We’re saved! U.S. Army sets 2050 net-zero emissions goal – ‘The time to address climate change is now’
Christine E. Wormuth Secretary of the Army: “The time to address climate change is now. … I challenge our Army to examine climate threats, prioritize resources, and take swift action.”
Politico: “The strategy also set milestones for electrifying its vehicle fleet. It would go all-electric for light-duty non-tactical vehicles by 2027 and across all non-tactical vehicles by 2035…The U.S. Army outlined a climate change strategy Tuesday that included halving greenhouse gas emissions compared with 2005 levels this decade, greening its vehicle fleet, running on carbon-free power and ultimately hitting net-zero emissions by 2050. The Army’s strategy comes after President Joe Biden’s December executive order exempted the military from the federal government’s 2050 net-zero commitments.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: “We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does. … Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act.”
By: Admin – Climate DepotFebruary 8, 2022 6:28 PM
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Politico: Army sets 2050 net-zero emissions goal
BY: ZACK COLMAN | 02/08/2022 01:02 PM EST
The U.S. Army outlined a climate change strategy Tuesday that included halving greenhouse gas emissions compared with 2005 levels this decade, greening its vehicle fleet, running on carbon-free power and ultimately hitting net-zero emissions by 2050.
The Army’s strategy comes after President Joe Biden’s December executive order exempted the military from the federal government’s 2050 net-zero commitments. That order left an enormous gap, as the military accounts for a bulk of the federal government’s planet-heating emissions. A 2019 Brown University study estimated the military has been responsible for up to 80 percent of federal government emissions since 2001.“
The Army must adapt across our entire enterprise and purposefully pursue greenhouse gas mitigation strategies to reduce climate risks,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth wrote in the strategy. “If we do not take action now, across our installations, acquisition and logistics, and training, our options to mitigate these risks will become more constrained with each passing year.”
The details: The Army said it wants to hit net-zero emissions across its more than 130 global installations by 2045. It would do that by installing a microgrid by 2035 and procuring entirely carbon-free power by 2030 at every installation. The Army also wants to curb emissions at all buildings 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2032.The strategy also set milestones for electrifying its vehicle fleet. It would go all-electric for light-duty non-tactical vehicles by 2027 and across all non-tactical vehicles by 2035. It will invest in 470 new electric vehicle charging stations this year to help jump start that transition, the Army said.
The Army said through 2020 it retired 18,000 non-tactical vehicles. Over the last three years, it boosted hybrid vehicles by 3,000 units. Those shifts cut Army non-tactical vehicle fleet costs more than $50 million and cut emissions per mile by 12 percent.
Full U.S. Army plan here: https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/about/2022_army_climate_strategy.pdf
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Bonus Chapter #2 from The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change:
Excerpt: The climate activists have it backward. A 2011 study published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies titled “The Climate Wars Myth” found, “Since the dawn of civilization, warmer eras have meant fewer wars.” As author Bruno Tetrais explained, “History shows that ‘warm’ periods are more peaceful than ‘cold’ ones…
John Horgan, the director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, explained, “In spite of the recent surge in violence in the Middle East, war-related casualties have fallen over the last half-century, as temperatures have risen…
A 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that cold eras were dark times in Eastern Europe. “Some of Eastern Europe’s greatest wars and plagues over the last millennium coincided with cold periods,” explained a summary of the study in Science News.
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So, the only foes left are the Laws of Physics? There are straw men and now there are straw enemies.
Well, there’s always Eastasia…
NET ZERO military is one thing, they’ll need Phased Energy Weapons to remove the combustion of bullets though, but I want to see the NET ZERO war. Bobombs release much heat and create many fires. Then what happens when the battery pack on the Electric Tank gets hit? The tank will burn for days and days
They’ll need three times the vehicles at a minimum.
The tripled number allows them to reduce high energy charging frequency.
