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
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That photograph is the epitome of today’s science for the woke crowd.
The Army needs no climate strategy; they need to study the strategy required to survive on the battle field and a strategy to fill the 25% recruitment deficit.
It’s worse than that. It looks to be a 48% recruitment deficit, more if you look at how many they’ve let go. If the Democrat idea was to reduce the US Armed Forces down to the lowest level in the last 100 years then they might just be firmly on track.
To solve the climate crisis!
First make sure no politician or appointed office holder have any investment in EV, To include family members and overseas accounts. Then enjoy the good weather and a strong military.
Prioritize climate change?
The Army should have a lot higher priorities like DEI.
These ideas won’t last more than 1 day of active combat engaged with the enemy. Solar panels get bullet holes, fractures from bush bashing or nearby explosions, bits broken off, covered by camouflage or left behind. Power generators & grid become larger targets by the enemy.
Can we settle these fights using computer games (simulation)?
Meet the new net-zero joint strike fighter.
That’s a good illustration of the absurdity of this whole thing.
Oh look bigger aiming points, susceptible to rifle fire.
Remember, when the Commander in Chief tells the military to do something, then that’s what the Generals do. No one should be surprised. We are fighting climate change.
The first battle will take place in November of this year, and the second in November of 2024.
While tanks are immune to small-arms fire, solar panels are not. A single fragmentation grenade launched from a rifle (or drone quad-copter) would probably cripple a tank. It wouldn’t be able to move, and the auto-loader and turret would be useless. They would, at best, be reduced to relying on their machine guns — until infantry snuck up in blind spots to use a Molotov Cocktail. If battery-powered, it may not happen immediately, but no battery will drive a tank for very long.
There are non so blind as those who will not see!
All executive branches of the federal government, military included, are issuing climate action plans upon orders of the woke puppeteers who control Biden. None have any expectation that these plans will stand and be implemented. They are virtue signaling, showing their obedience to the commander in chief. A change in the political winds will not see the plans eliminated so much as they will be conveniently forgotten.
It is one thing to write a plan, but another altogether to try and implement and sustain it, especially since the best the military plans can do is mess around on the fringes.
Defund the climate!
Just how are the forces going to provide 100% “carbon pollution free electrcity for all their facilities by 2030”?
Countries can’t do that so how are the U.S. forces going to do it, will they let us into their secret?
Realistically, and more to the point, how are commanders of the forces selected, it seems not for their intelect?
It’s the ‘Peace-time Military Syndrome’ and it’s more obvious in the navy but it has got entrenched in all of the branches of the military. With no large scale wars to fight, political skills and looking good become far more important to a career than combat skills, ability to do the job and leadership. Military personnel see their route to advancement through sucking up to the correct political bosses and outperforming each other in saying and doing the things designed purely to fit in with the political agenda of the current administration. It’s always been a problem but now it’s a threat all by itself.
These people want to disarm the USA. Make no mistake about that. It’s not about climate change, it’s about weakening the military to satisfy pink haired weirdos.
Then they’re doing a damn fine job – another term or two and there won’t even be a US military.
US General: “I say, (insert enemy), could we just stop fighting for an hour or so while we recharge our batteries?”
US General: “Damn, those pesky (insert enemy), they prepared to fight a war while we prepared to fight climate change.”
Never have we needed new military leadership as much as now.
What could possibly go wrong?
The whole bureaucracy impeaches itself.
Sec Austin is proof that ‘the Peter Principle’ doesn’t always limit advancement to one level above one’s abilities. Sometimes the incompetent are pushed higher in order to destroy a group or nation.
Failing to the top.
I don’t know what the military is going to do to reduce their CO2 output, but I don’t think it will include putting solar panels on armored vehicles.
There’s only so much a functioning military can do in this regard. I don’t see combat vehcles being electrified anytime soon.
And just how much jet fuel is being burned to keep the west coast tinder dry via weather modification?
This degradation of the military, FBI, CIA, etc started when slick Willy Clinton sent lefties around to colleges encouraging lefties to join those organizations to change them from within. That’s where all the wokerati leaders came from that we have now.
And Hillbillary loaded up the DOJ personally.
I wonder how she escaped prosecution?
According to Kamala Harris the Military need to get rid of batteries ??? And replace with solarpanels ??? Who told her such nonsense ??? A 250watthour battery is about as big as a lunchbox and weighs about 2 kilograms and is very rugged . A 250watt solar panel in midsummer sun at 12 midday with no clouds will need to be approx 1.4 sq meters in area , best case scenario ! A bit of cloud , late afternoon 4.00+ or early morning , twice that amount will be needed , Approx 3 sq meters and an overall weight of about 3-4 kilograms at least . And rollup maybe , but you can’t fold the roll so its going to be a roll about 1meter long sticking out of his backpack and extremely vulnerable to anything (delicate) . No military in the world would ever contemplate such a ridiculous idea .
Next they will be saying battery powered tanks are coming ,Ohh whats this !:
Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) – Britain’s
equivalent of America’s DARPA military research agency – has begun a
£3.2 million (US$4.1 million) project to develop electric vehicles.
“A key focus will be electric drive systems for future tanks and robotic vehicles,” according to the Daily Telegraph.
And they think they are going to charge them with solar cells !!!! A 55 ton tank will need at least a 5-600 kw motor and a battery pack to give a good range , of at least 1.6 megawatt hours = 4 hours operation at medium speed at least to be even remotely effective !
A 1.6 megawatt battery pack will be as big a car and weigh about 5 ton and will be extremely vulnerable to anytype of damage at all resulting in bursting into flames .
I wonder about the G-force rating of these batteries. Will they survive a tank traveling 45MPH, becoming momentarily airborne as it crests a ridge, and then slamming into the ground?
They miss-spelled ‘fatuous’.
Just another example that the only requirement to make 4-stars in DC is money laundering in foreign wars, like Milley & Austin.
These people are insane!!!!
This is the result of people being driven by ideology rather than reality.