Military prepares to respond to climate change
By W.J. Hennigan, Washington Post
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel addressed the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas on Monday, unveiling a comprehensive plan for how the U.S. military will address the effects of climate change.
Rising global temperatures, increasing sea levels and intensifying weather events will challenge global stability, he said, and could lead to food and water shortages, pandemic disease and disputes over refugees and resources.
The Pentagon’s “2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap” describes how global warming will bring new demands on the military.
Among the report’s conclusions: Coastal military installations that are vulnerable to flooding will need to be altered; humanitarian assistance missions will be more frequent in the face of more intense natural disasters; weapons and other critical military equipment will need to work under more severe weather conditions.
This isn’t what the military is for. Obummer can’t fight ISIS with troops, secure the border, or keep Ebola from Africa out, but the Military is “ready” for climate change? This Obummer gang is a national joke that people want out of office now. Vote all liberals out!
Go climb back under your rock injustice. Your rants are as stale as moldy bread…
Yeah Justice, everyone in America is just itch’n to go back into Iraq, spend Trillions of Dollars, get thousands of GI’s killed or wounded and see another banner on an Aircraft Carrier that reads “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!”
Ask McCain and Graham to go over and talk to their pals, the ISIS Rebels, they are buddy-buddy with them and wanted to give them weapons just last year.
Why is it that Republican Con Artist are willing to waste Trillions of Dollars and thousands of lives over Oil and Civil Wars between Sunnis and Shiites in the Middle East then turn around and CUT spending for Ebola Research in America.