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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Gen 8:22
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Thank God.
I’m not sure that I agree with President Trump. I think melty Snowflakes and Millennial’s tears may actually be a national security problem.
I think “Millennials” get a bum rap sometimes. Millennials, like the generations that came before them, are probably made up of about half Liberal and half Conservative.
The Liberal Millennials deserve the ridicule they get, but keep in mind that they all don’t walk in lockstep.
I read this yesterday, just passing it along: “Obama Uninstall–85% Complete”
Good one, Rod! 🙂
Any truth to the rumor that cold and snow will now be the new normal for winter?
All because we no longer have a President that is an anti-American, Socialist idiot.
Another insane Obama Administration policy flushed down the toilet with other solid waste from the past administration. MAGA.
Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid and Schumer are the greatest threats to national security. They are followed closely by the top brass of the FBI and DOJ.
99% of the comments here make me sad for the future of America.
It must be frightening to face the fact that the world is much larger and more complex than your little town and it’s church.
“99% of the comments here make me sad for the future of America.”
You think we are the future? Good!! Maybe there is hope after all.
You are sad that your life has just gotten a little bit BETTER.
That’s sad.
Just think, you’re not going to have to sleep on a rubber sheet any more!
Aren’t you grateful to President Trump?
Good riddens. The only effect I see with the environment. Is government agencies creating more wasteful jobs. More regulations. It needs to go. The waste I see is trash being thrown by people on the roads. Another waste is recycling. I pick up trash off our roads over 8 miles and 50 bags are the recycling. Plastic water bottles, card board. I could go on and on.
Merry Christmas America!
I believe the fear mongering is all part of the “CLOWARD and PIVEN Strategy ( if not aware of this pls look it up ) promoted by enemies of the US to bankrupt the country – at $ 120 TRILLION Plus in unfunded liabilities we are already there. Be prepared for a major RE-SET coming soon and will no doubt all be blamed on Trump.
Obama was an ass. For all his bombastic and over the top behavior, Trump’s policies are actually sane in comparison. People are so superficial that they think Obama was a good president and Trump is a buffoon. They only look at the surface, and never beyond it.
Obama said white was a threat to America too. But who was it that weaponized the DOJ, IRS, EPA and FBI. Who was it, Mr I himself. We will soon learn the CIA is weaponized too. Wake the f up, America
Ignorant Democrats and Enviro-luddites worship at the alter of AGW, but ignore the reality of “the little ice age” and “the medieval warm period”. Both occurred within the past 1,000 years which is less than the blink of an eye in planet history and both took place without the presence or intervention of modern industrialized civilization. Nevertheless they represented major variation in climate without human causation in the near past. Since climate is dynamic and subject to variability over time, and we do live in an interglacial period and our paleo-climate records indicate stark changes in climate during past interglacial periods, the attempt to attribute changes in climate as consequences of human action is either foolish or a cynical ploy to gain power.
Does this mean the feds are going to stop poisoning the air, water supplies, and soil with the Harvard University geoengineering aerosol of heavy metals that started in the 1970’s?
Finally! Forward! Moving on with change I can believe in!
One contextual fraud down, 999,999 to go! MAGA!
Oh dear, How are we ever going to save the whales, and save the snails, ave the trees, save the seas, save the worms, and save the germs for the greater glory of the goddess Gaia. We can no longer advocate carbon taxing all those greed capitalists into bankruptcy under one world government at the UN. Oh dear, we are all doomed!
We saved the whales…
What replaced sperm whale oil?
And in New Zealand some years ago the Dept. of Conservation saved 800 native worms from a road expansion project north of Wellington at the cost of NZ$1000 each. Yes, you read that correctly. NZ$800,000 to save some worms, all dead now.
The CIA think its a national security threat. Of course you are going to tell me ‘Obama made then do it’. Right.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/cia-director-cites-impact-climate-change-deeper-cause-global
Griff, blinded by his own ideology, again.
What’s the Greatest Threat to U.S. National Security?
Last month, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate that Russia presented the greatest threat to United States national security. At around the same time, James Comey, the F.B.I. director, declared the Islamic State to be the biggest threat. President Obama has consistently said that nuclear terrorism is what keeps him up at night.
(note, he didn’t say “climate change” keeps him up at night”)
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/02/whats-the-greatest-threat-to-us-national-security
Have you apologised to Dr Crockford yet, you lying little toerag?
Trump haters have no idea how stupid they sound to an intelligent, informed, non brainwashed citizen. Every aspect of the country’s economy, freedom, constitutional rule and foreign affairs has improved immensely in the last year.
That simply is not true. Trump just removed Net Neutrality which means people, including schools and non-profits will lose access to the internet as corporations will pick and choose who can go online at what speed. Trump is cutting taxes for rich which means less investment in science, education and social services. There’s already been a dramatic increase in homelessness since January.
