From Climate Depot
Via Military.com: The 50-page plan, which is an extension of the service’s overall Army Climate Strategy released earlier this year, offers a series of ambitious goals to meet Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s 2021 call to “immediately take appropriate policy actions to prioritize climate change considerations” as the Pentagon points to several instances of climate change-related events that have affected the services.
The Climate Strategy Implementation Plan said: “While the Army cannot address all or even most GHG emissions, the right initiatives, investments, and policies can significantly reduce Army GHG emissions while at the same time enhancing readiness.” … The Army is looking to further reduce that consumption, while battening down the hatches for the damage climate change will likely bring. …
“As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Army must adapt its installations, acquisition programs, and training so that the Army can operate in this changing environment and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth in a Wednesday press release.
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By: Admin – Climate Depot
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/05/army-releases-new-plan-mitigate-climate-change.html
Excerpt: The Army on Wednesday released its new plan describing how it intends to combat climate change built around trying to survive increasingly extreme weather while limiting the service’s contribution to the problem.
While the plan offers ways to reduce climate change, it does so without directly acknowledging the military’s hand in exacerbating the problem as one of the largest industry emitters of greenhouse gases in the world.
As the Pentagon pushes through what many experts describe as likely irreversible impacts to the planet resulting from emissions, the service’s plan is founded on one very Army word: mitigation.
The 50-page plan, which is an extension of the service’s overall Army Climate Strategy released earlier this year, offers a series of ambitious goals to meet Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s 2021 call to “immediately take appropriate policy actions to prioritize climate change considerations” as the Pentagon points to several instances of climate change-related events that have affected the services.
“Dangerous levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) have already accumulated in the Earth’s atmosphere,” the Climate Strategy Implementation Plan said. “While the Army cannot address all or even most GHG emissions, the right initiatives, investments, and policies can significantly reduce Army GHG emissions while at the same time enhancing readiness.”
“In climate change terms, this is known as ‘mitigation,’” it continued.
One area where climate change is causing challenges for the Army is by creating increasingly extreme weather.
“The effects of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change have already had profound impacts on the DOD,” a Pentagon press release said Monday, going on to describe damages to military installations as a result of extreme weather and rising sea levels.
In 2018, Hurricane Michael demolished at least half of the structures on Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, costing $5 billion to fix, according to the release, one example of the potential impact of extreme weather on military facilities.
The increase in extreme weather will also put a strain on the National Guard‘s disaster response abilities, the Pentagon said, as the country watched Guardsmen rescue people from extreme weather in Kentucky and Florida recently.
The Army also included an ominous warning about the broader risks that climate change poses for the military.
“Indeed, climate change has been described as a ‘threat multiplier,’” the plan said. “Extreme drought and flooding will displace individuals and communities, increasing the potential for human conflict and the demand for Army humanitarian relief and disaster response at home and abroad.”
“For the foreseeable future, climate impacts will disrupt Army activities and increase the frequency of crisis deployments,” the plan added.
But in trying to explain the impact and countermeasures the military will take, the services have generally been reticent to address the scale of military emissions.
As of 2019, the military has released over 1,000 million metric tons of greenhouse gases since 2001, according to a study from Brown University’s Watson Institute.
The Pentagon produced a total of “527 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent from 2010 to 2017, an average of about 66 million metric tons per year in this period, roughly the same greenhouse gas emissions of 14 million passenger cars driven for one year,” according to the study.
The military was also the single largest consumer of energy in the United States at the time, although as the Global War on Terror has come to a close, the energy consumption levels have steadily dipped over the last decade.
The Army is looking to further reduce that consumption, while battening down the hatches for the damage climate change will likely bring.
“As extreme weather becomes commonplace, the Army must adapt its installations, acquisition programs, and training so that the Army can operate in this changing environment and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth in a Wednesday press release. “This climate implementation plan will improve our resiliency and readiness in the face of these changes.”
Some of the Army’s goals outlined in the Climate Strategy Plan include the introduction of an Electric Light Reconnaissance vehicle next year — the first in what the service hopes to be a long line of rechargeable combat vehicles by 2050. Additionally, the Army wants to provide “100% carbon-pollution-free electricity” for all its installations by 2030; achieve a reduction of 50% greenhouse emissions for all Army buildings by 2032; and achieve “net-zero” emissions for all installations by 2045.
The plan released Wednesday is meant to provide guidance on how to support those goals. Instructions include “using existing Army processes” to reach the goals, tracking emission closely, and allowing subordinate units to participate in “technology assessment and demonstration programs which provide resources to test and validate new ideas.”
