Pentagon tries to convince Trump climate change is real and a concern
...The Trump administration's campaign to suppress information about climate change
is widely known (while researching for this article I continually found links
which a few years ago led to government documents about climate change but now
redirected me to error messages and blank pages), but what may come as a
surprise to many readers is the forceful pushback this administration has
received from the Pentagon. Just a few months before the House Intelligence
Hearing, fifty-eight former US military and national security officials signed a
letter to the President imploring him to recognize the grave "threat to US
national security" posed by climate change. "It is dangerous to have national
security analysis conform to politics," reads the letter endorsed by military
generals, intelligence experts, and chiefs of staff whose tenures stretch across
the past four administrations, "climate change is real, it is happening now, it
is driven by humans, and it is accelerating."
In just the past three years, countless senior officials from the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DOD) have voiced growing concerns about the security implications of a changing climate, including former Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats, Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Bill Moran, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, General David L. Goldfein, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Stephen Wilson, Army Vice Chief of Staff, General James McConville, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, General Joseph Lengyel, Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Robert Neller, Secretary of the Air Force, Heather A. Wilson, and Commander of United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti. In Schoonover's Op-Ed for the New York Times, he explained the Pentagon's widespread concern: "Two words that national security professionals abhor are uncertainty and surprise, and there's no question that the changing climate promises ample amounts of both." ...
In just the past three years, countless senior officials from the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DOD) have voiced growing concerns about the security implications of a changing climate, including former Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats, Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Bill Moran, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, General David L. Goldfein, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Stephen Wilson, Army Vice Chief of Staff, General James McConville, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, General Joseph Lengyel, Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Robert Neller, Secretary of the Air Force, Heather A. Wilson, and Commander of United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti. In Schoonover's Op-Ed for the New York Times, he explained the Pentagon's widespread concern: "Two words that national security professionals abhor are uncertainty and surprise, and there's no question that the changing climate promises ample amounts of both." ...
Nathan Albright lives and works at Maryhouse Catholic Worker in New York,
and co-edits "The Flood," www.thefloodmag.com.
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