Pentagon- Too Late, ASSHOLES!!!
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Subject: Pentagon- Too Late, ASSHOLES!!!
Date: Jan 31, 2010 12:36 PM
Pentagon Strategy Article Below
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ROTFLMAO.
Yeah, like you abuse Lyme Borreliosis
victims, we scream our bloody eyeballs
out and get the rest of the entire
frickin *WORLD* to pay attention, so
much so that we die laughing when
JP Morgan invests in CHINESE sci-med
because they happen to tell it STRAIGHT.
Damn right, abusing American victims
of "global warming" (African Relapsing
Fever in America causing multiple epidemics
of diseases and the exposure of the CDC
lying about ALL VACCINES) has "national
security" risks.
LMAO
Too late, assholes.
The stupid whorey Dot Guv shouldn't have
abused us Lyme victims. You'd have to be a
complete and total *moron* to think a tick
would never bite a *real* *scientist.*
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
*You* *LOST* *EVERYTHING!!*
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/31-3
Published on Sunday, January 31, 2010 by The Observer/UK
Pentagon to Rank Global Warming as Destabilizing Force
US defense review says military planners should factor climate change
into long term strategy
by Suzanne Goldenberg
The Pentagon will for the first time rank global warming as a
destabilizing force, adding fuel to conflict and putting US troops at
risk around the world, in a major strategy review to be presented to
Congress tomorrow. The Quadrennial Defense Review, prepared by the
Pentagon to update Congress on its security vision, will direct
military planners to keep track of the latest climate science, and to
factor global warming into their long term strategic planning.
"While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an
accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden on civilian
institutions and militaries around the world," said a draft of the
review seen by the Guardian.
[A fisherman in the dried reservoir of Lam Takhong Dam, Thailand, a
consequence of global warming.The Pentagon says climate change does
not cause conflict but it could act as an accelerant. Photograph:
Vinay Dithajohn/EPA]A fisherman in the dried reservoir of Lam Takhong
Dam, Thailand, a consequence of global warming.The Pentagon says
climate change does not cause conflict but it could act as an
accelerant. Photograph: Vinay Dithajohn/EPA
Heatwaves and freak storms could put increasing demand on the US
military to respond to humanitarian crises or natural disaster. But
troops could feel the effects of climate change even more directly,
the draft says.
More than 30 US bases are threatened by rising sea levels. It ordered
the Pentagon to review the risks posed to installations, and to combat
troops by a potential increase in severe heatwaves and fires.
The review's release coincides with a sharpening focus in the American
defense establishment about global warming - even though polls last
week showed the public increasingly less concerned.
The CIA late last year established a center to collect intelligence on
climate change. Earlier this month, CIA officials sent emails to
environmental experts in Washington seeking their views on climate
change impacts around the world, and how the agency could keep tabs on
what actions countries were taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The CIA has also restarted a program - scrapped by George Bush - that
allowed scientists and spies to share satellite images of glaciers and
Arctic sea ice.
That suggests climate change is here to stay as a topic of concern for
the Pentagon.
The Pentagon, in acknowledging the threat of global warming, will now
have to factor factor climate change into war game exercises and long-
term security assessments of badly affected regions such as the
Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Military planners will have to factor climate change into war game
exercises and long-term security assessments of badly affected regions
such as the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia..
"The leadership of the Pentagon has very strongly indicated that they
do consider climate change to be a national security issue," said
Christine Parthemore, an analyst at the Center for A New American
Security who has been studying the Pentagon's evolving views on
climate change. "They are considering climate change on par with the
political and economic factors as the key drivers that are shaping the
world."
Awareness of climate change and its impact on threat levels and
military capability had been slowly percolating through the ranks
since 2008 when then Senators Hillary Clinton and John Warner pushed
the Pentagon to look specifically at the impact of global warming in
its next long-term review.
But the navy was already alive to the potential threat, with melting
sea ice in the Arctic opening up a new security province. The changing
chemistry of the oceans, because of global warming, is also playing
havoc with submarine sonar, a report last year from the CNAS warned.
US soldiers and marines, meanwhile, were getting a hard lesson in the
dangers of energy insecurity on the battlefield, where attacks on
supply convoys in Afghanistan and Iraq inflicted heavy casualties.
"Our dependence on fuel adds significant cost and puts US soldiers and
contractors at risk," said Dorothy Robyn, deputy Undersecretary of
Defense for the Environment. "Energy can be a matter of life and death
and we have seen dramatically in Iraq and Afghanistan the cost of
heavy reliance on fossil fuels."
She told a conference call on Friday the Pentagon would seek to cut
greenhouse gas emissions from non-combat operations by 34% from 2008
levels by 2020, in line with similar cuts by the rest of the federal
government.
In addition to the threat of global warming, she said the Pentagon was
concerned that US military bases in America were vulnerable because of
their reliance on the electric grid to cyber attack and overload in
case of a natural disaster.
The US air force, in response, has built up America's biggest solar
battery array in Nevada, and is testing jet fighter engines on
biofuels. The Marine Corps may soon start drilling its own wells to
eliminate the need to truck in bottled water in response to
recommendations from a task force on reducing energy use in a war
zone.
But not all defense department officials have got on board, and
Parthemore said she believes it could take some time to truly change
the military mindset.
Parthemore writes of an exchange on a Department of Defense list-serv
in December 2008 about whether global warming exists. It ends with one
official writing: "This is increasingly shrill and pedantic. Moreover,
it's becoming boring."
© 2010 Guardian/UK
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