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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Climate change is a lefty loony religion scam. One world government my butt.
Climate Change is scientific fact. The vast majority of the world’s scientists agree with me.
The Lew-paper said so!
Science isn’t about agreement. It’s about facts. At one time the worlds great intellectuals thought the world was flat. They were as wrong as you are now. Tell us all what the weather will be next week? Pick a place on the planet and predict the temperature next week? To within one degree? You can’t because the weather is dynamic and has always changed. The earth will change. So what? We will change with it. Do you even realize how dumb it sounds to blame fossil fuels for killing people? Do you even realize that in order for us to have fossil fuels today billions of life forms had to die for billions of years? So that means. That means nature has been in the killing business since day one. We are all going to die because of something. Fossil fuels have powered the greatest advancements the world has ever seen and it is only now, at this time, that any species has ever had the power to save itself. Fossil fuels are the energy that drives the worlds economies and lifts people out of poverty. You should be extolling it’s virtues! We alhave advanced to a point where fussion energy production is on our door step. We have used fossil fuels to get us to where we are. Fossil fuels and the products and energy they produce have been a boom to mankind and will be forever held as his greatest achievement.
Obama is a panty waisted, communist perv. A true modern day democrat.
Good news. One more lousy obama policy into the circular file. First he gets us out ot the ridiculous paris climate treaty and now he’s removing gw/cc as a threat. I can sure hear the environmental wackos throwing a fit.
2017 has been a very dangerous year for the world. The Alt-Right and Nazi’s are invigorated and we’re seen a dramatic rise in Hate, especially in the United States. Hate against Immigrants. Hate against people of Color. Hate against the LGBTQIA community. Hate against Science. Hate against Diversity. Hate against Facts.
The United States is currently led by someone who denies science and who actually pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. It didn’t take long but the destructive results of that criminal action showed themselves in the form of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. The fires are still raging in California. The ice caps continue to melt. The Earth continues to warm.
How much more time does the Earth have left?
Don’t feed the troll.
How about let’s not hurt the Earth?
If you don’t want to hurt the Earth then why do you digging your hole deeper?
Ms Spenzak, you do seem to be trying to use as many cliches in one comment as possible. Are you a vegan, too?
I bet she has a pink knitted cat ear beanie.
That, Getbendt, is a vaghat. The word also describes its wearers and all others of the same political stripe.
The vaghat is a symbol of how feminism has morphed into a hard left philosophy. Wearing it is a demonstration of the wearer’s absurd world view.
And a “Coexist” bumper sticker on her car … er … bike.
Coexist: “You have to coexist with me. I don’t have to coexist with you.”
PS I noticed in her litany of the objects of “Hate”, she left out Christians.
Perhaps because hating Christians and Christian ideals is A-OK with her?
“we’re seen a dramatic rise in Hate”
Certainly you seem to. !!! … everything. !!!
Hate is what limits her ability to be rational. It’s an emotion of desperation.
Maybe one, or two billion years. And so ends the tranny-toilet legacy.
Your so full of s–t the only one who created hatred and division was that scrum bag Obama. Stop watching CNN maybe then you’ll wake up idiot.
Your comments are hilarious. You should take that show on the road. When you sit at dinner with your family I bet they never bring up deep conversations for fear that Lara will blow a gasket and spew her nonsense all over the room. I’m sorry but someone must inform you of how moronic you sound. You are void of inteligence, lack any sense of reality and we are all a little bit less intelligent for having read your inane and uninformed comment. You are beyond stupid, you are arriving at brain dead. The only excuse you have is that maybe your ignorance can relieve your lack of inteligence. Or, like a cold ham you don’t posses the ability to rationally think. However, it is entertaining. People like you deliver onto us the ability to laugh and thank our god we are not as vacant as you.
The sooner you leave the Earth, the more time the rest of us will have.
Mmm seems it is not only Obama who thinks climate change is an issue…
SEC. 335. REPORT ON EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) Findings.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Secretary of Defense James Mattis has stated: “It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.”.
(2) Secretary of Defense James Mattis has stated: “I agree that the effects of a changing climate — such as increased maritime access to the Arctic, rising sea levels, desertification, among others — impact our security situation.”.
(3) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford has stated: “It’s a question, once again, of being forward deployed, forward engaged, and be in a position to respond to the kinds of natural disasters that I think we see as a second or third order effect of climate change.”.
(4) Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has stated: “Over the next 20 years and more, certain pressures-population, energy, climate, economic, environmental-could combine with rapid cultural, social, and technological change to produce new sources of deprivation, rage, and instability.”.
