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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP Senator In Charge of Homeland Security Disagrees With The Pentagon On Climate Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/ron-johnson-climate-change_n_7278816.html?ir=Green&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000048WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, says he disagrees with the Pentagon's assessment that climate change is a national security concern.
The Pentagon released a report in October that assessed the national security implications of climate change. "Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning," wrote former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in the forward to the report. "Our armed forces must prepare for a future with a wide spectrum of possible threats, weighing risks and probabilities to ensure that we will continue to keep our country secure."
But Johnson said at an event in Sherwood, Wisconsin, on Saturday that he did not concur with the Pentagon's analysis.
"I disagree with that assessment," Johnson tells a questioner at the event, which the Democrat-aligned political group American Bridge 21st Century captured on video. "We're sitting here in Wisconsin. Twenty-some thousand years ago this was covered by about 5,000 feet of glaciers."
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The GOP Senator In Charge of Homeland Security Disagrees With The Pentagon On Climate Change (Original Post)
steve2470
May 2015
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angryvet
(181 posts)1. This happens to be
a candidate for out doing Sen. Inhoffe for stupidest man in the senate. Fortunately Russ Feingold is planning to run against him in 2016. Go Russ!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)2. go Russ! nt
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)3. That is why this dumb ass was appointed to his position.
I have never seen such rank stupidity as the republicans exhibit as they continue their stubborn refusal to even acknowledge climate change. Since they won't consider scientific evidence, I wonder if even a worldwide climate driven calamity would make them change. Nahhhh!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. What a ding bat!!!