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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPentagon's New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details - The entire Marine Corps
The Pentagons New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details
The entire Marine Corps, for instance.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/the-pentagons-new-climate-change-report-is-missing-some-important-details/
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Less than two months after President Donald Trump said he did not believe a federal report outlining the existential threat of man-made climate change, the Defense Department has released its own report on how to manage the effects of a changing climate.
As part of the defense spending bill for fiscal year 2018, the Pentagon was asked to create a list of the ten most vulnerable military installations within each service in addition to combatant commander requirements resulting from climate change over the next 20 years. The 22-page report begins with 11 words that contradict the commander in chiefs description of climate change as a very expensive hoax. It states, The effects of a changing climate are a national security issue. Those lines comprise the strongest part of the report, retired naval officer David Titley, who once headed the Navys Task Force on Climate Change, tells Mother Jones in an email. But the rest, he says, is disappointing, primarily because it does not answer the key questions Congress raised.
For example, Marine Corps bases are not listed at all, even though Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the Marines largest base on the East Coast, was devastated in September by Hurricane Florence to the tune of roughly $3.6 billion in damage. Ninety-five percent of the buildings on Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida were damaged by Hurricane Michael, yet in the appendix to the Pentagons report, Tyndall is not even mentioned as one of the Air Forces most vulnerable bases.
Other aspects of the report just seem crudely out of date, even though it was submitted a month later than Congress had requested. In November, Naval Base Ventura County in California had to be evacuated due to approaching wildfires, yet in the report, the Navy does not list NBVC or, for that matter, identify a single installation where wildfires pose a current threat. Titley thinks the problem is the lack of an apparent DOD standard for assessing the near- or mid-term climate future and impacts. One reason for this might be because, according to the report, each military service was free to select information sources they deemed relevant.
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Pentagon's New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details - The entire Marine Corps (Original Post)
KelleyKramer
Jan 2019
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Hekate
(90,737 posts)1. That is very strange. Back during the BushCheney admin, the Pentagon produced an internal paper...
...on the national security implications of global climate change. While Dubya was denying it on behalf of his evangelicals, the Pentagon was proceeding on their own to assess it, and I was oddly comforted to know that they were neither stupid nor ignorant.
The current report cited above signals yet another disastrous degradation of a necessary branch of our government.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,379 posts)2. seems geared to placating the man-baby
They failed to prepare the report required by law. I don't think this will be fine for long.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. ...