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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Discussions on climate change have been taking place for longer than the United States has existed. The title of the article in the following link is “An Attempt to Account for the Change of Climate, Which Has Been Observed in the Middle Colonies in North-America”:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1005036?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
click the “download pdf” link.
People who lived long before us have observed “changes in climate” which is evidenced by this article. The people the 1700’s did not have fossil fuel powered cars, planes or ships. They did not have coal powered railroads. Yet they still noticed changes in climate. Dr. Williamson postulated that climate change was man-made in his day in the 1700’s. If changes in climate was noticed before the United States was born then it may be that any climate change that appears to be occurring today might not be manmade. Today we have the tendency, like those who lived before us, to think that mankind is changing the climate.
Dr. Williamson who wrote this was a signer of the United States Constitution from North Carolina. He was a good guy. He was therefore a Founding Father of the United States and one who studied and thought about climate change.
good, people need to learn climate change isn’t humans, its nature. Look back at history of how many times with and BEFORE humans this climate has changed and get over your selves.
Remember when climate change was called “weather?” The greatest threats to the national security of the U.S. include: the deep state, radical, alt-Left, anti-American, socialist, Progressive Democrat, political operatives attempting to nullify the 2016 presidential election with the fraudulent Russian collusion witch hunt; mishandling classified information on “private” servers; flying billions to Iran–the globe’s leading state sponsor of radical Muslim terrorism; individual activist judges blocking common sense policies; globalist open borders/no borders stupidity; and transferring one-fifth of the U.S.’s uranium reserves to Russia and Putin. Climate change doesn’t even make the list of the top ten threats to national security.
If anyone thinks climate change is a real threat , then they need to ask them selves this question , so what’s Gods plan in all this ? If you do not know the answer , how can you anything intelligent? Really that’s what’s wrong with the silly notion . Based on nonsense . No reality . The climate has been changing since the beginning by yes the designer God .
The best person got elected. No doubt about that.
Climate Nazis! Be gone!
Harold, are you saying our atmosphere is transparent to all LW radiation?
By definition light blocking insulation would reduce the amount of light hitting the bottom of the bathtub, Harold. [Why did Anonymous come up in this answer to Harold?]
What does that have to do with LW radiation in our atmosphere?
The sun provides all of the energy inputs to our climate system, Harold. [From where do we get that “Anonymous” tag on your comment? Are you using different accounts?]
Radiatively active gasses, massively water vapor, allow for a surface temperature greater than that which would otherwise ensue from sunlight alone. All of the energy needed is provided by our sun.
I am getting tired of pointing out physical facts to you. Having said that, I do not believe the minor amounts of CO2 produced by man materially effects our climate. Certainly not to an extent such that it can be measured.
Mods, where have all of Harold’s comments gone?
(Found one comment in the trash bin, but refused my effort to restore it, which suggest it was infected) MOD
“Dave Fair December 17, 2017 at 6:53 pm
Mods, where have all of Harold’s comments gone?”
That is what I am wondering. All he was doing was talking about how there is nothing factual about the greenhouse gas effect. I was following your and his conversation. I came over here today and couldn’t find his posts. They all were made to vanish.
See the moderators comments upthread.
Harold H. is just another fake commenter. He has made hundreds of comments here using fake names, fake email addresses, and fake IP addresses. He’s a shape-shifter, one of the people who is so impressed with his own world-view, he has to make up new identities to get the word out.
Our commenting policy on this behavior is very clear:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/policy/
Thank you for the explanation, Anthony.
Those like Harold believe the ends justify the means.
U R clueless
What is a “fake IP address?” Never heard of such a thing.
Dave Fair says December 17, 2017 at 6:53pm
Mods, where have all of Harold’s comments gone?
(Found one comment in the trash bin, but refused my effort to restore it, which suggest it was infected) MOD
It sounds like you’re simply making up a fake claim. What would a comment in text be infected with?
