After claiming that climate denial in the US “hurts” American soldiers deployed overseas, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says it’s a “problem” that America’s “uniformed military has been reluctant” to engage in the “fight” against climate change. Whitehouse also says that the Navy is “starting to evaluate their base commanders on how well they communicate the risk of climate change”.
SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: “The problem has been that the uniformed military has been reluctant to put its voice into– or its image into this fight. So, you’ve got the civilians, you’ve got the Quadrennial Defense Reviews, you’ve got the intelligence estimates, you’ve got the statements from our head of CINCPAC back when Admiral Locklear that this was the threat in the Pacific more than any other likely to disrupt things in a way that would disturb American interests. But, it’s hard to put a panel of people in uniform in front of the Environmental and Public Works Committee and say, you know, I’m a general, I’m an Admiral, I’m the head of the Marine Corps, we’re telling you–. What the Navy has done that’s been really interesting, Ray Maybus said he’s starting to actually evaluate his– you know, the military lives by evaluation– they’re starting to evaluate their base commanders on how well they communicate the risk of climate change about the base. So, if you’re the base commander of Norfolk, or of Naval Station Newport, or of– what is it, Cherry Creek Marine Air Station in North Carolina– you are suddenly have on your checklist of what you’re evaluated on how well you’ve communicated what the risk of climate change is. And, for those bases, for Navy bases particularly, it’s a really real risk. They’re on the sea. Sea level rise is going to swamp what they do. It’s really practical. So, when people hear it from as trusted a source as a uniformed military officer it will make a big difference, and they have not been very forward about it from the uniform side of the military. DOD has been good. Mabus has been the best.”
Time to Wake Up
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
June 17, 2016
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The real problem is Senator Whitehouse himself. A quote from Don Quixote might help him understand: “I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.” And what about Windmills?
Is Rhode Island still run by the mob?
A complete jackwagon.
The problem is with idiots like Sen. Whitehouse. We have so many on the left it is depressing.
Good grief, this is a sitting US senator talking about a military post and he gets the name wrong? It’s Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.
Oh, and he still won’t answer the question as to whether he has given up his own use of fossil fuels and made his life carbon neutral. Everyone should ask him again and again and again on Twitter.
With no due respect, Sen Whitehouse is a complete idiot.
The new LGBT military shouldn’t take on anything more than climate change.
Well, they have been busy in every fleabag city in the world lately.
I guess the senator’s strategy would go along with the approach that CAGW is more of a threat than ISIS.
Doesn’t have to make sense…..
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What a loser !!!
This must be his new pet project, More power he receives from this seems to be the objective.
And how exactly, senator, do you expect the military to fight AGW? Conventional or nuclear warfare?
Jeebus our elected officials can say some dumbassed stuff…..