OMG: House Directs Pentagon To Ignore Climate Change

[hlthe2b]

WASHINGTON -- The House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill on Thursday that would bar the Department of Defense from using funds to assess climate change and its implications for national security.

The amendment, from Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), passed in what was nearly a party-line vote. Four Democrats voted for the amendment, and three Republicans voted against it. The bill aims to block the DOD from taking any significant action related to climate change or its potential consequences. It reads:

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation's Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.
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Research suggests, however, that the Department of Defense has a number of reasons to be worried about climate change. The department said in its own evaluation last year that climate change presents infrastructure challenges at home and abroad. Meanwhile, a March Pentagon report found that climate change impacts are "threat multipliers," and that the rapid rise of global temperatures and associated extreme weather events could exacerbate issues like "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions -- conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/pentagon-climate-change_n_5382067.html

How do we even begin to deal with THESE people?

[applegrove]

1. Legislating their bullshit narrative. It was only a matter of time before they did.

[billhicks76]

20. Traitors?

If I hear another friends crazy right wing uncle or aunt call liberals traitors I'm going to start doing something about it. These people sicken me and more energy needs to be dedicated to figuring out how they got so brainwashed. It can't just be racism although it's a main component for many. I wish we had called out Bush and Cheney on 911 because it would've shut these people up forever.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. When the time comes McKinley will be held responsible

2014 elections are VERY important to get these Repub thugs out

[Downwinder]

3. For one thing, with sea level rise the Navy is going to have

to do some planning on harbor space.

[former9thward]

16. The sea level rise will happen from 200 years to 1000 years.

I don't think the Navy has to worry about that.

[happyslug]

21. Not if the West Antarctica Ice Sheet breaks

If the West Antarctica Ice Sheet breaks, world wide sea level can go up 20 feet overnight. Worse the can occur any March of any year. March is where the surrounding ice shelves are at they smallest, for that is the southern start of autumn. The West Antarctica Ice Sheet is not called the Godzilla of global warming for nothing.

[airplaneman]

26. you really think we have a lot of time?

http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/

-Airplane

[former9thward]

28. Yes I do.

If the whole glacier system melts, Joughin says, it would raise global sea levels about 24 inches (60 centimeters), he adds. The process will take a while, roughly 200 to 900 years, Joughin and colleagues estimate, depending on how fast temperatures rise and how much snow falls in the area.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140512-thwaites-glacier-melting-collapse-west-antarctica-ice-warming/

I know it is popular to think it is around the corner but it is not. We and our children will all be long dead by the time it happens.

[AnnieBW]

18. It's already happening at Norfolk

It's already happening to Norfolk, home of our large Naval base.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/17/sea-level-rise-swamps-norfolk-us-coasts/3893825/

[pansypoo53219]

4. that really worked for the romans too.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. The GOPee is totally out-of-control NUTS!

And yet, some DEMS <<STILL>> want to find "common ground" with these PSYCHOS!

[mfcorey1]

6. Enough is enough!!! Commit all of them including the dems who went along with

this idiocy! Can you imagine these idiots in charge of the country? We are all doomed!!!

[840high]

7. We vote them out - that's how

we deal with them.

[Kablooie]

9. We have no say in the matter. The GOP has the house locked up until at least 2020.

They gerrymandered so strongly that Dems will not be able to become a house majority for the next 6 years minimum.

Voting is becoming a useless tool.

[Iliyah]

13. Not if the their voters vote them out.

[octoberlib]

8. I'd like to know who those 4 Democrats were that voted

for this piece of crap.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. So they are blocked from taking "significant action." At least they can plan.

I think this is just a lot of smoke being blown. The stupid still burns but not that much harm done.

[former9thward]

17. No one is blocked from anything at this point.

It has to pass the Senate and be signed by Obama.

[Recursion]

25. The Pentagon is good at ignoring what Congress wants done with money

Normally that's not a good thing, but in this case...

[Shandris]

11. If they were so confident that there was no climate change, wouldn't they...

...WANT to see it studied, verified, and proven to shut us up once and for all?

Methinks they doth protesteth too much.

[Iliyah]

14. Sane people would.

[Cha]

12. We Fight them at the pols and before.. thank you for exposing this, hlthe

[Iliyah]

15. Thanks Cha

Seems like some remain to keep with the white flag flowing.

[glinda]

19. Seriously....we cannot put up with this any longer!

[dsharp88]

22. I suppose they also directed NASA to ignore gravity.

It sure makes it easier to launch rockets that way.

[BadgerKid]

23. Flat-Earthers would've pulled NASA funding.

Can't risk learning any facts that detract from the imposed myth!

[eShirl]

24. uhhhhhh

[G_j]

27. The Pentagon considers climate change a major national security issue.

correct?