Or does the military plan to create whole new regiments for replacing ruined batteries and dealing with that toxic waste.
About that charging capability?
I presume that the military will also buy far more fossil fueled generators…
So much for net-zero.
Fossil fuels for mining, refining, rolling mills, machine shops, industrial assemblage of far more vehicles and charging stations.
Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, is a complete flake if she believes her own net-zero claims.
What a laugh!
They will use infantry bodies, or maybe glasshouse inmates, to turn electricity generating treadmills.
“A Taste of Armageddon” (Star Trek 1967)
While visiting a new world the Enterprise is informed that computer simulated war has determined they have been destroyed and must immediately report for destruction.
… yeah right.
Or to add a new twist to an old Soviet aphorism: “They pretend to kill us, and we pretend we’re dying.”
A good lesson in that episode: War becomes easy when it’s clean.
War isn’t really War without the actual costs of life paid for
I believe these are written by NASA and embodied in climate models. They counter the nonsense of people like Maxwell, Einstein, Planck et al.
Little more than treasonous.
It’s just another of the many high crimes and misdemeanors targeting American sovereignty, freedom and prosperity,
I was going to say Not Treason, since the US Constitution defines treason as aiding the enemy, and where is the enemy in your usage? Then I looked it up to confirm, and found you are right, with a quibble:
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
The Green Raw Deal is certainly destructive to US society and its economy. If a foreign government was doing this, it would be the casus belli and treated as such.
But so was FDR’s New Deal, the Fed, the Central Banks, and all crony regulation since the very beginning. I think, by definition, if those abridgements of liberty were not treated as treason due to being internal politics, then neither can the Green Raw Deal.
My thinking is along the lines of “giving them aid and comfort” that this Administration is shackling our military such that it can no longer be counted upon to unequivically guarantee our liberties.
Too many believe it is our Constitution that guarantees our liberties. It is a great document, but doesn’t guarantee anything. It is the US Armed Forces that guarantee that we can agree to abide by the Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence identifies rights and freedoms as coming from God.
The Constitution elaborates the design and operation of government along with responsibilities, duties, separation of government to install and maintain a Republic form of government.
The Amendments further identify specific guarantees and explicitly elaborate them.
The Army is a function of government under the President, not one of the rights/freedoms enablers!
The first and second amendments guarantee government will abide by the Constitution.
The clowns Biden is fronting for are trying really hard to make Jimmy Carter seem competent.
They’re doing a good job of it.
And in other news, the US Army announced the conversion by 2050 of all lethal technologies to sustainable, carbon-neutral forms.
Thermonuclear B61’s , 200 stationed in the EU (and Turkey?) are carbon-neutral. Not neutral to carbon based lifeforms, but hey, Gaia after all, has a nuclear womb!
But the fast charging station for the new Abrams E-tank will reduce the life of the batteries to.
…and boy-o-boy will those explosions are gonna be big!
Also, to killing only humans. Birds, bats and coronaviruses get a free pass.
I should have put a sarc tag in there, shouldn’t I?
Perhaps next step will be the conversion of lethal technologies into non-lethal technologies…
I am sincerely sorry for you, American people.
I’m sure the left will be saving the deadly technology for their political foes.
You cannot have an army without lethal technologies, and without an army you face extinction through invasion.
We don’t need your pity, by the way.
So you don’t need sympathetic friends. OK, I take note of that.
So it’s back to bicycles for message couriers, across base transit & moving injured using stretchers (eg. towed by bicycle).
Are we to recycle shell casings, bullets and/or send e-bombs (a virtual bomb which doesn’t blow anything up)?
Maybe our computer models could fight it out to simulate the battles to pick the winner.
This reminds me of the movie “War Games” where the computer simulation was believed to represent reality, kinda like climate “research” today…..
Don’t forget the camels!
… and carrier pigeons!
… and the cavalry!
There was a Star Trek episode with this theme. “A Taste of Armageddon.”
