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.

[LurkedLongEnough]

There are all kinds of ways to get back at those hideous rich people now that they have a temporary tax break.

[onedoug]

God, please save us from these freaks.

[wheresmyusa]

Eco-Crime.....the new terrorism.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2636192/posts

[Rebelbase]

DHS will become the EPA’s climate change enforcement arm.

Backyard BBQ in a verbotton zone? Prepare for a DHS SWAT raid.

Woodstove secretly being used at night in San Fran? Prepare for a DHS SWAT raid.

Too many burping and farting cows in one pasture? Prepare for a DHS SWAT raid.

Etc, etc, ad nauseum...

[upchuck]

The list of conference attendees does not surprise me.

Me neither. They could have even had Van Jones as a "special guest speaker." LOL.

[jazusamo]

There’s no doubt you’re right. They are blatant about it and don’t give a whit who objects and as long as we have the turkey in the WH we do it will not change.

It would be nice to see the House start defunding some of these idiot appointees realms of Zer0’s and then vote him and a lot more Dems out in 2012.

[upchuck]

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

Typical DHS bullshit. Fighting something that doesn't exist. Do something useful for a change. Go profile a Moslem will ya?

[Marathoner]

God, please save us from these freaks.

AMEN to that! I swear, I just cannot enjoy the Christmas season with these idiots running around threatening our lives and liberties day after day.

[The Duke]

Nuts.

[jazusamo]

If anyone would have said that 25 or more years ago they would have been considered insane, not so now. The insane ones are now running our government.

[jazusamo]

Exactly! They can’t profile a Moslem or illegal alien murderer or child molester though because it might hurt their or their groups feelings. Grrrrrrr

[Borax Queen]

She put cameras up on all the highways to monitor we the innocent AZ people, but did nothing but encourage the illegals to invade. Luckily, her spy cams came down when she left, but our gain is the nation’s loss :(((

[rollo tomasi]

Does this mean that the Federal Government believes God is a terrorist threat?

[NormsRevenge]

It’d be nice if they concentrated on their core mission.. is that too much to ask?

what a sad commentary on this nation’s governance.

[Borax Queen]

It sounds like a cheesy, SciFi disaster movie!!

[silverleaf]

Does your neighbor leave his porch light on all night?
Does he fail to recycle?
Are his windows closed in the summer?
Does he water his lawn in the middle of the day?

If you see something- SAY SOMETHING.

Big Sis

[Presbyterian Reporter]

The sad part of this story is that these whack-jobs are serious about being concerned this fictious climate change garbage will impact their work environment.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks jazusamo.

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[Freddd]

Oh that’s why the congressional climate change committee broke up, because Incompetano took it over, thereby bypassing congress....

Feel the communist fist tightening?

[sport]

At first glance, this is good news for us then because every battle theDHS has fought, they have lost.

Upon further review, the only enemy the DHS recognizes is the American people, not the parasites, and obama disciples, but, Americans who remember what a Great and Proud Nation we once were before the termites infilterated and spread theur cancer, this news may not be that good.