(5) Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Gordon Sullivan has stated: “Climate change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world.”.
(6) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has stated: “Many countries will encounter climate-induced disruptions—such as weather-related disasters, drought, famine, or damage to infrastructure—that stress their capacity to respond, cope with, or adapt. Climate-related impacts will also contribute to increased migration, which can be particularly disruptive if, for example, demand for food and shelter outstrips the resources available to assist those in need.”.
(7) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated: “DOD links changes in precipitation patterns with potential climate change impacts such as changes in the number of consecutive days of high or low precipitation as well as increases in the extent and duration of droughts, with an associated increase in the risk of wildfire… this may result in mission vulnerabilities such as reduced live-fire training due to drought and increased wildfire risk.”.
(8) A three-foot rise in sea levels will threaten the operations of more than 128 United States military sites, and it is possible that many of these at-risk bases could be submerged in the coming years.
(9) As global temperatures rise, droughts and famines can lead to more failed states, which are breeding grounds of extremist and terrorist organizations.
(10) In the Marshall Islands, an Air Force radar installation built on an atoll at a cost of $1,000,000,000 is projected to be underwater within two decades.
(11) In the western United States, drought has amplified the threat of wildfires, and floods have damaged roads, runways, and buildings on military bases.
(12) In the Arctic, the combination of melting sea ice, thawing permafrost, and sea-level rise is eroding shorelines, which is damaging radar and communication installations, runways, seawalls, and training areas.
(13) In the Yukon Training Area, units conducting artillery training accidentally started a wildfire despite observing the necessary practices during red flag warning conditions.
(b) Sense Of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) climate change is a direct threat to the national security of the United States and is impacting stability in areas of the world both where the United States Armed Forces are operating today, and where strategic implications for future conflict exist;
(2) there are complexities in quantifying the cost of climate change on mission resiliency, but the Department of Defense must ensure that it is prepared to conduct operations both today and in the future and that it is prepared to address the effects of a changing climate on threat assessments, resources, and readiness; and
(3) military installations must be able to effectively prepare to mitigate climate damage in their master planning and infrastructure planning and design, so that they might best consider the weather and natural resources most pertinent to them.
(c) Report.—
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on vulnerabilities to military installations and combatant commander requirements resulting from climate change over the next 20 years.
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report on vulnerabilities to military installations and combatant commander requirements required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) A list of the ten most vulnerable military installations within each service based on the effects of rising sea tides, increased flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires, thawing permafrost, and any other categories the Secretary determines necessary.
(B) An overview of mitigations that may be necessary to ensure the continued operational viability and to increase the resiliency of the identified vulnerable military installations and the cost of such mitigations.
(C) A discussion of the climate-change related effects on the Department, including the increase in the frequency of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions and the theater campaign plans, contingency plans, and global posture of the combatant commanders.
(D) An overview of mitigations that may be necessary to ensure mission resiliency and the cost of such mitigations.
You mean Obama’s Department of Defense’s report.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/breaking-trump-to-remove-climate-change-as-a-national-security-threat/comment-page-1/#comment-2694538
Yeah…so….? Here’s a rebuttal that you can’t deny:
Spring, summer, fall and winter.
The weather changes. Duh!
Getbent, I assume you were replying to Simon and not me?
Points 1-7 are politically based blather.
8. 3 ft at 1.5mm/year = about 600 years
9. No rise in global temperatures apart from a highly beneficial warming out of the LIA No warming in satellite era except ocean events and cycles.
10. see number 8 Love their new airport. 😉
11, Wildfire happens, is not increasing, MUCH less than around the 1930s
12. Arctic, Natural cycle, extent steady for 10 years or so, erosion due to local disturbances. Erosion happens everywhere, always has, always will. No CC effect
13. Then they should be more careful. Most wildfires are human in source, and “green” anti-control measures have exacerbated the burns in recent years.
Then more Obama based political clap-trap.
It is this sort of arrant anti-science nonsense that MUST be removed from society, along with the CO2 hatred that has polluted so many minds.
CO2 is one of the fundamental building blocks of all life on Earth, and it has been at dangerously low levels for a long time.
More is needed. 700+ ppm would be a good level to aim at initially.
We will need to provide a replacement CO2 source once fossil fuels are exhausted, Andy.
How about we stop using fossil fuels to create massive solar and wind and batteries renewable energy sources that use up energy faster than using them directly as energy? Thereby reducing the fossil fuels used now for the future reduction of CO2 and keeping them in our reserves. Where those renewables will require being replaced by the time they pay for their own cost of fossil fuels at todays prices.
