Climate Change Is A National Security Threat Says Pentagon Chief

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The US Defense Secretary James Mattis has expressed opposing views to President Donald Trump about global warming.

Calling climate change a clear and present threat to national security, his views puts him at odds with many high-ranking officials within the Trump administration.

“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis said in a written testimony provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

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According to his congressional testimony quoted in ProPublica, Mattis said he believed that global warming and climate change were posing a clear and present threat to US national security.

“It is appropriate for the [US military] Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas [affected by global warming such as the new water routes opening in the thawing Arctic] into their planning,” he warned.

The Pentagon chief’s concerns go in stark contrast with the beliefs of President Trump who does not think climate change is a big problem worth any attention.

“I don’t think [climate change] in any major fashion exists … So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again… but I am not a believer [in global warming], and we have much bigger problems,” he said in one interview.

On other occasions, Trump has not only denied climate change, but also referred to it as a plot targeting the US economy.

The president has argued that global warming was “created by and for the Chinese” to attack American industries.

11 Comments

  1. If you truly want to know the “who & why” of weather patterns, chemtrails, doppler radar towers all over the country and more……

    Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvLj_tU8x0

    Its more than likely our Government and our Military….. controlled by the same evil people driving all famine, poverty, pestilence, and eventually genocide and enslavement.

    Bon Apitite!

  2. Mattis spoke clearly, the author may not have listened. He said Global trends in the weather impact conditions and are something his leaders must consider in combat situations. He did not say he believes in the human impact on global warming, just the opposite.

    He is in line with the President and his staff, no gap here beyond that of the vacant space between the author’s ears.

    Donald Trump does not believe in the human influence on weather and believes investing in reductions in global warming may not be effective and are extremely costly when proof of there positive impact has not been proven or demonstrated. It is normal for the earth to warm and cool, it is reflected in its geological history.

    Mattis… good strategy, Trump…. good decisions Author… bad listening skills

    • Thank your, “Dr John”. This website often publishes HEADLINES that are deceiving or at least, misleading. I like this website, but I wish the hell they would learn responsible journalism.

  3. How about Congress taking action to stopping the daily poison Chemtrail spraying of nano particles of metals and other poisons which fall down on us and we are all forced into breathing this shet which our bodies absorbs..

    • I have been watching and following “Chemtrails” since the early 90’s. Children and young adults today have no clue what it is to see a “Normal” blue sky, and “normal” clouds”. Also, there are active dis-info agents still spewing the crap like their handlers are, saying that they are “Contrails”. Well, two jet airliners flying a north-South route less than five miles apart, and several more don’t add up, do not show up on programs like Flight Aware, and in a lot of cases, do not have any outward markings of any airline. I could go on and on, but “Chemtrails” are either accepted or denied by most people. Nothing can be done now to stop them. People just care about their Football and Sitcoms on TV, not caring about getting fat and full of toxins.

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