I saw this speaker give a talk yesterday on "The Climate/National Security Nexus": https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/sherri-goodma… She has an impressive resume (ex-Air Force, former Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Issues, now senior fellow at various think tanks) and her talk gave me hope that the pressure to (finally) respond to climate change will come from the Generals and the Pentagon, and that she and others with serious national security credentials are working on reframing the argument and taking it to the streets (i.e. Red States).
The Pentagon has been Freaking Out about Climate Change as a major worldwide destabilization factor and threat multiplier | since 2004. | Cheney/Bush essentially said "Thanks, you've covered your ass now" and went merrily back to war. During the Obama Interregnum, we took things far more seriously (it's pretty clear that the Arab Spring's trigger was a severe drought in North Africa – the Iraq War being the set up and grain shortages the trigger), but now that a famously incurious and spectacularly unqualified admin is in place all bets are off.
The good news is: most of the domestic localities that are most impacted by climate change are actually taking steps to mitigate its impacts. Norfolk, Virginia, for one, is one of the cities on the Eastern seaboard that is most at risk for sea level rise and storm flooding impacts. There's a bit of a, shall we say, Military Presence in that town.
The kicker is, although local governments are taking action, you won't hear the terms 'Global Warming" or "Climate Change" associated with it, for FOX and AM radio Reasons.
I saw this speaker give a talk yesterday on "The Climate/National Security Nexus": https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/sherri-goodma… She has an impressive resume (ex-Air Force, former Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Issues, now senior fellow at various think tanks) and her talk gave me hope that the pressure to (finally) respond to climate change will come from the Generals and the Pentagon, and that she and others with serious national security credentials are working on reframing the argument and taking it to the streets (i.e. Red States).
Also, twitter: https://twitter.com/goodmansherri
The Pentagon has been Freaking Out about Climate Change as a major worldwide destabilization factor and threat multiplier | since 2004. | Cheney/Bush essentially said "Thanks, you've covered your ass now" and went merrily back to war. During the Obama Interregnum, we took things far more seriously (it's pretty clear that the Arab Spring's trigger was a severe drought in North Africa – the Iraq War being the set up and grain shortages the trigger), but now that a famously incurious and spectacularly unqualified admin is in place all bets are off.
The good news is: most of the domestic localities that are most impacted by climate change are actually taking steps to mitigate its impacts. Norfolk, Virginia, for one, is one of the cities on the Eastern seaboard that is most at risk for sea level rise and storm flooding impacts. There's a bit of a, shall we say, Military Presence in that town.
The kicker is, although local governments are taking action, you won't hear the terms 'Global Warming" or "Climate Change" associated with it, for FOX and AM radio Reasons.
Something about naval bases being under water isn't as funny as it should be.
Oooooooooo. Talk eco to me ,baby.
Lotka–Volterra equations!
Any way we can lower Oklahoma to the elevation of Miami?
Frack the hell out of it?
They're working on it! If earthquakes can make it happen, it will happen!
Thanks for the fix, C_R.
Subsidence ftw!
snert.
It sure as hell isn't The Age of Truth
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whoa, whoa, what's with this "math" stuff?
Don't worry. I just went for the image, have no idea how it was created.