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Shell casings from rounds fired during training were recycled back in my days in the Army (1966-1975); maybe the UN could adopt a treaty on brass recycling. Time outs from time to time to allow the local 3rd world citizens to police the battlefield to collect the expended brass. In practice, they did that anyway, they just waited until the combatants had cleared the area.
The Vietnamese pretty well cleaned up the battlefields too. That practice is as old as organized warfare.
I suppose neutron bombs are still Carbon neutral?
….. well, the bombs are but they would have the nasty habit of vaporizing carbon-based life forms.
neutron bombs are supposed to leave everything intact, just dead
They should be so classified as Gaia has, after all, a nuclear womb…
Having been in the army and knowing the need for diesel to run vehicles with, I can only roll my eyes! Yeah, I’m sure that they are saving all kinds of money using electric/hybrid vehicles. Yeah, maybe for delivering the mail.
I am sure that setting up their “microgrids” will take care of all future battle scenarios, let alone recharge stations in all of the maneuver training areas.
All tactical vehicles will weigh less than three thousand pounds. We will have Teslas running around with big signs on the sides with the word “tank” on them.
I’ve found the solution: Let’s all mount up on unicorns for our cavalry and we will run everything on pixie dust and rainbows.
I cannot imagine Guderian, Beck, Lutz, and Volckheim – developers of Blitzkrieg – hanging around waiting for tanks and self-propelled guns etc to recharge.
And recharge where?
NB There were 4,300 tanks in operation Barbarossa.
AFAIK those tanks ran on synthetic diesel, from a Rockefeller-funded IG Farben process, in a mad dash to secure oil.
Curiously Lavrov of Russia asked Liz Truss this week if the UK recognized sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh, replying the UK “will never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over these regions.” Hi*tler did not either. Amb. Bronnert had to urgently correct Truss… Makes BoJo look like a genius!
Not in 1941.
Synthetic oil made from coal, which they had lots of. What’s the difference?
All German vehicles of the time ran on petrol a.k.a. gasoline. This was refined from petroleum mainly from the Russian Georgian fields or the Romanian fields. Synthetic petrol only became of importance after the invasion of Russia in 1941.
“Operation Citadel“, Hitler’s attack on the Kursk salient in 1943, two years after the Barbarossa invasion in 1941.
German forces involved in Kursk; “The attacking German force consisted of a total of 777,000 men, 2,451 tanks and assault guns (70 percent of German armor on the Eastern Front)”.
Russians countered with “In total the Soviet forces at Kursk amounted to 1,910,361 men, 5,128 tanks and self-propelled guns”
German invasion tank forces for Barbarossa were 3,398 total tanks of all varieties.
The first Russian T34s that the Germans encountered outclassed every one of those German tanks. Unfortunately, there were not a lot of T34s in 1941.
Presumably military Unicorns will have sharpened horns.
Please send me money to buy files with.
From a military perspective it is extremely interesting that ,besides the massive decrease in mobility,
now the enemy knows how to start large Hollywood style fires with ease.
This is nearly impossible with conventional engines,
but a bullet that hits the battery will do.
And, if that bullet is depleted uranium, or even just lead, it will be vaporized and dispersed over a large area.
This reminds me of a joke about a training exercise where there was a shortage of armored vehicles. In part, soldiers were instructed to walk down the road saying “Tankity, tankity, tank.” A slightly different version can be found here:
Tankety Tank Skit (boyscouttrail.com)
Shades of Monty Python! Even worse than making the trainees say “Bang, Bang!”
With 9mm’s it was Bangsy Wangsy
Thanks
They did specify non-tactical. But your forces must be so top heavy on non-tacts. They got rid of 12,000 ICE vehicles in one year and replaced them with 3,000 hybrids over 3 years.
The Taliban now have a lot of those ICE vehicles .
Yes, let’s cripple our armed forces :facepalm:
Then do what the British do…..