Is there a link? What site is it to? If there’s no link, then what makes you say a text comment is infected?
I think you’re just making that up because you have something against what Harold Holden said.
(I never read any of his comments, responded to a complaint that his comments vanished then looked for them finding just one, which I tried to restore, it refused to move now it is gone for a good reason) MOD
It sounds to me like Harold didn’t believe in the sky being a magic heater but somebody here, does.
Do the owners of this site claim the science of green house gas warming is real? I didn’t know that. I thought pretty much everyone on the skeptical side knows the atmosphere can’t be warming the earth, if it’s cooling it.
This is very a very interesting discovery to me. What Harold or whoever he is, was saying, seemed to make sense to me.
Why is simply being someone not allowed to make simple forthright statements on the natural physical effects of the cold atmosphere, cooling the Earth?
Something’s fishy here.
And everybody knows when you find fishy behavior in climate science,
it’s going to be discovered to be on the part of the people claiming all that fraudulent pseudo-science is real.
(Harold was banned for using multiple accounts here) MOD
Mr. Watts is acting like ”shadowy operators” are stalking him, sending ”infected blog posts.”
This is the classical behavior of a green house gas believer.
Therefore Mr Watts believes in green house gas warming.
I can tell that without even asking him. His censorship of completely sensible speech while referring to ”shape shifters” is all we need to see, it’s straight out of political speech disguised as a scientific opinion.
Well that sort of explains why the Skeptical movement never takes off, one of the main so-called ‘Skeptics’ is censoring peoples’ discussion of weather,
because it doesn’t fit Mr Watts’ crackpot outlook
regarding the behavior of the atmosphere.
Which I agree is not a heater as Mr Holden said. The atmosphere is a cold nitrogen bath, actually a cold nitrogen and oxygen bath, I agree with that as well.
As a matter of fact everything Mr Holden said made sense.
”Shape-shifting” – that sounds directly out of the play book of the science destroying Hillary Clinton.
(Drop this, Harold was banned for a good reason, get back on topic!) MOD
I read one of Harold posts.. It was incoherent nonsense. !!
Almost like written by a bot of some sort.
Not much different from your post, Donald. !
Same person, again ??
Yep same guy, he’s been pushing this junk for years under dozens if not hundreds of fake personas. That’s why he gets the title of “shapeshifter” I know who he is, located in Marysville, CA.
Anthony, please out the poseur.
Donald = Harold? Same nonsense, Andy.
What claims are you saying he has made for years that are junk? From what I understood, it is green house gas theory that is actually junk. Does he support that then?
I thought he was pointing out that there is no way that the atmosphere can warm the planet if it is colder than the planet.
I also saw him say when more insulation is put between a fire and something it is warming, less energy from the fire must be what thermometers show reaching them. This seems true, obviously.
That is why I said that you must believe in green house gas theory. You are telling everyone now what he said was wrong. What part of what he said is wrong?
It seems like if what he said was wrong, it would be easy for you to explain. But you just took it down.
How can something be ‘junk’ if it’s just talking about whether something makes something else, colder or warmer?
Do you believe in green house gas theory Mr Watts? Are you a scientist? If you do or do not believe in it, can you tell me why?
Because what you did seems suspiciously like other people who argue climate. If someone does not believe the way they do, they simply do not allow them to talk about it.
This is always one of the signs that one side is dishonest, when they won’t debate the other side, and won’t let anyone discuss why.
Thank you for answering my questions. I’m sorry for saying you believe in green house gas warming if you don’t. But I can not see any other answer to why you would be so angry to have someone claim it doesn’t make sense.
”Anthony Watts December 18, 2017 at 11:09 pm
Yep same guy, he’s been pushing this junk for years under dozens if not hundreds of fake personas. That’s why he gets the title of “shapeshifter” I know who he is, located in Marysville, CA.”
Anthony, you have the tolerance of a saint. I’d just out the Marysville Troll and let his neighbors chastise him.