Navy quietly ends climate change task force, reversing Obama initiative

[jpak]

Source: Navy Times

When he took office as secretary of defense, retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis urged the armed forces to battle the effects of global climate change.

The order by Mattis was backed by a slew of scientific studies — including those commissioned by the Pentagon — and concerns expressed by a growing number of past and present military leaders.

“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis indicated in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2017.

“It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.”

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Read more: https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/08/26/navy-quietly-ends-climate-change-task-force-reversing-obama-initiative/

[SunSeeker]

1. This violates the oath these commanders took. They've now put pleasing party above their country.

Navy officials told E&E News, which initially reported the termination of the program, that the task force’s mission was one that was “no longer needed.”

So now they're lying for Trump.

Shameful.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Could I hate the fucking moron anymore than I already do?

Yes, in fact I just found out I can and I do.

I wish someone would drop a nuclear bomb on him to see if that would stop him, I can't wait for an election to possibly do it in 2020.

[ffr]

3. We'll need those resources for fighting climate change wars.

The science is in anyway. We're FUCKED!

[Ghost Dog]

12. The hard environmental and the social science is in.

Many if not most people living in societies dependant on fragile financial and waste-generating just-in-time production, global distribution and frantic consumption processes will be FUCKED, as you put it, but more because of the nature of such societies and all the other environmental damage rather than climate change itself, in my opinion.

[sakabatou]

4. Because who needs a planet?

[Cleetus Ford]

5. Trump is seething because the Obamas have purchased a place

On Martha's Vineyard, a place where he would be shunned and not welcomed if he was to buy there so he's trying to hasten the rise of the ocean to destroy the place.

Vindictive little tyrant.

[MBS]

6. This is awful.

[KT2000]

7. there will be wars

in the future over the changes brought by climate change. Who gets the Arctic??
The Navy has made changes because of climate change already.

[maxsolomon]

14. The Arctic is already divided up.

Are you thinking of Antarctica?

[KT2000]

17. No, as the Arctic melts

nations will try to control it for themselves regardless of past agreements. There is oil and the shipping lanes that each wants to control. The Navy was preparing for that eventuality before rump shut it down. Some changes had already been made to have a greater presence on the NW coast and Alaska. Who knows what happens next.
https://www.navy.mil/docs/USN_arctic_roadmap.pdf

My hunch is that rump wants in on the oil money, through the Russians, not Americans.

[maxsolomon]

18. So, you're saying that for instance

Rusher will claim Ellesmere Island from Canada? Norway will claim Franz Josef Land? Or something like that?

Again, all lands in the Arctic are part of existing nations, except Greenland which is an autonomous Danish territory.

Your "hunch" is close to a conspiracy theory.

[KT2000]

19. US will defend oil rigs

my hunch is a guess based on the fact that the republicans are bending over backwards for Russia and Putin due to oil and the money to be made. Oil - oil - oil

[maxsolomon]

20. Now you're moving the goal posts.

Of course we'll defend facilities in our territorial waters.

[KT2000]

21. No I'm not

Obama established the task force to protect American interests. rump will protect whatever will make him the richest man in the world. If Russian rigs go into American territory under rump - ???

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. More Republicon WILLFUL ignorance.

The 2020 Democrat should run with the metric system as part of her/his platform. It will drive tRump's base apoplectic and cause him to make mistakes.

Plus ...

... metrication is long overdue.

[Eugene]

10. Per the article, it's not just Trump or the GOP. Apparently there haven't been enough

installations damaged to overcome the Navy's institutional inertia. Too few at the top take climate change seriously.

[IronLionZion]

9. Navy's going to have to deal with it one way or another

as other nations use newly opened Arctic sea routes and rising sea levels impact Naval facilities

[Vinca]

11. Meanwhile, their bases are being covered in sea water now.

[turbinetree]

13. I guess they didn't watch the news.........and we the taxpayers are going to pay............BS

[maxsolomon]

15. The tentacles of the Kochtopus at work.

The blows will just keep coming until Trump is gone. Then we'll have to fight to bring back sanity. The delay in taking effective action is exactly what the Koch's money has bought.

At least Cancer couldn't be bought off with David Koch's money.

[rwsanders]

16. Very odd considering the PENTAGON released a report some time around 2003 that said

Global warming was a bigger threat to US security than global terrorism.

[hatrack]

22. Fine. Let Norfolk drown. Let Diego Garcia founder. Let Annapolis rot from the tideline up.

Let the whores and grifters and fools and clowns run the whole fucking shitshow right off the end of the pier. And then they can bob about in the sea and whine about how no one warned them, and Her Emails, and libtards and immigrants and gay marriage.

[riversedge]

23. seems the Navy is not doing its job either. damn