...Of interesting note is that the masterminds of this dramatic taxpayer-funded probe admit that “the study itself did not involve original research on the nature or magnitude of climate change.” Rather the acclaimed scholars and military personnel assume, based on what they claim is a preponderance of evidence available, that significant changes in climate change have already occurred and are likely to worsen in the years ahead. “This report accepts as a core assumption the reality of climate change and climate-change related global warming,” the authors write. “Regardless of the science behind climatological projections of global warming, climate change is a controversial political issue. For the purposes of this study, we ignore that controversy.”...
***************************************************
These idiots forgot (or, more likely, never learned) one of the axioms of military common sense... “Assumption is the mother of all screw ups”. I cleaned the language of this axiom up a bit before posting.