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New Military !!
Topic Started: Mar 12 2013, 09:34 PM (184 Views)
Mason
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The U.S. Commander of the Pacific Forces said the Number one threat the U.S. Military faces is:

G L O B A L W A R M I N G



This is the new Military.


http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/10/commander-of-u-s-pacific-forces-says-global-warming-is-our-top-threat/


Can Commander Gore be far off?


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Edited by Mason, Mar 12 2013, 09:35 PM.
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LTC8K6
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Maybe they should stop burning all that fossil fuel then?

We can start with all those golf course/vacation jaunts...
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kbp

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp?region=ep

Here's a handy tool to track hurricane records. You can click the tabs for regions, the columns to sorts what order you wantthem in, click the column twice if you want to reverse the order (most storms v. least storms...).

The planet has been warming for 200 years, and did rise a little faster for a couple decades up to the turn of the century.

Maybe it is causing a few more storms, maybe not - I do not know for sure. The

I had seen the climate change mentioned as a military problem before. Admiral Locklear seemed to be saying he blames the climate change for increased storms. As it applies to the military, I guess it would be policing areas damaged by storms.

We'd previously discussed how they have been announcing the "record breaking storms" each new year, finding one record or another to color the storms as being more than we've experienced in the past. It seemed like the real factor was more development at a higher cost, so the damage from storms is more costly today than years ago.

Financial losses and turmoil which follows may actually be a topic of concern for a military commander of a region that has no wars for him to take care of ....left to only worry about preventing battles.

BUT...

He seems to be working too hard on the "what if's" here:

  • But when it comes to pragmatic military planning, Locklear said he is increasingly focused on another highly destabilizing force.

    “The ice is melting and sea is getting higher,” Locklear said, noting that 80 percent of the world’s population lives within 200 miles of the coast. “I’m into the consequence management side of it. I’m not a scientist, but the island of Tarawa in Kiribati, they’re contemplating moving their entire population to another country because [it] is not going to exist anymore.”
A name/location I recognize from the Climate Change debates!


http://www.marklynas.org/2012/04/where-sea-level-rise-isnt-what-it-seems/
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Sorry Admiral, nothing there has changed in the last 20 years.
Edited by kbp, Mar 13 2013, 09:29 AM.
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