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Climate change is one of Australia's biggest national security risks
Business Insider ^ | May 18, 2018 | by Rosie Perper

Posted on 05/18/2018 7:17:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change poses a "current and existential national security risk" to Australia, according to a Senate inquiry report released Thursday.

The report, compiled by the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade References Committee, reviewed the implications of climate change on Australia's national security and the insights are startling.

Sherri Goodman, a climate security expert and a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the Clinton administration, told the committee that climate change poses a "direct threat to the national security of Australia," and also creates a "global existential risk."

"We know that the storms that you've been experiencing in your part of the world [Australia] now are also attributable, in part, to accelerated climate risks. The problem also is not a distant one in the future but it's now," Goodman said.

Goodman also told the committee that climate change is a "threat multiplier" and aggravates existing security challenges.

Government and defense officials told the committee that security challenges, including geopolitical, socioeconomic, water, energy, food and health challenges could increase the potential for conflict. Australia's former defense force chief Admiral Chris Barrie submitted his assessment to the committee, predicting that of all seven continents, Australia is most likely to be harmed by the effects of climate change.

Climate change has been priority for Australia, as it among the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the developed world.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 05/18/2018 7:17:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope, for N reasons where N is an increasingly large number.
NASA just admitted that the last two years showed a roughly 0.5 degree C temp drop.

Try again, libs.

Always remember that math is NOT your friend.


2 posted on 05/18/2018 7:19:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not kangaroos or crocs? They’re probably more of a threat.


3 posted on 05/18/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The report, compiled by the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade References Committee, reviewed the implications of climate change on Australia’s national security and the insights are startling.

...

Startling. Not truthful, but startling.


4 posted on 05/18/2018 7:22:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Actually, fake science is Audtralia’s greatest security risck.


5 posted on 05/18/2018 7:23:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gotta hand it to these frauds; they’re consistent with their talking points even though there is major backtracking going on right now on predictions of how much impact CO2 actually has in warming.


6 posted on 05/18/2018 7:23:35 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Given Oz’s vast deserts, any change just might be an improvement!


7 posted on 05/18/2018 7:24:05 AM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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Yeah right. Australia, that has had a drought for the last billion years. What storms? Queensland had 1 storm that was of note but the rest of the Land Down Under is still lacking sufficient rainfall to sustain itself. A dust storm ravaged Charlesville. They would love to have some of this rain that “Climate Change” is supposed to have brought about.


8 posted on 05/18/2018 7:24:14 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like they are suffering from Democratitis.


9 posted on 05/18/2018 7:25:50 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After months of incessant “Trump Russia Stormy Trump”, an occasional Climate Change Apocalypse story does break the monotony.


10 posted on 05/18/2018 7:26:17 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

security challenges, including geopolitical, socioeconomic, water, energy, food and health challenges could increase the potential for conflict.

Yes, they “could”, then again maybe not...


11 posted on 05/18/2018 7:27:06 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Go back to sleep Aussies. We'll save you, just like we did at Guadalcanal.

If you had a Marine Division and a credible navy, you could have done it yourselves.

If.

12 posted on 05/18/2018 7:28:30 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The only threat is Libs and Commies pushing the Climate Change narrative.

13 posted on 05/18/2018 7:36:37 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone tap these Final Solution types on the shoulder and tell them air moves freely across national borders.


14 posted on 05/18/2018 7:44:06 AM PDT by relictele
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Dear Aussies:

Just.

Stop.

It.

..............

Now.


15 posted on 05/18/2018 7:45:33 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The biggest national security risk is that people think climate change is the biggest security risk.


16 posted on 05/18/2018 7:57:36 AM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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Climate change is one of Australia's biggest national security risks

Yes it is. A con job like that can cost them billions of dollars and much freedom if they are so stupid to believe it.

17 posted on 05/18/2018 8:00:05 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Naaa...Red China isn’t a threat at all. LOL!! Suckers!


18 posted on 05/18/2018 8:01:20 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

God help us if our Military Industrial Complex signs on for the new revenue stream. What they want, they get.


19 posted on 05/18/2018 8:22:25 AM PDT by Wolfie
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I’m sure glad there are no volcanoes spewing polution into the atmosphere. /sarc.


20 posted on 05/18/2018 8:22:45 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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