Pentagon Orders Top Brass to Prioritize Obama’s Climate Change Agenda in Every Military Action

U.S. Military Focus Changed from Defense to Fake Science

The U.S. military must plan for the future. That future should include considerations like new weapons development, war planning exercises, and geopolitical threats. Instead, the Pentagon is demanding top brass incorporate climate change planning and response in all that they do. It is preposterous and should be absolutely rejected out of hand, but military brass is used to obeying orders, and so they are treating this directive as if it makes sense, rather than seeing it for the load of nonsense that it is.

It is well known that Obama does not appreciate or respect the military. What better way to demoralize and diminish the troops than to have them chasing their tails over a theory that drains money and resources from where they are needed into the coffers of third world countries and fuzzy brained academics who are determined to pound the military and the nation into submission?

To four-star generals and admirals, among them the regional combatant commanders who plan and fight the nation’s wars, the directive tells them: “Incorporate climate change impacts into plans and operations and integrate DoD guidance and analysis in Combatant Command planning to address climate change-related risks and opportunities across the full range of military operations, including steady-state campaign planning and operations and contingency planning.”

The directive, “Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience,” is in line with President Obama’s view that global warming is the country’s foremost national security threat, or close to it. Mr. Obama says there is no debate on the existence of man-made global warming and its ensuing climate change. Supporters of this viewpoint label as “deniers” any scientists who disagree.

But there are stubborn doubters. A climate center in Colorado has said its researchers looked at decades of weather reports and concluded there has been no uptick in storms. The United Nations came to a similar finding, saying there is not enough evidence to confirm an increase in droughts and floods.

The directive originated in the office of Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. Final approval came from Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work.

The directive is loaded with orders to civilian leaders and officers on specifically how counter-climate change strategy is to permeate planning.

The Department of Defense last issued a broad directive on climate change in July. It declared climate change an “urgent and growing threat to our national security” and blamed it for “increased natural disasters.”

The report also told commanders there are “more frequent and/or severe extreme weather events that may require substantial involvement of DoD units, personnel and assets in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.”

This assertion is not supported by the U.N.’s most recent global warming predictions.

Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Police Research at the University of Colorado, also has come to conclusions at odds with the Obama administration. He has testified on Capitol Hill, clashing with liberals who say his data are wrong.

“Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century,” he wrote in 2013. “No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.

“In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.”

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, Arizona Democrat, tried to silence Mr. Pielke by unleashing allegations and starting an investigation.

Fellow scientists have come to Mr. Pielke’s defense and accused Democrats of violating academic freedom.

So there you have it. The proponents of climate change are not interested in the truth, they are interested in silencing all credible push back because the evidence is broad and expanding that their computer models showing huge global disruptions are just plain wrong. And, the global warming lobby has billions of dollars at stake if their claims are shown to be wrong. Which is why they insist that we must act now, immediately, without any hesitation.

The global change fanatics insist we react without delay so they can say in five or ten years that if we had not spent ourselves into bankruptcy and completely upended our way of life, the world would have been completely destroyed by the climate catastrophe they have been predicting for so long. But if we wait and use common sense and measure and evaluate whether the climate is stable, the promoters will be completely discredited and will have to admit that their claims were simply a hoax. Unfortunately, Obama and his ilk have the authority to impose a response to a non-problem, so we can only hope that a new administration will bring with it balance and common sense. It certainly does not exist now in this administration.

Source: washingtontimes.com

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