Friday, February 5, 2010

Pentagon's Climate Change Command

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President Obama is hurrying to create military climate change command, apparently planning to spend a big chunk of increasingly scarce Defense Department funds on monitoring global warming.

Even though climate change science is questionable, Obama and the Democratic Congress are setting the stage to focus the Pentagon on doomsday environmentalism.

Such dangerous diversion of Pentagon resources set off alarm bells for retired Adm. James Lyons, the former commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Lyons wrote Obama encouraging the president to form a review panel to study the purported links between climate change and national security

“…before we adopt policies that affect military preparedness and national security.”

“…it is imperative that we act on honest assessments of the best available information.”

“…when it comes to the climate change-national security link …

"any confidence in scientific pronouncements that may have existed in 2009 does not exist in 2010.”



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