President Biden warned military servicemembers Wednesday that top Pentagon officials consider climate change to be the “greatest threat” to America’s national security in the coming years.
“When I went over to the tank in the Pentagon when I was first was elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down and let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats,” he said.
“This is not a joke. You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest physical threat facing America was? Global warming.”
“There will be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia, because of the fights over what is arable land anymore,” he added.
Biden issued the warning during a speech to Air Force personnel stationed in the United Kingdom. The president will participate in meetings with G-7 and NATO leaders this month during his first overseas trip since entering the White House.
He made the declaration amid pressure from Republican lawmakers regarding his policy toward Russia in the wake of ransomware attacks that targeted key U.S. infrastructure, including his administration’s decision to waive sanctions on the Russia-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
The president said he would speak to key European allies about a unified approach to combating climate change, which he has identified as a priority for his administration.
“We must all commit to an ambitious climate action if we’re going to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and lead the global transition in clean energy technology,” Biden said.
The U.S. formally rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement in February following Biden’s day-one executive order. The order reversed a Trump-era decision to withdraw from the accord.
Biden has suggested that climate change poses a threat to U.S. military security on multiple occasions. In February, he noted that he had directed the Pentagon to reimagine the country’s strategy for dealing with the impact of climate change.
At the time, Biden said global warming was “already costing us billions in impacts on our bases and our national security.”
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According to the IPCC extreme weather events are not becoming more common and other studies have shown that hurricanes are not becoming more intense. Remember that we had a 10 year “hurricane drought” where not a singe hurricane over category three made land fall in the US. As Chaamjamal’s link points out, one of the reasons there was more damage from Hurricane Katrina was that the local officials were involved in corruption with the funds to improve the levies. I remember reading that they were being indicted the day Katrina struck.
Fossil fuels have nothing to do with our weather its just we have a whole lot of loose nuts from the Greens running loose
Hurricane Katrina was the proof of how fossil fuel emissions are destroying the world, how fossil fuel emissions are racist, and why we must take climate action and move to new energy technologies that are so bad that they need fear based activism to sell.
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It is interesting that Biden is declaring climate change to be our greatest threat. Very recently congress declared right wing extremist to be the greatest threat to this county. This was despite the fact that far right has not committed arson, assaulted police officers with deadly force, or terrorized motorists on the freeway in Portland with AK 47’s as radical left has done. I wonder how many “greatest threats” the Biden administration will declare.
The biggist threats to American Security is the United Nations the Democrat Party and Himself so quit pulling the wool over our eyes
The DC Swamp along with thugs like joey are the greatest threat to humanity. you can also add big pharma to that group. And also the medical establishment embellished with it’s own self serving importance which destroys more lives than it saves.