Ah, I see the Crazy Gang has arrived from Drudge link. We are all dead from the thermonuclear war with North Korea Trump caused so a bit of Net Neutrality, lower taxes and climate change don’t really matter much to the few of us left.
Google is your friend.
(I read that on the internet.)
Whah! Oh my, the doom and gloom is upon us. What ever will we do. Net neutrality will destroy the world! The greedy corporations will kill the internet. Lower taxes means my family gets a raise. I get to decide where my money goes. Wow l, what a bummer!
Get a clue Einstein. We all have investments and benefit from “corporations”. We all have internet access and nobody is losing it. If anything we’re giving it to the world. Trump is leading a revolution we have all wanted and will all benefit from!
That’s a load of garbage. The internet worked just fine before the government picked the big businesses over the little business by making it harder for them to compete. That is what all government regulations do. That is how Fascism works by making it easier for those they like that will comply and making it harder for those they don’t that can’t afford to comply to the standards they impose. That is how Mussolini and Hitler did it. Trump is removing and canceling those burdensome regulations to help the little guy’s compete with the big monopolies. The Federal Government should not be picking winners and losers. Which they have been doing for a century. Each state has control over what they regulate and federal regulations overrule them by imposing stricter regulations set by the unelected bureaucrats in those departments. They set these regulations to make themselves feel like they are doing something for their incomes to keep getting government funding increases. Without caring who it harms.
We do, however, need anti-trust actions against Facebook and Google at a minimum.
Funny how the homeless show up only when a non-democrap is in office.
Well said, Fred.
Agreed. 100% agree.
Trump HAS NOT disregarded climate change. He simply took ideology (Obama’s blind spot) out of the equation.
Trump IS the biggest threat to the world today. Trump’s denial of Climate Change and his war on science is going to magnify and worsen the effects of the Climate Change on the world. Just after Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords two major hurricanes struck the U.S. TRILLIONS of gallons of water was dumped on Texas alone. Puerto Rico is trying to recover from Hurricane Irma. Wildfires continue to rage across the western U.S. All this happened just this year alone. Things will continue to get worse for the Earth unless Trump is impeached and removed from office.
My, my, my Lara. You have apparently drunk the Koolaid. As I am hopeful enough to engage in the old heresy that blames ignorance, not malice, for apparent evil, I would ask you a few simple questions.
Who is Michael Mann, and why is he associated with a winter sports implement?
What is Thomas Karl accused of doing, and why?
Who is Maurice Strong, and how did his politics affect the IPCC? What is the IPCC, anyway?
Thank God we now have a President who deals in reality. I have no issues with expecting mankind to be good stewards of our environment but to say climate change is akin to Islamic terrorism is laughable! Or maybe on a par with a nuclear madman is pathetic! Obama just didn’t get it
I have a beach house since 1975 and cannot see from water marks on the boat docks that the sea level is rising. Where are measurements taken that show it is rising?
2015 Death Toll
Global Warming 0
ISIS 170,000
People have suffered and died throughout the world because of the effects of Climate Change. Fires are still raging in southern California, Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Irma. People were killed in Florida and Texas because of the hurricanes.
None of these are related to “climate change”
They have happened before, and will happen again.
Total fires are down, Hurricanes are down.
The attribution to CC is a load of nonsense.
From Lara’s site:
http://leftwingandbraveworld.blogspot.com/2017/09/climate-change-strikes-texas-and-florida.html
Note the caption under a picture of airboats in Houston(?).
“Do you still deny Climate Change?
If you voted for Trump this is what you got in return.”
OH PLEASE!
And the dinasaurs, oh my, we’re killed off because we used fossil fuels then also right? Hey geniuses on the left. 99% of the Earths previous species became extinct before man every took a step on earth. We evolved to be the dominent life form on the planet because we developed inteligence and energy production that took us from a hand to mouth existence to a Disney world existence. I prefer being on top of the food chain, not under it. All of you hippies are welcome to migrate out of America, the greatest force for good man has ever created, and migrate to the utopia where you can live without technology, without fossil fuels and without the developments the west has produced. Trump is simply correcting the false narrative that the weather is more harmful than having your head chopped off. That seams about right.
Amazing how quickly someone can forget the remarkable 12 year drought of major landfalling hurricanes when a year comes along with a few well placed storms. Especially during a positive AMO phase!
They think if they warn you, and scare you about climate change long enough and that only government can fix it, you will fall for the scam. The purpose of this hysteria is to grow government and raise your taxes…later you will inevitably find out they did not change the climate anyway like they promised, and they got your money.
Short attention span, “those who forget histrory”, stuff like that. Poor girl/guy.