The Air Force released its own climate action plan a few hours before its sister branch, promising a net-zero emissions goal by 2046, according to NBC News.
— Drew F. Lawrence can be reached at drew.lawrence@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @df_lawrence.
Related: Army Lays Out Ambitious Goals to Combat Climate Change, Including Electric Tactical Vehicles
These reports seem to confirm that the term “military intelligence” is an oxymoron.
So is putting a picture of a ship above an article on the Army. You can’t help wondering about some people…
I tried really hard to do solar powered or wind powered tanks, but just couldn’t get it to work. My bad.
You could have had gerbils turning the tank treads … 😎
Two of my brothers way back when joined the military. One went into the Navy and the other the Army. The Army one ended up on a ship off of Alaska spying on Russian communications and the Navy one never saw the sea for his first four years. Both ended up being lifers, so the Army one finally got off the high seas and the Navy one did end up getting lots of ocean time on carriers.
I read once that the largest navy in the world during WW2 was not the US Navy but the US Army. (“Largest” being the number of floating craft.)
A useless but fun fact to bring up in friendly circumstances. 😎
That should be a clue to the difficulty that the Army and Marines will have actually implementing electric fighting vehicles.
To be fair, the navy also has reason to fear climate change as rising sea levels will increase drag on the hulls of their ships.
I’ll get me coat.
Groan.
Super Groan!
OK. I admit I can be dense at times. I didn’t get the joke.
It seems it was a “super groaner” that others got.
I often have to explain why something I said was funny to everybody around me.
(If I get a laugh, it’s usually during the explanation.)
What did I miss here?
You haven’t heard that a rising
tideocean raises all boats?Plus they’ll have to raise the sides a bit to cope.
Fixed.
I noticed. And they don’t have any guns. Wouldn’t want to offend anybody, or worse, accidently shoot a tree!
When the President is a nut case the entire government follows.
He was never very capable. He was always ‘left’. Obama said, ‘Never underestimate Joe’s ability to screw things up.’ Only thing Obama got right.
Rud, no, Obama got two things right. Here’s his entire quote. Obama has been proven right on both counts.
Let’s not forget, what Obama , said about Joe “Don’t underestimate Joes ability to fu** things up. And you know, who really doesn’t have it? Joe.” That’s from Obama! Pretty damming article.
https://politi.co/36fPnRV
President Joe Biden and his Woke Pentagon generals are not the only ones in denial of the real climate hazards don’t you agree John ? https://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/younger-dryas-caused-by-a-volcano-after-all/
Very ominous considering Malthusians are in charge and the threat of nuclear war is the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
They’ve been after doing a nuclear war for positively ages – there was a theory going round, which Killary was a huge fan of, that if the US fired a massive first strike at Russia, the retaliatory strike wouldn’t be very bad at all and their anti-missile defences could probably cope. It fell down of several key points but they still like the idea despite the fact it is complete and utter bollix.
I think the threat of nuclear war is much less now than during the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was much more of a chance back then of miscalculating than there is now. We know each other pretty well now. We didn’t back then.
Unless, Putin is completely insane, and I don’t think he is, then there won’t be a nuclear weapon being used in the Ukraine war. No good will come from using a nuclear weapon for any of those involved including the Russians. I doubt seriously that Russian oligarchs want their cushy life ended by an insane Putin.
Biden isn’t the best judge of this situation so we should not be quoting him.
I can’t help feeling that Putin is more predictable than Zelensky or Biden.
The US military surrendered to political correctness long ago. The leadership is full of woke generals. They are more than happy to serve their woke civilian masters.
To put it bluntly, the Pentagon needs an enema.
“Dangerous levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) have already accumulated in the Earth’s atmosphere,””
LOL…. Army is obviously run by the very ignorant, and very woke.
The idiocy will only get deeper.
CO2 levels are barely above plant-life subsistence levels..
There is no “danger” up to several times the current levels.
There will never be a danger level of CO2 in the earths atmosphere.
It is a well known fact that is kept hidden from the public that the effect of CO2 on warming the atmosphere is logarithmic .
For those that don’t know what logarithmic is I will explain .
The first 100 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere has the greatest warming potential .
The second 100 ppm of CO2 has only half of the warming potential of the first 100 ppm.
The CO2 in earths atmosphere has now recently increased to double 200 ppm to 400 ppm.
There is very little of any warming potential for any increase in the levels of CO2 in the worlds atmosphere from now on .
The faulty theory of climate change rely’s on the tropical hotspot which is nonexistent despite satellite monitors circling the earth searching for it .
Governments around the world are walking blind folded into food and energy shortages that will not end well .
