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Pentagon Warns Increase In Terrorism Due To Global Warming
For the past few weeks we have seen stock markets surge as macro-economic data has collapsed around the world. The 'excuse' given for this apparent dichotomy - weather. But now it seems "weather" is to blame for other problems in the world too. As Russia Today reports, in its latest Quadrennial Defense Review, the US Department of Defense (DoD), stressed threats to global stability and American hegemony posed by climate change warning that that an erratic climate will likely cause increased “terrorist activity,” among other impacts..."The pressures caused by climate change will influence resource competition while placing additional burdens on economies, societies, and governance institutions around the world...these effects are threat multipliers."
Like the 2006 and 2010 versions, the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) – a report released every four years on US military strategy and the challenges to its global operations – highlights threats, some more predictable than others, that global climate change will present to human civilization.
"The impacts of climate change may increase the frequency, scale, and complexity of future missions, including defense support to civil authorities, while at the same time undermining the capacity of our domestic installations to support training activities," states the 64-page report, published Tuesday.
"Climate change poses another significant challenge for the United States and the world at large. As greenhouse gas emissions increase, sea levels are rising, average global temperatures are increasing, and severe weather patterns are accelerating."
A warming planet will likely “exacerbate water scarcity and lead to sharp increases in food costs,” the report details, leading to devastated infrastructure and living conditions, especially in poorer regions of the world.
In addition, this fierce “resource competition” will only push the likelihood of additional terror threats, the QDR states.
"The pressures caused by climate change will influence resource competition while placing additional burdens on economies, societies, and governance institutions around the world,” the report continues.
"These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability, and social tensions – conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."
Perhaps more ironically, despite identifying climate change as a global menace and an antagonist to American power, the Defense Department does not address its own unrivaled fuel consumption.
According to the Pentagon’s Defense Energy Support Center, the military spent $3.8 billion in 2009 for 31.3 million barrels, or about 1.3 billion gallons, of oil that was consumed at posts, camps, and overseas bases, TomDispatch’s Nick Turse reported in 2010.
Estimates as to how much oil the US military uses per day varies between about 400,000 barrels per day in "peacetime" to around 800,000 barrels each day during the height of the Iraq war.
Bad economic data, blame the weather! Bad earnings, blame the weather! Bad Social Unrest, blame the weather!
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I'm not understanding the thermometer part, dumb fuck.
Every fucking year the temperatures are hotter, not colder.
Every fucking year.
This is directly measured all over the world and reported globally through various weather TV channels and web sites which aren't affiliated with each other. Any person can go look at their own personal thermometer to confirm local temperatures match what is reported globally by others.
I have confirmed it.
Every fucking year is hotter which means you are either blind or lying.
You're so high on FOX News my cyber terrorist psy-ops comrade?
Thankfully no. There's no Ruppert Murdoch media where I live. What about you mate?
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There hasn't been any warming of the lower troposphere in 17 years.
The scientific temperature models are flawed. Thus the science is flawed.
The Great Lakes are frozen to the second highest level on record. Global warming alarmists claim it is due to climate change causing extreme weather. The highest level of ice was in 1979, when there was no global warmining alarmism and the global temperature was cooler. The polar vortex has nothing to do with climate change. The extreme U.S. winter weather has nothing to do with climate change.
Alarmists said children were supposed to grow up not knowing what snow is. Then NYC got so snowed in that work on the new One World Trade had to stop for months. Ararmists said warming causes more moisture in the atmosphere. The problem with that is i remember blizzards when i was a kid in the 1960's, when it was cooler.
Now alarmists say any extreme weather is due to global warming, because climate change causes extreme weather. The problem with that is that there was extreme weather when i was a kid, in the 1960's, when it was cooler.
Alarmist claims are propaganda, nothing more.
