{"id":274406,"date":"2010-02-04T00:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/government-s-out-step-agitprop-global-warming-39027\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:38:18","slug":"government%c2%92s-out-of-step-agitprop-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274406","title":{"rendered":"Government\u0092s Out-of-Step Agitprop on Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.03.10 02:00 PM posted by James Carafano<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/alaskan-glaciers100128.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Listening to Washington, you would never know that today\u0092s hot topics include <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2009\/12\/01\/climate-emails-have-rippling-effects\/">Climategate, <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/01\/rapidly-melting-credibility\/">Glaciergate, and an increasingly bitter debate about what we really know about our capacity to accurately forecast global climate change.<\/p>\n

In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama asserted that there is \u0093overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.\u0094 The Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon are following the President\u0092s lead in Lemming-like fashion.<\/p>\n

<atitle="http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/laurarozen\/0210\/DNI_forecasts_global_threats.html" href="http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/laurarozen\/0210\/DNI_forecasts_global_threats.html">In his testimony to Congress, Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, stated, \u0093We continue to assess that global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for US national security interests over the next 20 years because it will aggravate existing world problems\u0097such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions\u0097that threaten state stability.\u0094<spanid="more-25530"><\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, <atitle="http:\/\/www.hsdl.org\/hslog\/?q=node\/5348" href="http:\/\/www.hsdl.org\/hslog\/?q=node\/5348">the Pentagon has warmed up to climate change as well. \u0093For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the <atitle="http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/qdr\/QDR%20as%20of%2026JAN10%200700.pdf blocked::http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/qdr\/QDR<\/a> as of 26JAN10 0700.pdf" href="http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/qdr\/QDR%20as%20of%2026JAN10%200700.pdf" target="_blank">Quadrennial Defense Review , the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years. In the review, Pentagon officials conclude that climate change will act as an \u0093accelerant of instability and conflict,\u0094 ultimately placing a burden on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.\u0094 A five-minute NPR audio report can be found <atitle="http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121352495 blocked::http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121352495" href="http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121352495" target="_blank">here.<\/p>\n

The problem with all these dire warnings is that:<\/p>\n

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  1. They don\u0092t come with an accompanying asterisk. <atitle="http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=3f2b7 16d-5164-4ae0-b1e8-036fc51bf106" href="http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=3f2b7 16d-5164-4ae0-b1e8-036fc51bf106">The reality is there is no way to forecast the impact of climate change on national security.<\/li>\n
  2. They don\u0092t tell you that the administration\u0092s plan for dealing with global climate change may be the <atitle="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2009\/08\/13\/why-carafano-has-it-right-on-climate-change-part-ii\/" href="..\/2009\/08\/13\/why-carafano-has-it-right-on-climate-change-part-ii\/">biggest national security threat of all because of its potential to wreck the US and the global economy and worst of all that is actually unlikely to affect global warming.<\/li>\n
  3. They don\u0092t acknowledge that the White House is largely using the national security argument to push a political agenda. The QDR, for example, even suggests that global warming makes the case for passing the Law of the Sea Treaty. A treaty that not only has nothing do with climate change but, <atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/internationalorganizations\/lost.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/internationalorganizations\/lost.cfm">experts including Reagan\u0092s Attorney General Ed Meese, would argue, undermines US sovereignty and security.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nhttp:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/03\/…lobal-warming\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On 02.03.10 02:00 PM posted by James Carafano <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/alaskan-glaciers100128.jpg"><\/p>Listening to Washington, you would never know that today\u0092s hot topics include <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2009\/12\/01\/climate-emails-have-rippling-effects\/">Climategate, <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/01\/rapidly-melting-credibility\/">Glaciergate, and an increasingly bitter debate about what we really know about our capacity to accurately forecast global climate change. In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama asserted that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}