Run them down and into the ground.
British ‘brains’ in London have American ‘muscle’ – just look at them do the Crown’s bidding! Iraq, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Afghanistan, Ukraine anyone?
Who needs then a functioning military? Just a few platoons to start a Tonkin, and dodgy dossiers, near Russia’s border’s and Biden will do the Crown’s bidding.
The Crown’s bidding? That is funny.
The Parliamentary dictatorship has you fooled it would appear.
The Monarchy is but an ornament, a fig leaf.
An anachronism!
Define the Armed Forces?
Will the Small Arms course in Basic Training consist of teaching flint knapping to the recruits?
I think I’ll start up a trebuchet manufacturing company and wait for the US military contracts to roll in.
You thought $300 hammers and $800 toilet seats were a tad overpriced? Wait ’til you see what I charge for an M1-Trebuchet!
Brilliant !
The only societal purpose of having an army is to bring kinetic force to an aggressor who threatens that society. Other than deterring an aggressor, having an army is wholly non-productive in that it provides no consumer goods or services to society, but itself consumes many of these in its maintenance. The very idea that an army dependent on solar, wind and batteries could ever deter or successfully engage any aggressor is ludicrous, hence maintaining such an army would be nothing but a complete burden on society. If an army’s leadership believes otherwise, they should be replaced and/or the entire army disbanded.
not gonna happen as long as witch hunters are in fashion
I’ll believe it when I see it.
You never will…
Good frickin’ grief!!! It’s not the zombie apocalypse to prepare for, the loony apocalypse is here and now and quite real. No, wait, better still; it’s a Jackass Apocalypse!!!!!!!!
The Democrat Party has an increasingly appropriate symbol: the donkey, also known as a jackass.
The central bankers apocalypse, sorry bail-out.
There is known cure for stupid.
Does it involve paperclips and electrical sockets?
And each non-tactical vehicle will be supplied with a little trailer. Said trailer will contain a small diesel generator and a 100 gallon tank of fuel. For when they have to go outside their grid.
More global warming…
EASTERN HALF OF U.S. SET FOR ARCTIC BLAST THIS WEEKEND; + SOUTH AMERICAN CROP LOSSES MOUNT
February 11, 2022 Cap Allon
EASTERN HALF OF U.S. SET FOR ARCTIC BLAST THIS WEEKEND
The mercury in the East will remain above average Friday, but the warmth will be short-lived with a polar front forecast to crash the region Saturday, sending conditions in Atlantic City, for example, from 60F to snow in a matter of hours.
More high comedy…
“Christine E. Wormuth Secretary of the Army: “The time to address climate change is now. … I challenge our Army to examine climate threats, prioritize resources, and take swift action.”
I had a few idiot bosses in my career, and two raging alcoholics, but nobody this stupid… not even close!
Pogo said it best:
Christine E. Wormuth Secretary of the Army: democratic career politician, appointed by FJB, with a BA in political science and an MA in public policy. She seems under-qualified to these old eyes. I’d think that someone with extensive military experience and more appropriate degrees would be much better qualified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Wormuth
Political appointees come and go and are never around to accomplish long term goals. The international economic war against fossil fuel producers has been loosing support and is destined to fail. I expect November’s congressional elections will signal more changes in goals.
To paraphrase, ‘never underestimate the ability of the RINOs to eff-up’.
Putin is laughing all the way to Kiev and Xi is laughing as he invades Taiwan. they know that they can’t defeat us but all they had to do was wait until we killed ourselves.
“they know that they can’t defeat us”
Do not be so sure about that. The US military is woefully unprepared for any sort of peer or near-peer conflict. The services are plagued with parts shortages, maintenance issues, asset availability, overworked personnel, procurement disasters, and chaotic mismanagement. None of these issues are localized. They run top to bottom and system-wide. War game scenarios are fantasies of utterly unrealistic assumptions and wishful dreaming. Long decades of poor programs, procurement, and funding have come home to roost. The long awaited “Terrible Twenties” are here and it is not pretty.
