Posted on Mar 23, 2015
Is Global Warming an immediate threat to national security?
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Climate change will affect the Department of Defense's ability to defend the Nation and poses immediate risks to U.S. national security.
http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/index.shtml
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What about solar flares? The sun plays a big part in weather. Is there a measure of solar activity that can be correlated to temperature change?
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I recall the commercials of the 1970's in which a flower draped woman would make thunder and lighting and would always say It not nice to Mess with Mother Nature" that hold more truth today. Nature can't be politicize.
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There hasn't been any global warming in 18 years. Actually the earth is cooling. The ice caps are 65% larger now than they were when Al Gore brought it to our attention. (By the way, he owns numerous houses over 10,000 sq ft plus yachts so he isn't exactly curbing his own carbon footprint). Is there climate change? Of course there is. The climate is always changing but not because of us. The earth has had numerous ice ages and then warming which had nothing to do with burning fossil fuels or cavemen having barbecues and driving SUVs. This is a ploy by the government to usurp authority and waste more money.
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Until large scale desalination projects become a reality climate change is going to have a hell of a role in the US, specifically the continental south west, when they start running out of water. If people think an entire region of the U.S. losing access to drinking water isn't a national security issue then I don't know what to tell them, and that's only one small aspect of this much larger overall issue.
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SPC Nathan Freeman, I read the article and thanks for sharing it. A few thoughts. First, my immediate take away is that I just got done reading a whole lot of conservative "I told you so." It may or may not be founded in truth, but it reads incredibly biased. Second, it seems to state quite clearly that climate change is happening in California, it's just that the degree of the effects could have been lessened given certain infrastructure projects had been completed in a timely manner with potential for their own ecological damage.
Finally, California is not the end all and be all of the south west. Aquafers have a large role in this discussion as rivers are not the only source of water, and they're being drained faster than they can replenish. Large areas of the south west rely on aquafers for their potable water, and we need to start thinking long term about how to manage this impending crisis. I encourage you to read over the attached link and reply with your thoughts.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR017351/full
Finally, California is not the end all and be all of the south west. Aquafers have a large role in this discussion as rivers are not the only source of water, and they're being drained faster than they can replenish. Large areas of the south west rely on aquafers for their potable water, and we need to start thinking long term about how to manage this impending crisis. I encourage you to read over the attached link and reply with your thoughts.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR017351/full
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SPC Nathan Freeman
I read the paper. The amazing thing about nature in general is it's self preservation feature. People, in particular, tend to go where the water is. Most cities are built near a body of water. In the northeast, there is an abundance of water. Record snowfalls over the past few years and a random hurricane have flooded Vermont repeatedly. Perhaps some people need to move away from California and find greener pastures. That's what people with common sense used to do before they began relying on the government. I was reading in a text book that the North Pole moves 3 kilometers per year (toward our east) which might explain part of why California is getting warmer. It is essentially getting closer to the equator. Meanwhile, here in North Carolina, snowfall is starting to become a regular phenomenon. Perhaps the pole shifting has more to do with the weather than just having too many green lawns. SGT (Join to see) it would also help if the tree huggers would let California build desalinization plants.
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SPC Nathan Freeman
It would also help if California would stop letting in illegal immigrants. That would be a million fewer people using water. SGT (Join to see)
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Absolutely! Water shortages driven by what I'd call climate change is an issue the U.S. and the world is going to have to face soon. Invest in desalinization technology!
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Thank you for posting this, I found it very informative. I hope that with insight like this we are able to set up mitigation measures around areas of higher risk. The other concern that is behind the scenes here is the downsize of our active component tasked with other GRF missions if a natural disaster does occur here at home, like Hurricane Katrina.
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We are you mitigating? If you are moving to higher ground and that is mitigation.
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SGT Nia Chiaraluce
Mitigation in the context of projected or anticipated impact or detriment. So, if Groton Naval Base in Connecticut has a high chance of being hit by a hurricane that foresight allows us to "bunker down" the same way we tie down aircraft here at Bragg during tornado season. My only concern is personell strength if another Katrina happens in one state while another state is equally impacted complied by GRF missions.
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