Posted on 07/31/2015 7:17:33 AM PDT by GoneSalt
Having spent more than 30 years in the US Marine Corps, I know what constitutes a national security threat. Climate change, caused in large part by the carbon pollution we dump into our air, presents risks to the safety of both our nation and our world at large. The threats of climate change include extreme weather, rising sea levels, reduced military capacity, and conditions that can enable worldwide violence and perpetuate terrorism.
To address this challenge, we’ll need to both prepare for the effects of climate change and reduce the pollution that is causing it. As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean Power Plan proposal is set to be finalized shortly, our country has an unprecedented opportunity to protect itself from the national security threats imposed on us by climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
< I guess we should believe the Brig Gen because he says so.
Because he sure didn’t rely on facts to back up his premise.
That’s what leftists do. Choose someone with a impressive title to chant their agenda. It doesn’t matter if he really knows what he’s talking about or actually studied the facts of the situation. They just need a talking head; one that gives the appearance that he knows what he’s talking about so the other leftist sheeple will fall right inline and march with them nit even knowing what they are marching for really. Naive lefties are so easy to control. Tell them a lie. Tell them what they want to hear. Then tell them to polarize their enemies amd shout over them because they know what’s best for everyone else.
Here is a little factoid.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=425004547640&dt=1&ds=13
Looks to me that the temperature trend at this station is negative (going down).
NO dog for this marine.
An inconvenient truth.
This definition is so ambiguous so as to be meaningless. What do they mean by 'air'? Air could be said to contain CO2 naturally.
The definition is so meaningless that they could define rain as a pollutant.
The desk jockey speaks.
Highlights of his military career include tours as Deputy Executive Secretary to Defense Secretaries Cheney and Aspin; ground plans officer for Drug Enforcement Policy in the Pentagon; liaison to the Congressional Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces; and Inspector General of the Marine Corps.
This is how you earn 4 stars in the new military. You’ll get a fifth if you’re also transgender.
Isn’t the percentage of CO2 in the air about 0.039, about 4 one hundreths of one percent? And man accounts for about 5% of the 4 one hundreths of 1 percent?????
“Having spent more than 30 years in the US Marine Corps, I know what constitutes a national security threat.”
A scam artist. Artillery and commanding Parris island doesn’t make his opinion of climate any better than the average guy you meet on the street.
Now he is trading on the good name of the Corps to advance his business where he is the CEO of some think tank. Wants to keep his mouth firmly clamped to the government teat.
“The general did not write this speech. He was given the text by some publicity aide, and he read what was written. The language does not sound like it comes from a Marine general. Cheney probably either owes someone a favor or was given some bonus to read this claptrap. He most likely has no idea what so-called “climate change” is about nor cares.”
Becoming a General at any time in the last 20 years, does not speak well for an individual.
http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html
Tell me where a man gets his corn pone, and ill tell you his opinions.
Mark Twain.
The only climate change we are going to see and feel is when iran starts sending nukes where ever they want.
If he’ll quit exhaling...
As for smog/ozone it can be a problem when there is no wind such as LA basin and Central Valley. Or in the Valley of the Sun(AZ). Any place where the wind doesn't blow.
Clinton lowered ozone std to 80 ppm. When Bush was prez the science advisory committee said to lower the std down to 60-70 ppm but he lowered only to 75 ppm. Obama was supposed to lower it but never has, even though he was sued and lost. He'll eventually do it so it won't be hanging over Prez Hillary's head.
So, be sure and get your tailpipe tested.
The fear of 'climate change' is the problem - because NOTHING is happening with the real climate...
To BRIG GEN Stephen Cheney I say, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself..."
That was debated in Congress and it was agreed that Congress would preempt EPA with a cap and trade program in 2009-10 but that failed so Obama move forward with his first CO2 regs, but they applied only to new permits/new plants.
That set off a bunch of law suits by many, many plaintiffs, which were combined and known as Utility Air Regulatory Group v EPA. As you link shows, the DC Court of appeals ruled for Obama/EPA in 2012. The plaintiffs would appeal that to SCOTUS in 2013 and in June 2014 SCOTUS ruled for Obama/EPA.
About that same time, June 2014, Obama would release his second set of CO2 regs(draft regs) except these apply to existing permits/existing plants. This is known as the Clean Power Plan, mentioned in the article above.
The comment period on this is over and Obama/EPA is supposed to issue the final rule in August, after which many lawsuits will be filed. It will have to go back to SCOTUS, but in the meantime, it will be implemented.
“that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
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