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.
At least, in the future, when the terminally woke president decides to leave a bunch of military equipment in enemy hands, the equipment won’t work for very long.
If they had any real smarts, they would embed code in the microcontrollers that would require monthly updates with a new password to keep the vehicles and aircraft from being used by the enemy if captured. For that matter, they could require updates every time a fighter or helicopter was
refueledrecharged.Why are the Air Force and the Navy lagging? We should be developing an AA-battery-powered jet fighter, and a frigate.
“AA-battery-powered”?
That is so “old-age” thinking. The latest technology that Tesla is using in its autos is LFP chemistry in a 4680 form factor . . . that alone should allow Army tanks to extend their battery-powered range from, oh say, 30 miles to about 35 miles. I won’t comment on jet fighters and frigates.
Ain’t the progress of technology just great?
No need for batteries for the navy, they can use wind.
Someone ought to tell Lloyd Austin that his brain has been washed.
Overcooked by global warming.
Putin handlers must think this is disinformation strategies; Little do they know the depth of stupidity in donor funding drives.
Submarines have been electric for a long time, but grid connections were not available, so actually the Navy has been well ahead of the curve.
“Submarines have been electric for a long time…”
‘Electric Boat’ is the name of a company that comes to mind. Of course, back in the day before nuclear reactors, subs had diesels for surface propulsion when they were underway and to charge the batteries for use when they were submerged below snorkel depth.
True that.
The last diesel submarine with electric drive was decommissioned in 1990. All others are nuclear powered with gear reduction drive. The only turbine electric submarine I remember was USS Tullibee. It was a one of a kind.
All the Russian subs I remember are gear reduction drive also.
Nuclear Subs have been used in emergencies to supply shore power.
Thank goodness our air raft carriers are nuclear powered but I fear for the planes. How would they refuel in flight?
USS Lexington, CV 2 had a Turbo-electric drive. It supplied electricity to Tacoma, WA when a drought dropped water levels so low that the hydroelectric sources they relied on were compromised.
The only reason the Navy willingly agreed to their new carrier being put to such use was it gave them a chance to test the limits of the system.
These people cannot be THAT stupid: It is treason!
These people cannot be THAT stupid.
Hmm.
Wanna bet?
In DC & Whitehall, there are a few, ambitious sorts mostly, who have known no serious threat to _ respectively _ the US & UK, who think this is not only reasonable but – so help me – needed, required, to avoid an ‘existential threat from computer games.
Mann-made computer games.
So . . . I suspect, sadly, that “they” can indeed be that stupid.
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My big problem, as an ex soldier from the Cuban crisis time, is simply:
Why have all the four star generals and admirals not retired en masse?
Have they run out of types like George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Chester W. Nimitz and William F. Halsey. I doubt these essential types of warriors required to win would put up with this nonsense.
Political promotions, John. Take a look at our current Joint Chiefs.
Gen. “Mad Dog” Mattis was on the board of Silicon Valley swindle Theranos.
Not known if he is in Sir Mike Bloomberg’s Pentagon Innovation Panel.
Utopians like Mattis refused to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Syria, disobeying orders from the Commander-in-Chief.
JFK had even worse problems with Generals and Cuba. The only reason we are actually here is he overrode them.
Truman , another utopian overrode Gen. McArthur and committed the single act of nuclear terrorism in history.
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.”
The country is facing an existential threat but it is not from the climate.
I have it on good authority, that charging points will be installed on all future battlefields, before the fighting commences. This will require UN agreement on the location of all future battlefields.
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but first they’ll have to do environmental impact studies- to protect the biodiversity /s
We will also need to follow the gentlemen rules of war and not unplug the opponent.
Add heavy batteries to the backpacks….for the children.
“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.”
Retiring vehicles prematurely- then claiming you save $50 million? Or were those replacements needed?
Planned obsolescence in the private sector (Bill Gates) guarantees future customers (if they don’t catch on and are insulted by the scam). Planned military obsolescence seems nefarious and reminds me of obama’s desire for forced energy obsolesce.
It’s hard not to become a raving conspiracy nut.
American Army will be the first one in the history of the world that cannot fight during the night.
I’m sure the future Chinese historians will have a big laugh.