“they know that they can’t defeat us”
Do not be so sure about that. The US military is woefully unprepared for any sort of peer or near-peer conflict. The services are plagued with parts shortages, maintenance issues, asset availability, overworked personnel, procurement disasters, and chaotic mismanagement. None of these issues are localized. They run top to bottom and system-wide. War game scenarios are fantasies of utterly unrealistic assumptions and wishful dreaming. Long decades of poor programs, procurement, and funding have come home to roost. The long awaited “Terrible Twenties” are here and it is not pretty.
All of this “Woke” Diversity and Global warming nonsense is just more of the same.
This is the predictable result of basing military promotion on affirmative action & woke credentials.
If Eisenhower was subject to affirmative action & woke credentials- would he have picked a woman instead of George Patton to lead armies? I think not.
Actual war sooner or later separates a lot the chaff from the wheat. George Marshal did a lot of that early on. Long before he was ACS he had been compiling a little black book listing those he judged to be fit for higher command.
After that actual combat did most of the rest though there will always be some that slip through at all levels.
Ike and Nimitz were both promoted over many more Sr. than they were. Ike was groomed by Marshal.
If she was more competent as a General then maybe.
But based on what’s dangling between legs??
According to Wiki DOD uses 1.7×10^10 L of fuel. Army uses 7% of that which adds up to a billion L per year which would back of the envelope require 10kwh/ L to replace which by my quick math would mean finding a way to produce 10,00Gwh of renewable electricity unless my math is awry.
Is this peak delusion?
I doubt it’s anywhere near its peak.
To be deluded one has to give some thought to the situation. The innumerate woke politicians are working from a gender/racial workbook and have probably never given any thought whatsoever as to whether their goals can be implemented. That is some underling’s problem.
The delusion of the left!!! Their plan is ‘One World’ gov – there wil no longer be war – the UN can manage all this. This is in line with defund the police.
I’m reminded that the Oak Ridge MSR was developed with the concept of using it to power a strategic bomber.
Imagine if that idea was revisited, with better tech and smaller reactor. A plane that can fly at a hundred thousand feet and stay up their for as long as the food and air last.
Convert every naval vessel to nuclear. Micro reactors in Tanks and heavy duty personal carriers.
Automatic remote operated battle platforms.
The development of the first Bolos.
And to be fair. Electric railguns, charged by Nuclear reactors have some pretty spectacular potential, on paper. Maybe we’ll see a return of the Battleship as the queen of the seas. Nuclear powered, Railguns that can reach out and touch people two hundred and more miles away. High energy beams to take down missiles and aircraft.
Hypersonics are already here – at least in Russia and China. And a Russian nuclear powered cruise missile.
From Bonbon the russian troll everything Russian is brilliant
I believe the vodka is.
Some of it.
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Considering that military weapons are prone to being destroyed by the enemy, and if floating or flying over water, to sink when damaged, it is a little scary to think about converting all military weapons to nuclear.
Why, Clyde?
What wepossible significant harm could affect you or me or anyone else?
The natural world is awash with natural radiation.
The additions you fear are down there, lost in the noise. Geoff
Yes, radioactive potassium and even trace amounts of uranium are ubiquitous. However, plutonium and the fission products from reactors are unknown in nature. Similarly, what we now call enriched uranium hasn’t been present in the natural environment for over a billion years.
The world has agreed to halt above-ground nuclear tests because the radioactive fission products, and the neutron-induced radioactive byproducts, are dispersed around the world by winds and ocean currents, and all nations agree that the elevated radioactivity is undesirable.