My point was that increased CO2 levels have been good for all living things on this planet.
Yes Dave.
I think I have mentioned that I see a time in a few hundred years, when nuclear energy of some sort is used to break down carbonate type rocks to maintain an adequate level of atmospheric CO2
Over in Britain, policies aimed at avoiding a fictitious, imaginary risk of adverse climate change, have created a much more solid, real risk of gas supply for heating running out this winter.
Seven things have happened causing UK gas prices to climb sharply and for winter supply to sufficiency to be seriously in doubt:
1. Explosion 💥 at the Baumgarten gas facility in Austria where Russian gas enters western Europe.
2. Forties pipeline, largest source of North Sea gas, damaged reducing gas flow for weeks or months
3. Morcambe field gas output halved due to technical problems
4. Gas pipeline between Holland and Britain reduced in flow due to problems with a compressor
5. The Rough subsea gas storage facility off Yorkshire was shut down in the summer due to bureaucratic apathy and ignorance.
6. Norway’s Troll platform reduced gas output significantly due to a power outage
7. Closure of coal power plants in the UK due to green-religious intolerance of sources of energy that are black.
An 8th could be the more than usual uselessness if solar and wind in the winter especially when it is cold.
All these are combining to threaten winter heating for millions of British residents, whose well-being is sacrificed on an alter of CAGW virtue-signalling.
So the UK has become “No country for old men”. One might well pose the question asked by hitman Anton Chigur:
“If the rule you followed brought you to this, what use was the rule?”
https://youtu.be/DxZwwP1LgpM
Where are they putting all of the ash from burning wood pellets and coal at Drax? It must be piling up somewhere.
Next they’ll be stopping the tsunami drills in Oklahoma.
Thank you fellow citizens for voting for our president. We now have common sense leadership. Call him what you will but President Trump is getting it right and getting it done. All of us with inteligence know that the climate has always changed. We also know that we can’t predict weather and temperature a week from now let alone years, decades and centuries from now. The earth is a dynamic system and we have evolved with along side of it. I do not fear for our future one bit. Fossil fuels have only been in use for about a hundred years. With the worlds econonomies and technologies improving it will only be in use another hundred years. Maybe less. We will not destroy a four billion year old planet in 200 years of fossil fuel use. I believe that technology along with America leading an economic boom we can lift other nations out of poverty and into a more civilized status. Global warming, climate change and all this other hippie nonsense has killed nobody. But hunger, desease, war and poverty has destroyed billions of lives. By simply leading the world into the 22nd century and developing advanced energy systems we will save billions of lives. By lifting poor nations up we will lower population growth, solve desease and improve living conditions. Energy is the solution, it is not a threat. Throughout history advances in energy and technology has benefited man. Fossil fuels have powered the engine that advanced the world by connecting us all and giving us the energy and products that have created our world. If you seriously look at the worlds problems you will see where the strife and danger are. It is the less advanced, oppressed regions that are creating the risks. It is not the advanced nations that cause the issues. The west is developing energy systems that in a few decades will revolutionize the energy output of the world and bring a higher standard of living and lower energy costs to the third world. In all reality, what is the real threat? If temperatures go up by one degree so what? It means the temperate zones will increase and we will have more productive regions? Ok. If the ice caps melt a little so what? More fresh water in the system would be great. More rain, more crops and less hunger. If sea levels rise so what? People will move inland. Every where I look people tend to migrate to warmer climates. Warmer climates support more life than colder climates. Humans will adapt. Those who don’t or can’t are not meant to survive. The earth has developed a dynamic system and nature has evolved us to adapt to it. We will be fine. Thank you president Trump for putting us back on a path of success.
Obama is such a Dolt! It’s so refreshing that we have a President in Trump who is ridding us of all Obama’s nonsensical regulations that were a gift to his Leftist friends who all seek to destroy our nation. MAGA!
Fossils don’t burn. There is no such thing as fossil fuels. Oil and natural gas come from the carbon outer core of the Earth under intense heat and pressure. They don’t come from dead dinosaurs.
Well are presedent has made a great desision.globle warming is B.S. that’s why they changed it to (climate change)the first lie didn’t work so they changed the name. Dems all lie, all day, every day it’s what they do more power and wealth. People that believe dems are uninformed or just stupid wake up American.
I can only hope and pray that R22 refrigerant is back on the market before long. The nation has been DuPonted by this ozone fear mongering corporate greed nonsense.
Maggie Thatcher’s musings as to how to be rid of troubling striking coal miners.
