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.

[FourPeas]

You said it. Before skimming the article, I actually looked at the tags at the bottom to see if it is satire.

[midwyf]

So they are going to give everyone heavy coats so we can stay warm in our houses?

[depressed in 06]

Where terrorists are man cause disaster specialists, CEOs at major corporations would qualify as terrorists. Besides, they are easier to catch.

[American Constitutionalist]

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

Forced re indoctrination camps for those who oppose and resist the Climate Change agenda and will be viewed as domestic terrorist.

[BatGuano]

The list of conference attendees does not surprise me.

IT IS A LIST OF THE USUAL SUSPECTS!!! Sibelius, Holder etc.
Wonder where Cass Sunstein was???

[Panzerlied]

Napolitano was born stupid and has honed that talent assiduously.

[LRS]

MR. BEEDLE: (After seeing the mess the ‘experienced’ paperhangers the Stooges made of his apartment) “No. No. No. No. Oh, this is silly. This is silly. It can’t be. It can’t be!”:

MOE: “Oh, yes it is. I said you wouldn’t know the joint.”

A Bird in the Head, The 3 Stooges, 1946

[Mr. K]

I guess that border is secure, so now she has time to do important stuff like this

[tractorman]

The Washington Post

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 88 years ago!

[Will88]

I guess they might as well since Big Sis has the border more secure than it’s ever been, and she’s hot on the trail of all those right wing domestic terrorists and returning vets.

[Lazamataz]

WHISKEY.
TANGO.
FOXTROT.

OVER

[SC_Pete]

These people need to be sent to a commune in the Arizona desert where they can all smoke domestic and imported weeds of various hallucinatory potential. And leave the rest of us the hell alone.

[Matchett-PI]

Good news (I hope) bttt

Sensenbrenner will lead investigation into phony Global Warming BS

Senenbrenner takes number 2 spot on Science Commitee
Tems up with Issa of CA and Broun of Ga

Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1210/Warming_skeptic_gets_key_Science_post.html?showall

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx jazusamo ! Perfect. I 'm sure Big Sis' Cheap Feel-Up Cadre will be every bit as effrctive as curtailing carbon footprints, but only in so far as costing taxpayers their money and their freedom.

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Cheetahcat]

“Forced re indoctrination camps for those who oppose and resist the Climate Change agenda and will be viewed as domestic terrorist.”

Something is up as she is not smart enough to do this on her own.

[Mich Patriot]

HaaaaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Now that’s funny!

[jazusamo]

Thanks...I guess history repeats itself for the idiots also.

[marron]

These people are such an embarrassment.

Still, they are doing what they are told to do. Environmentalism is their tool to take control of the economy, private property, and you. They aren’t going to stop, ever. You can’t reason with people like this; you just have to defeat them and drive them from office.

Nothing they do makes sense if you think they are Americans. They aren’t; they are Sorosians. They have another agenda altogether.

[jazusamo]

Sounds like good news to me! Thanks for the link.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This has got to stop.
The new congresscritters should make damned sure no money is spent on this.