I have been lead to believe from Hollywood movies that
Indiansindigenous peoples did not like to fight at night. It interfered with their nightly dancing around the bonfire.ALERT: Before commenting on WUWT regarding the above article, you may want to first read the separate, recent WUWT article regarding the DHS publication National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin – February 07, 2022 02:00 pm, the summary of which is available at:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/09/dhs-anyone-who-doubts-government-covid-19-positions-is-a-seditionist/
In the Summary paragraph of that bulletin, it implies that your posting might be part of the “threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions . . .” (my underlining emphasis added).
In other words, by criticizing Secretary of the Army Christine E. Wormuth’s “climate strategy”, one might reasonably be deemed (by the media judges, whoever they are) as undermining public trust in a U.S. government institution, the US Army.
Am I worried about a “knock on my door in the dark”? See my separate post above.
Also, Let’s Go Brandon.
US Freedom convoy starts heading towards DC next week.
If you have geo-location enabled, simple – a Reaper drone is on it’s way. Collateral damage, never – they are precise!
“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. … “
That one sentence alone should demonstrate Lloyd Austin does not have the intelligence to be in charge of a large military force.
There is absolutely NO evidence that life on earth is threatened (the definition of “existential”). It is exclusively the allegations of alarmist propagandists.
What more ‘existential’ could a threat be than having to face an enemy whose intent was to ‘keel’ you? Austin seems to be unclear on what the actual role of the military should be.
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That looks to me like a spurious correlation. Today, the focus of war is destroying strategic infrastructure with bombs and long-range artillery instead of annihilating opposing armies.
Also, the evacuation and emergency treatment of wounded combatants has improved tremendously since the days of the US Civil war when the survivors of a head-on assault of a line of cannons were carried on stretchers to the surgical tent to have their limbs sawed off.
Treatment has even improved significantly since the Gulf War.
Meanwhile
“France to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050, says Macron”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/france-to-build-up-to-14-new-nuclear-reactors-by-2050-says-macron
Does bombing your enemies back to the stone age, count towards net-zero energy use?
Plenty of coal fired powerplants in East-Asia that are potential ’emissions reductions’.
In the modern model, the scientific method may infer or identify with a conclusion.
Do they count the vehicles left in Afghanistan in this metric for 2021?
Yes. Because our enemies, whoever they may be will also be “going green”, in order to “save the planet”. Because they will follow the same rules we do, and if not, they will be shamed into doing so. It wouldn’t be fair for us to hobble our army, and they not do the same. Fair is fair.
How about protecting the country from actual enemies, rather than chasing the fever dreams of doomsday hypochondriacs?
We need a writing campaign. Part of this idea is inspired by the Manhattan Contrarian. Write the Sec Army, your Senators, Senator Cotton, AOC. We need a test Brigade to work out the bugs. We cannot go full fool into this without first testing this at a Combined Arms Brigade level, then Division Level and then higher. Pick a “rising star general” to be the leader….maybe a Trans General. And then do war games at Fort Irwin against a Fossil Fuel Brigade, just to work out the bugs, and maybe against a couple of NATO ally brigades, say in Germany or Poland. Just to see where the rough spots are……a real chance for someone to earn some stars……..I remember having a small generator to run my TOC…ran on diesel fuel, but that only had a few radios and some lights that needed to run.
The term “Charge!” has a new meaning.
It will be charge break instead of truce.
They’re well on their way. The billions in military equipment abandoned in Afghanistan now have zero emissions. The naval fleet will also achieve zero emissions once it is docked perpetually to allow all sailors to undergo compulsory equity, diversity and inclusion training. The entire armed forces should have zero emissions once they are killed or rounded up and imprisoned by any number foreign enemy forces who don’t believe in running a military on unicorn farts. If only the politicians who drive this idiocy could reach zero emissions before any of their plans come to pass.
How can we stop this mad trend to give in to climate change tyranny . This is pure bollocks.
Covid is not almost over but climate change lockdowns are lurking and this time i think our goose is cooked. I am loosing all patience with the sheep and need to find a way out, maybe move to , well hell no where to move to, so be it
Public hysteria is not new. History tells us that they die out of their own accord. Why did they stop burning witches? Does anyone know?. The climate hysteria will probably die out, starting soon. Or, be replaced by another hysteria or a real war.