You are a blithering un-educated fool. Keep talking about US events when it is a global event. World-wide, the scientific community is vastly in agreement that man is and has changed what the climate would have been. But, yes, they continue to test, measure and analyze. Because unlike you and your uneducated friends, they are interested in the truth. Warming or cooling doesn't matter...but the truth does.
Remember, to the dominant, consensus position, an increase is due to the theory, and a lack of increase is due to "natural variability"
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/global-warming-pause-climate-...
Like Keynesian economics, the politicized pseudo science of anthropogenic climate change [no longer warming, but "change" of course] essentially indoctrinates its adherents to the position that it can not be "wrong" - any significant variance from earlier predictions is due merely to "variability" instead of being evidence the models are based on faulty premises.
I don't see why you'd want to waste your time arguing with people who are only going to insult your intelligence, and otherwise don't seem to actually know what a good scientific theory actually is.
You're arguing with religious zealots. It's a waste of your time. There is no nuance or doubt to be had in such minds.
You know even less of Climate Science than you do of geopolitics...
And that is quite a feat....
There is no question at all I know more about "geopolitics" than do you. I also seem to have a deeper understanding of research methods and logic.
I've read your remarks on "climate change" and still await something you did not take from sci daily or daily kos. Nothing you've claimed is anything new or original, so please point me to your deep insights on the matter. And perhaps you ought to convince Science or Nature to publish your work.
...
Based on the way I repeatedly exposed you as an unthinking, predictable fraud, your remark here illustrates your remarkable ability to fail to *know* when you are wrong.
I identified you as a cunt quite early, and as a genuinely dumb person shortly thereafter.
Why do you insist on offering further proof of your own intellectual and social short comings? Other than your narcissism and borderline personality disorder?
Hm, didn't Science and Nature already published tons on AGW as in BEING REAL? WTF you talking about?
'Science and Nature' have been publishing 'pop' cultural crap for a decade and better now ...
Pick some other publication which critically challenges any of your cherished 'premises' (of course, you cannot. Or will not, blinded as you are to 'real science' and the practice thereof) rather than those which continue to reflect a narrrow, limited analysis of the 'evidence' available ... see *IF* what you hold to be right, correct and true is able to 'bear up' under closer scrutiny.
If. You. Can.
Tell me of one of those reputable publications which are not "pop" such as Science and Nature then. Do you know that real science requires the scientific method (and that is CLOSER SCRUTINY by many peers) and up til now NO denial publication has passed so far, right? Do you have any evidence on the contrary or are you just blowing steam now?
And BTW, why did you first mentioned Science and Nature as reputable enough not to publish anything of what Flak's talking about, now to discredit them? Ain't that cognitive dissonance?
Incorrect again. Always warming, always change.
No warming: no changes.
The change is from the warming and the warming continues to this very minute.
Yet you can't prove it. I know because I've asked for proof, I'm open to it - but there is nothing like the proof I'd accept as dispositive.
And you're just being dishonest as to the models. Most of the models called for warming that hasn't happened.
If I design a drug that I predict does A, and not only does not, but does A-, I would examine my premises.
But client scientists just apply for another grant to set out to prove what is "known already".
It would be helpful to hear what your proof is, and not ad hominems and a litany of potential evidence that is correlation rich in confounds.
I remain agnostic.
Mate, proof has been posted up in the comments. Haven't you been reading?
Warming that hasn't happened? You surely didn't read all the comments, where you can see real temps compared to models and fitting quite nicely.
Client scientists? Yeah, I know some of them. They work for the Heartland Institute funded by the Cock brothers. Also the Watts guy, to point just a few. So 95% of the scientific community are "client scientists"?
You're not agnostic. You are deeply religious. Because you have performed a huge leap of faith. A leap that discards the scientific method for faith in unscientific bullshit.
The infrared satellite images are on NASA, of course I can prove it. I've got a thermometer so I can measure the temperatures. There's thermometers all over the Earth measure all day every day proving it. Every data proves it.
Everything.
To deny this is to deny the sun even exists, much less gravity.