A comment by a science geek referencing the atmosphere of the planet Venus.
It can hardly be believed such an off the cuff, scattershot association has fueled a $$$trillion flight of fraudulent fancy.
If the facts don’t fit then lie.
The evil men do in the grab for money and power…
I’ll bet bill nye the unscientific guy choked on his granola when he read that this morning. The little prick in n. korea is a national security threat. Collectivism is a national security threat. Islamism is a national security threat. Abortion is a national security threat.
No matter your opinion on abortion, deepkimchi, it is not a national security threat.
This whole global warming nonsense was the catalyst for the one world order or the new world government if you prefer,
Had Hillary Clinton been elected her handlers with the United Nations George Soros the elite the Illuminati would have gained enough control to eliminate a large portion of the population this was a eugenist wet dream to stifle innovation energy affordability of energy to control water and any other source of energy
FRAUDULENT CO2 SCAM
There has been NO global warming World Wide in 17 years.
It is GLOBAL COOLING.
EXCELLENT VIDEOS:
Climate EXPERT:
Doctor Don Easterbrook
Professor of Emeritus of Geology Western WA University
Dr. Don Easterbrook Exposes the Climate Change Hoax
MUST SEE EXCELLENT VIDEOS:
Don Easterbrook the cause of Climate Change – YouTube
Global Warming; 31,487 Scientists say NO to Alarm
The Global Warming Petition project;
There is NO GLOBAL WARMING.
The sole reason for the Fraudulent CARBON TAXES is to be used to FUND the COMMUNIST JEW World Order ONE World Government.
The Global Warming Swindle
The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie.
Nobel Laureate Smashes the Global Warming Hoax
“… the COMMUNIST JEW World Order ONE World Government.”
Seriously, Snowy?
I have to agree, that single line will be focused upon by the AGW types above all else.
A large tent covers some dark areas, CO.
And the videos have nothing to do with that insanity, CO.
Dave Fair,
Amen!
Those who lust for power and control are “equal opportunity employers”.
Gunga Din, are you agreeing with Snowy’s “… the COMMUNIST JEW World Order ONE World Government.”?
No!
The “Amen” was to your simple but to the point, “Seriously, Snowy?”.
We all share in practicing human vices to one degree or another. Those who lust for power and control aren’t content to practice them in private. They will wear whatever sheep’s clothing the moment requires to achieve their goals.
Communism, the one world government dudes are such.
But the Jews!
“Seriously, Snowy?”
ANTISEMITIC NUTTER ALERT!
While I might agree with your opinion of the harm done by Obama and “new age” liberals, I find your suggested solution to be abhorrent.
I doubt the MODS actually read it yet.
For those wondering about that comment was about, that was a reply to a comment that the mods seem to have read after it was posted. It is gone now but my replies remain.
Kim
Obama’s agenda treated harnessed energy and free speech as the greatest evils and corresponding threats to the world.
President Trump has exposed B. Hussein on both of those lies; however, don’t expect the Nobel Committee, the United Nations, and the Democratic Party to do anything but quadruple down on them.
While not agreeing with you, LAS, pusscake is right up there with vaghat.
“Climate change” is the newest atheist religion replacing the seemingly now abandoned “Theory of evolution”. From the defective minds of liberalism.
James, you need to get out more.
Harold, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Do you deny the radiative properties of some gasses?
Well, Harold, I certainly wouldn’t use one to heat my humble abode.
But longwave radiation will have an impact on anything it touches.
In the late 1970’s I used an IR detector to identify heat loss from my house during a Spokane, WA winter. You could even detect IR from the evergreen trees.
Anyway, Harold, please describe an experiment that denies LW radiation is impacting our global surface environment.
Where to begin, Harold, where to begin?
Actually, I’m not going to begin; your example is nonsensical. It is trivially obvious that LW radiation can be blocked by physical barriers.
Please explain how LW radiation cannot have an effect on a body it touches.
The moderators removed all my posts. I have no idea why.
{because you are same “magic gas quoting phantom” whose has authored hundreds of posts under fake names, fake email addresses, and fake IP addresses in the past. Everything about you is FAKE, sooo…by our policy your posts go to the bit bucket. we’ve been on to you for quite some time -MOD}
Common sense and national security how refreshing!
It must be remembered that the pentagon is one of the more significant sources that is labeling Climate Change as a national security issue
There’s a new boss, John. You need to keep up with the times.
Before Obama, the Pentagon had no opinion.
This would seem a reasoned approach that acknowledges real complexities and multiple priorities.
On January 20, 2017, Trump removed Obama as a national security threat.