History will be the judge of how so many were fooled into harming the worlds population in the vain quest of reducing green house gas emissions .
The new lie is brain functioning drops by 20% at CO2 concentration of 1,000 ppm.
The Officer corps is all college educated (with the exception of Navy LDOs). They have all spent at least 4 years of their lives marinated in leftist drivel. This introduces weirdness into the thinking of even patriotic young adults. Add to that the incessant leftism of the civil service and the appointment to general officer ranks by leftist politicians (and even more-centrist politicians who accept the expert advice of the leftist bureaucrats) and you get a mass of bad decision making – so the whole military winds up missing the target to the left.
Here’s my really good idea for the US military to combat climate change.
How about giving away $8Bn worth of hardware to the Taliban/Mujahideen/ISIS/Mohamed’s corner shop, then spunk another $10Bn on a war in a tiny corner of Europe that has nothing to do with the US (sans Hunter) and finally grovel to middle eastern barbaric tribesman for oil America has by the shedload. Because that’s obviously all going to ‘vaccinate’ the planet against climate change.
Throw in John Kerry just for fun.
Whaddya mean it’s been tried???
No one could possibly be that dumb. I was just kidding you know, Joe.
Biden isn’t just the worst POTUS in American history, he’s the worst politician on the planet, evah!
Tell that to ‘the power behind the throne.’
Someone should sell them a solar powered night fighter
They probably have. And it’s a stealth fighter!
Radar can’t spot it in the air because it never leaves the ground!
What’s next, solar/wind powered submarines? The <i>expletives redacted</i> boats will never leave the dock.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…
At least they’d sink.
That meets half the requirement of a submarine.
The US submarine fleet is almost all battery/nuclear powered now, they got rid of the diesel fleet subs a while ago, iirc. At least with any rising sea levels they’ll have much more space to hide in!
maybe they could fight climate change with anti climate change bombs
How about a wind-powered version with sails? They worked well in the 17th. Century.
And oars!
No more worries about our aircraft carriers being becalmed!
Tell me there are battery powered fighter jets and bombers, please tell me.
You have seen the drones they use, haven’t you?
You mean Brandon?
Of course there are! Otherwise they would have their range limited by the length of the extension cords.
Having just lost a 20+ year war against a 7th century culture, the Army is now looking for the next war that they can lose at even greater expense.
The Army didn’t lose the war, the cluelss, cowardly politicians gave it away.
Mission creep at the five sided foxhole.
So comforting to know the DoD will fight climate change—and lose. They also lost to the Kong and the Taliban. Get woke, go broke applies to the Army as it’s 2022 recruiting goals fail bigly.
Rud, I resemble that comment about losing to the Cong. And got a Purple Heart for my effort.
As with all military disasters, both Vietnam and Afghanistan were lost by DC. The guys and gals in the field did their jobs to the limits imposed by DC.
The folks on the pointy end live in reality. The folks in DC live in a weird fantasy land where they think they are in control of everything in the world, when they in fact do very little good for anyone.
Good comment.
I still have my magnetic bumper sticker from the 2004 election that says “Viet Cong vets for Kerry”
I am sure Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Yemen and more are thrilled at the news and with very low new military enrollments even better.
Does having a Laughingstock for a military invite aggression from the bad guys? I think it probably does. The Bad Guys won’t take us seriously anymore and might tend to get reckless in their behavior towards us thinking they have nothing to fear from fools.
I recently heard the gentleman speak at one of the academy graduations. He seemed like a fairly intelligent person, but he has evidently caught the “climate madness”.
Does Rosetta Stone come in Chinese?
I submitted my fully working scale model to the Navy, just waiting funding
Dingbats on the Parade Ground.
And on those floating islands called ships, plus bird imitating heavier than air machines.
Once the head of forces shows up in his rainbow camouflage, states his preferred pronouns and displays his solar powered nerf gun, the enemies will scatter like hardened criminals threatened with early bed and no dessert.
“As extreme weather becomes commonplace”
We see this glib phrase over and over.
Extreme weather has not increased.
We should ask time and time again of those who say it, “When is this extreme weather going to show itself? What form will it take? How can you predict that it is going to happen?”
Heatwaves. It is like rote learning for the ignorant to chant “Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, hotter and longer”. I say they are not, that this is bunkum based on studies that use cerise cueilette extraordinaire, to start time series at historic low point, to use special definitions of heatwave, to avoid what the simple raw data shows …
Oh for the old days of honest, replicable science, properly peer reviewed and with papers limited by need to the more important advances in science.