Precisely these storms & these temperature changes were predicted all the way back to the 1980's. How did you miss it? You wern't born yet, that's how. You weren't alive yet to hear it so you pretend it didn't happen.
You can avoid reality for a while but you can never avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Incorrect. Therometers & infrared satellites have measured warming every single year. 17 years ago? Those temperatures are far colder than today.
"Now alarmists say any extreme weather is due to global warming,"
Incorrect again. The alarm was sounded a full 3 decades ago, predicting this kind of weather, and now it's here. You just weren't born yet then so you have no idea. I was alive then and I remember.
Social uprising from higher food costs & lost territory upon which to live from rising seas is very real but even if it didn't happen, the stupids won't stop breeding babies they know they can't feed. It would happen regardless.
Pentagon has a MIC-agenda to sell.
Some of us are smart enough to understand while the effect is real its removal wouldn't end in another result. We're in a multigenerational cycle of energy collapse combined with uprising against resource shortages that will be blamed on the "leaders" of every nation & territory.
Soil erosion and depletion along with water shortages will have far more to do with food shortages (leaving aside transpo issues) than climate change, and one of my problems with the cc cult is it will insist on solutions that fail to address problems the climate change cult isn't even aware of.
(note that an agnostic position allows for pragmatic agreement in large part, but requires a subtlety of mind people like Flake lack, being binary thinkers and middle-excluders)
Pollution, to include Fuku and frakking, as well as overuse of pesticides and over farming, inter alia, are pushed out of the discussion by armies of ngo and govt funded partisans who can not see anything they don't expect to see.
I'm not sure about na flouride in the water, but some papers II've read suggest it really may be a problem. Hippocampus, dementia, developmental learning..
Sloppily and hastily put before my evening affair, but you're a smart guy, you see, at least partly, what I'm getting at, MDB.
Yeah, all true. Soil erosion, pollution, roundup, atrazine, and many more. Those are all real problems.
But so is AGW. So add one more to the list. Because AGW has and will have a lot to do with water shortages, crop failures, mass extinction, etc... You can't feed 9 billion with a completely unstable climate. A climate in which Homo Sapiens and civilization could have never spawned off from.
And also, add climate refugees and its geopolitcal instability consequences and you get a trifecta for near term extinction.
And now anyone contributing to global warming can be deemed a terrorist... see how this works?
I have been running around the block quite a few times regarding the issue of whether or not one should blame human beings for climate change, and the issue that the events on 9/11/2001, were an inside job, false flag attack, deliberately designed to become self-fulfilling prophesy, to prepare the path for more terrorism, more genocidal wars, and more democidal martial law. Attempting to understand either requires going through level after level after level of different people having different interests which distort the information that they perceive, and/or communicate to others. The only thing that I have found to be consistent is that THE MORE ONE LEARNS, THE WORSE IT GETS!
While most of the publicly promoted "solutions" for greenhouse gases accumulating and driving climate change have ulterior motives, which distorted the ways that those problems were presented, the basic theory about the mechanisms of greenhouse gases changing the climate is still there. While the bankster dominated United Nations is full of every kind of bullshit, on every level, and therefore, their proposed solutions are bullshit, and their approved climate modelling was biased bullshit too, the basic mechanisms are still scientifically sound. Since human civilization was dominated by the people who were the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, the issues of climate change and terrorism are both deeply buried under bullshit. But nevertheless, there is still something there:
THE BASIC POINTS ARE THAT WE ARE ALREADY IN EXPONENTIALLY INCREASING POSITIVE FEEDBACKS REGARDING THE CHANGES IN FUTURE CLIMATE! My conclusions are that things are trillions of times worse than is obvious at first glance. The threat of terrorism was primarily promoted by the ruling classes, in order to advance their overall agenda. The threat of climate change was also primarily promoted by the rulings classes, in order to advance their overall agenda. However, behind the lies about terrorism and climate change promoted by the ruling classes, through the institutions that they dominate, like mass media and puppet politicians, BOTH of those issues have substantial realities which exist, and which are many orders of magnitude worse than what the ruling classes, and their spokespersons, are telling the public.
