get tax credits that help cut their out-of-pocket cost for solar panels, they will stop buying solar panels at the no-longer-subsidized higher prices, and will wait until the price drops to free-market levels without subsidies.
Sure, but what’s the point of accepting performance limitations and associated risks?
Well, since “global warming” is not an actual national security threat, it kind of makes sense. I mean, there’s not really a more simple way to put it.
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye.
I agree with President Trump that Climate Change is a Hoax! The Left have Climate Change “Scientists” who have been caught manipulating the data to try to prove Climate Change. They used to call it ” Global Warming before the Climate just kept cooling! Darn It! So they re-named it Climate Change, so they could be right if it went up or down! Real Climate Change can really only be measured in Decades and mostly Centuries. The problem is we didn’t have the technology to truly measure it going very far back. The Left , like Gore, has gotten rich off this BS, at the expense of the tax payers money! They even call people “Climate Deniers” as if the Left has a monopoly on determining what the Truth is! I don’t know about you, but the weather has been pretty much the same in my almost 70 years. It gets hot and it gets cold, year to year.
What a Crock!!! Good for you, President Trump!!!
Climate fraud is finally being exposed. Obamas green carpet baggers have saddled taxpayers with a tax burden that will create starvation for generations to come as revenues need to be diverted to pay for these windmill etc scams. Good riddance to Obama and God bless Trump.
So refreshing to have a President that is correct on US priorities and policies. Kudos to the excellent economy he’s brought us with getting rid of needless, hurtful regulations, renegotiating treaties and trade deals and for pulling America out of the morass that Bush and Obama caused our great nation. MAGA
Finally; some common sense instead anti American political correctness.
Upon Obama’s orders, every Department of Defense Operations Plan had to have an annex that specifically dealt with Climate Change. Waste of paper and electrons.