What on Earth has happened so that the design of USA defence forces, on which several other countries rely in part, is prescribed by a career woman politician who has not been in combat and who is described on wiki as
“Wormuth unveiled five other objectives, including creating a more data-centric force and adjusting to climate change. Her other three objectives are aimed at people. She wants to improve command climates across the force and reduce bad behaviors like harassment, racism and extremism.” How far can ridicule go?
Geoff S
I hope we don’t have to learn that fads don’t win wars.
The next war, we will get a participation trophy.
Extreme weather events have decreased by 10% globally over the past 21 years ..So at best the extreme weather trendine might flatline in ten years time ?….The leaked 2004 Pentagon paper predicted all manner of apocalyptic doom – for example the British Isles enveloped in a Siberian climate by now – and none of the prognostications have come to pass .. None of them ever do ! The Pentagon has evidently learned nothing after that embarrassment… .Indeed none of the climate and ecological catastrophe predictions of the last 50 years have materialized .. The world is entering the most dangerous era of totalitarian great power aggression since the 1930’s and this nonsense is what they have prioritized ? …The adversaries of the United States are scoffing and laughing at the US military command – particularly Woke -lords Mark Milley and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin who are totally out of their depth . If they choose to ‘serve at the pleasure of the most hopeless bumbling president in the history of the United States that is their choice ….They are not serving the national security interests of the United States….What is tragically unfolding within the US military reminds me of the Stalinist ideological purges and fighting capability corrosion of the Red Army in the years leading up to the surprise Operation Barbarrossa invasion ….
How long will it be before their Allies tell the US military that they don’t want their assistance and would they please just go home?
Of course it has. We now see multiple 1 in 1,000 year extreme rain/flood events annually. Typhoon and hurricane strength is increasing.
Bulls Wool griffy..
Records show that floods ,droughts and heat waves have been just as common and more severe than they are now .
Ever hear about Noah’s flood?
Have you ever heard about the Medieval warm period MWP or the Roman warm period or the climate optimum.
You have been duped with all the propaganda you watch on television.
You are nothing but a useful idiot as you have been brainwashed by the constant drivel.
You are misinformed or just plain ignorant.
He is both misinformed and ignorant. Which would be less of a problem if he could actually tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Griff is WUWT’S cross to bear.
They, their kind, have normalized wicked solutions before. It’s a case of hopes and dreams of aborting the baby, cannibalizing her profitable parts, sequestering her carbon pollutants, and have her, too. So much for the good guys ethos. Climate cooling… warming… perturbations, conflation of logical domains (e.g. cargo cult) are the least of their concern. One step forward, two steps backward.
Where’s that one step forward?
Yep, the Climate Cancel Culture is 1 step backward 2 steps backward 1 LEAP into the abyss
Maybe we should consider it as slithering backwards towards totalitarianism.
Our service men and women attacking on electric scooters will bring terror to the hearts of our adversaries…..
They’ll die laughing?
major new Army budget item:
‘The end is nigh!” signs, which recruits will carry in place of more traditional arms as they practice marching against the new enemy..
I thought the job of the military was to fight other armies; k!ll the enemy and blow up things. Have they figured out how to fight Climate Change™?
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That would be a neat trick. What, exactly do they blow up? What enemy do they k!ll?
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How does the military know when they have won? When “The Climate” raises a white flag?
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The military should stay in its lane and let the ignorati bang their heads against the wall while trying to stop “The Climate” from changing.
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They should but… orders from The Big Guy.
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BTW, the U.S, armed forces are (were?) well equipped to fight regardless of the climate. They have desert gear, tropical gear, polar gear, ships that will continue to float if sea levels rise, submarines that don’t care how high the sea level goes, and aircraft that fly under all sorts of adverse conditions.
What the #$@ur momisugly!&!! concern is it of the military what the climate is?
Frankly, if I believed all the climate crap and what it says is coming, when “it” hits the fan, I’d want the US military prepared to defend us from those wanting our resources rather than driving around in Climate Friendly Clown Cars.
One of the current lies is that CC will cause more wars.
Huh. Hadn’t heard that one, Dave.
No surprise, though. Climate Change™ causes everything bad. Add it to the list.
H.R., that one has been around for some time. Future CC-caused human migrations are speculated to cause wars. Alarmists even said the Syrian civil war was caused by CC (drought).
I seem to recall it was a military assessment under Obama.
I might be mistaken. I know he was.
(He lost his “War on Coal”. Coal is alive and well in China. It should be here.)
“The military should stay in its lane and let the ignorati bang their heads against the wall while trying to stop “The Climate” from changing.
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They should but… orders from The Big Guy.”
Exactly.
This is why Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, the Taliban, etc., are not worried by our military which is focused on everything except winning wars.