Trump and the Military Are at Odds on Climate Change
Don’t you love a good paradox? Here’s an article in Energy Today that raises an interesting question: How is it possible that the Trump administration dismisses climate change as a hoax, and the U.S. military, which Trump directs as its Commander in Chief, regards it as the single greatest long-term threat to national security?Here’s one possible answer for what it’s worth: Trump is here on a short-term basis, and occupies his position of power largely by virtue of his magnificent capacity to con tens of millions of profoundly ignorant people in assimilating a steady stream of pure bullcrap. (Here’s Trump, telling all those who consider him credible that the polar icecaps are at record levels.) By contrast, our military predates the American Revolution itself, and operates in the real world of scientific fact; it couldn’t care less what a professional liar is capable of causing uneducated people to believe.
Craig,
Cobbling together a lot of old, misquoted, misrepresented or out of contest quotes to keep up the illusion that the military are opposed to President Trump and in agreement with the more extreme climate change advocates is as unhelpful as desperately calling all dissenter or moderates “ignorant”.
The US military obeys it’s constitutional obligations to civilian authority. The military produces strategies and scenario studies in response to requests from the Department of Defence. The Department of Defence will produce or provide those studies if authorized by Congress or the President.
It may surprise you to know the US military has a fully drawn battle plan to deal with a surprise attack by Canada ! Unlikely and far fetched as such an event may be, the US military is still obliged to consider what to do in every contingency.
Just because a Congressional committee asked the US Navy to supply a response plan to massive sea level rises, doesn’t mean the US Navy believes this will occur, but it does mean the Navy must develop a contingency plan in response to a request by Congress.
The US military also has a plan for “alien invasions” , but it doesn’t mean it really expects any ‘close encounters’ in the near future.
Oh, and be careful for what you wish for, when the US military stops worrying about civil authority, that’s when you should start being afraid, very afraid !
Hmm… I’m smelling ad hominem and a Straw Man argument again…