The Japanese estimate that it will take at least 30 years to clean up the meltdown at Fukushima. We can handle a Fukushima and a Chernobyl. I don’t think that we can handle tens of battle ships and submarines, hundreds of tanks, who knows how many nuclear-powered aircraft, and hundreds of nuclear-powered rail guns being destroyed and dispersed around the world, or irradiating the ocean. What if all the WWII ships sunk in the Pacific Theater, and are still in their watery graves, were radioactive? Is that a world we would want to live in?
One of the advantages of petrochemical spills is that there are organisms that eat petroleum, and clean the environment. Nothing eats U235 or Pu239.
Civilian nuclear reactors are relatively safe, in my opinion. But, as I remarked, weapons of war are targets that the enemy will try to destroy. It is incredibly stupid to make fissionable materials targets.
The problem is that the Democrat wokerati have replaced competent military leaders with leaping gaping imbeciles. There is no better way to destroy any organization’s morale and operational capability than to put fools in charge. The vaxx mandates have harmed about half your military personnel and the woke idiots will do the rest. Soon you won’t be able to defend your country against an over-aggressive troop of Girl Scouts on a cookie drive.
Can just see that Hummer stopping and asking the locals in Afghanistan where the nearest charging location?
I remember once being on a GSA fieldtrip in Baja. We came to a small village that had a platform with a 55-gal drum of gasoline on the platform that supplied gasoline by gravity feed. That gave mobility to the villagers and visitors such as ourselves.
I can’t imagine a village of that size being able to afford either a very large swappable battery, or a real-time charging station that would be available 24/7. If gasoline is no longer readily available in the future, due to the efforts of the ‘woke’ intelligentsia, this will change the villager’s lives to what it was before the invention of the car.
Notice something really weird :
Sir Mike Bloomberg, billionaire, warrior against coal, is slated to become Pentagon Innovation Panel chair, and NATO chef Stoltenberg is slated for Norway’s Central Bank Governor.
A revolving door from military to finance!
Expect even weirder announcements!
Wasn’t there a drag Queen recently selected for a Biden post with no qualifications?
That’s it. I am always late to the investment party. Not this time, i am investing heavily on MIL STD extension cord future contracts.
I still don’t like the term ‘Net Zero’
The ‘net’ part of it means burning of plants and trees, in which case its not Net Zero – it’s Total Zero for everybody and everything
Am reminded of, I think,a Star Trek episode..
Was there 2 planets had been having a war which had been rumbling on since forever. But just like on Earth, technology had advanced.
Thus, instead of launching missiles and stuff at each other, they sent what were effectively emails detailing the bomb/missile they would have sent and where it was aimed at.
A supercomputer at the receiving end worked then out how many casualties there’d be.
The message was passed out/around and the appropriate number of ‘volunteers’ duly arrived, of their own volition, at some sort of annihlation machine.
A sort of a cross between an orgasmatron and a (Star Trek) transporter that ‘transported’ you to…. somewhere that you never came back from.
Or were you actually vaporised ‘on-site’ as it were
No matter. Kirk threw his fists around, Spock did what Spocks do and it was all sorted.
= no more annylation machines, at which point a middle-aged and overly made-up tart appeared and had a game of Tonsil Tennis with Kirk
or was that in another episode………..
and another
and another
and another
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I guess the US Army will have to dig up some carbon credits to pay for all those helicopters and tanks that, realistically over the next 100 years, will not be able to operate successfully (beyond year 2050) without the use of combustion of fossil fuels and associated emissions of CO2.
Even 10-mile long extension cords won’t solve this problem. 🙂
They may actually have to finally retire the B-52s!
The B-52 refit program for the H models (only ones left in service) extends their service lifetime into the 2050s. If so some of those airframes will be 90 years old when finally retired as all 102 H models were delivered between 1961 and 1963.
The B-52s stick around because they can still be very useful at a much lower operational cost than newer aircraft.
My point was, what will their payloads be if they have to carry a nuclear reactor around, replacing the weight of bombs they formerly could carry. What happens if that nuclear reactor falls from the sky after being shot by a missile or rail gun?