Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate Change as Homeland Security Issue

CNSNews ^ | December 17, 2010 | J. Brady Howell

[jazusamo]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

 

(CNSNews.com) --  At an all-day White House conference on "environmental justice," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.

Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department’s recently created "Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force."

Napolitano explained that the task force was charged with “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.”

According to the former Arizona governor, the task force would address specific questions, including:

“How will FEMA work with state and local partners to plan for increased flooding or wildfire or hurricane activity that is more serious than we’ve seen before? What assistance can the Coast Guard bring to bear to assist remote villages in, for example, Alaska which already have been negatively affected by changes up in the Arctic?”

The findings from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) also asked: “(H)ow can we focus on how climate change is going to affect our rural citizenry including those who live along our boarders both northern and southern?”

Napolitano did not elaborate on the new task force and the Department of Homeland Security has yet to respond to requests by CNSNews.com for additional information on the task force.

The conference did not define “environmental justice,” and the only reference to the task force that can be found is on the DHS Web site. The June 2010 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan states “climate change has the potential to accelerate and intensify extreme weather events which threaten the nation’s sustainability and security.”

This plan also noted: “Many USCG [Coast Guard] and Customs and Border Protection facilities, by their mission, are located in the coastal zone which will be adversely impacted by sea level rise.  Costs will increase for protecting existing facilities from the impacts of sea level rise and some facilities might have to be abandoned in the longer term.”

The all day White House Forum on Environmental Justice also included talks by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

[jazusamo]

Environmental justice?

How about doing the job you're supposed to be doing and help law enforcement and Border Patrol prevent illegal aliens, bandits and drug cartel thugs from killing Americans in our own country!

[jazusamo]

Ping!

[MichaelP]

Huh!

Mike

[jim_trent]

Hey, that’s good. That means she will do NOTHING about it.

[RitaOK]

Oh, my, gosh. Do they ever stop? They never tire.
How can this be?

[SC_Pete]

This is why it is so difficult to write satire abiout the Obama administration: THE TRUTH IS MORE OUTLANDISH THAN THE MOST ACERBIC CRITIC COULD CONJURE UP!!!!!!!

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Insane ... !

[AU72]

January 21, 2013 won’t come soon enough!

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

This plan also noted: “Many USCG [Coast Guard] and Customs and Border Protection facilities, by their mission, are located in the coastal zone which will be adversely impacted by sea level rise. Costs will increase for protecting existing facilities from the impacts of sea level rise and some facilities might have to be abandoned in the longer term.”

Yep. Sure.

[Red_Devil 232]

Was she in Az when she said this? I have a feeling that when she was Gov. of Az she was as completely clueless about the border problem as she is now.

[Da Coyote]

Big sis is a prime example of someone who should have never been near a college...she’s just not got the intelligence.

[BatGuano]

This madness is all based on a false assumption. Nappy is just doing her job trying to help the other frauds in the climate change industry.

One day, I pray, all of these people who have foisted this nonsense upon the WORLD will be brought to REAL JUSTICE.

Who will be first to report that mankind is responsible for Sun Spots?

[Political Junkie Too]

What now? Is illegal weather from other countries sneaking across our borders?

-PJ

[Java4Jay]

Our National Debt will bury us long before the sea waters

[Cheetahcat]

That gender confused butch Idiot fits the rest of the administration to a tee. Christ what is this coming too?

[Redleg Duke]

Know your mission, you dumb bull dyke!

[ArchAngel1983]

”This is why it is so difficult to write satire about the Obama administration:”

LOL . . Ain’t that the truth! These people are living caricatures of themselves.

[Empireoftheatom48]

She should be fired! Unbelievable !!!

[meatloaf]

Too much trouble. Congress needs to stat defunding various programs in DHS. F’em.

[jazusamo]

I believe she was supposed to visit Arizona and meet with some people about the Deputy Sheriff that was just killed but don’t know when.