More Visionary GOP Leadership: Platform Slams DOD Focus On Climate Change

[hatrack]

The official Republican platform takes aim at Obama administration military planning documents that emphasize the security risks of climate change, alleging they reveal a White House that has strayed from core defense priorities.

The GOP platform, which delegates to the party’s convention in Tampa, Fla., endorsed Tuesday, includes several criticisms of the White House National Security Strategy released in 2010. Among them:

[T]he strategy subordinates our national security interests to environmental, energy, and international health issues, and elevates “climate change” to the level of a “severe threat” equivalent to foreign aggression. The word “climate,” in fact, appears in the current President’s strategy more often than Al Qaeda, nuclear proliferation, radical Islam, or weapons of mass destruction.

But defense analysts say that climate change presents security risks by creating conflicts over affected resources and other challenges. “The danger from climate change is real, urgent, and severe. The change wrought by a warming planet will lead to new conflicts over refugees and resources; new suffering from drought and famine; catastrophic natural disasters; and the degradation of land across the globe,” the 2010 White House security strategy states.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/246211-gop-platform-slams-military-focus-on-climate-change

[SharonAnn]

1. This was started during the Bush years and early reports were

that global warming was the biggest security threat we faced.

[pscot]

2. Dawg forbid

we shoud subordinate the national interest to reality. These people are like Kurtz in Conrad's novella; they've kicked themselves free of the Earth.