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With the news not very good on the Health Care / Insurance Refrom front, it's time to bring up another part of the overall plan in the press to divert attention - Global Warming. This NYT piece tries to connect global warming and national security.
"But a growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest."
Surging seas to destroy naval bases? Well, anything is possible. Is this prominently placed piece discussing the most important issues facing us? You decide.
With the news not very good on the Health Care / Insurance Refrom front, it's time to bring up another part of the overall plan in the press to divert attention - Global Warming. This NYT piece tries to connect global warming and national security.
"But a growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest."
Surging seas to destroy naval bases? Well, anything is possible. Is this prominently placed piece discussing the most important issues facing us? You decide.
Throughout history, glaciers have always advanced and retreated. If this is in any way a threat to our national security, it's probably because we tend not to acknowledge the fact that we don't live in a vacuum. There's a great big planet under our feet, and it doesn't necessarily behave the way we want it to.
With the news not very good on the Health Care / Insurance Refrom front, it's time to bring up another part of the overall plan in the press to divert attention - Global Warming.
"divert attention," lol -- do you expect the news to report only all health care reform, all the time?
Just when I was wondering what excuse the gov't. would use in making the military more active right here in the US just like Organizing for America or Americorp or Acorn/SEIU.
Just when I was wondering what excuse the gov't. would use in making the military more active right here in the US just like Organizing for America or Americorp or Acorn/SEIU.
? This is talking about how to manage in a time of unprecedented catastrophic natural disaster.
Ms. Dory, who has held senior Pentagon posts since the Clinton administration, said she had seen a “sea change” in the military’s thinking about climate change in the past year. “These issues now have to be included and wrestled with” in drafting national security strategy, she said.
The National Intelligence Council, which produces government-wide intelligence analyses, finished the first assessment of the national security implications of climate change just last year.
It concluded that climate change by itself would have significant geopolitical impacts around the world and would contribute to a host of problems, including poverty, environmental degradation and the weakening of national governments.
“We will pay for this one way or another,” Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, a retired Marine and the former head of the Central Command, wrote recently in a report he prepared as a member of a military advisory board on energy and climate at CNA, a private group that does research for the Navy. “We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to take an economic hit of some kind.
“Or we will pay the price later in military terms,” he warned. “And that will involve human lives.”
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