As always, the primary issue is the nature of exponential growth, which is the central characteristic of everything our kind of civilization has been engaged in. In that context, what the Pentagon has to say about climate change and terrorism is totally trivial compared to what is really happening. In the case of terrorism, the Pentagon has been one of the agents promoting terrorism, while assisting in covering that fact up. In the case of climate change, since the basic mechanisms are on exponential growth curves, and it is already practically and/or politically impossible to stop the positive feedbacks which have engaged in that respect, we are already committed to runaway climate change, picking up speed faster and faster in the foreseeable future, over the next several decades.
Therefore, it is reasonable to expect a corresponding exponential increase in "terrorism." The basic problems are that our entire civilization is based on backing up lies with violence, which enables attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance towards the real consequences of what we are doing. In a society which is dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories, the social successes of those stories are the biggest real problems, which make any genuine solutions practically impossible, since everything that they say about our problems gets systematically distorted by the ways that the biggest bullies' bullshit dominates everything else.
In my opinion, it is plainly obvious that governments are the biggest "terrorists." Therefore, as the mechanisms of climate change kick into gear, due to runaway positive feedbacks, driving those to grow at an exponential rate in the foreseeable future, governments will become exponentially worse terrorists than they already are now. All of the different factors are converging and accumulating, in such ways that the vast majority of the human population will be mass murdered, in one way or another, during the 21st Century. Only a few may survive, in a world which is too different for us to currently imagine what that will be like then.
It is a truism that, despite exponential rates of change being the central feature of human civilizations for millennia, the vast majority of human beings are unable to understand that, and do not want to understand that. As fish do not notice the water, but take it for granted, human beings have been taking for granted that everything they did was on exponential growth curves, which were therefore going to overshoot and collapse into chaos in spectacular ways. Therefore, I REPEAT, our real problems are trillions of times worse than ever before in human history, and headed towards becoming quadrillions of times worse! The worst terrorists are governments, and they are surely going to become much, much worse, as the cumulative, exponentially accelerating effects of climate change, and all the rest of the downsides of industrialization, manifest more and more, faster and faster, during the rest of the 21st Century.
The BIG QUESTIONS are whether or not enough human beings will survive through that enough to eventually adapt sufficiently to progress in science and technology having made them become trillions of times more powerful and capable, but which, so far, primarily ended up making them actually behave in ways which were many orders of magnitude more criminally insane and madly self-destructive, since the history of the resolution of human conflicts resulted in society being almost totally controlled by lies, backed by violence, which systems were amplified to astronomical sizes by breakthrough progress in science and technology, while nothing like that was possible within the realm of political problems.
At present, BOTH the issues of climate change, and terrorism, are DEEPLY BURIED UNDER BULLSHIT, with the biggest bullies being the worst offenders, while the vast majority of people are too deliberately ignorant, and/or too stupid, to possibly change that situation. Therefore, I AGAIN REPEAT, our real problems are many, many orders of magnitude way, way worse than are possible to fully comprehend! At the present time, is it IMPOSSIBLE to imagine how Neolithic Civilization can survive the development of technologies which are trillions of times more powerful, when that civilization is almost totally dominated by legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, doing everything through attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance towards the longer term consequences of what it is really doing.
However, since those tragic trajectories are on exponential growth curves, we are going to find out the answers to those QUESTIONS, faster and faster, as the problems of terrorism and climate change, etc., go through quantum leaps of increasing severity! ... At present, it is impossible to predict whether or not enough human beings will be able to survive through that, to end up with some sort of Translithic Civilization, that could adapt to survive the progress of science and technology driving the industrial revolution, and human population, through the biggest boom and bust, far, far beyond anything that we know about previously happening in human history!