Doom: Obama Previews Stern Warning About Climate Change
Threat to Humanity
by Charlie Spiering 20 May 2015
President Obama plans
to warn graduates of the Coast Guard Academy
today that their biggest fears should be about climate change, citing its
specific dangers to national security.
“I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a
serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security,
and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country,”
Obama will say, according to advance speech excerpts published by the
New York Times.
Since the midterm elections, Obama has spent more time
discussing the issue, particularly in the light of national security.
In February 2015, the president argued that the media “absolutely”
overstated the threat of terrorism compared to more long-term
problems such as climate change.
This is also a theme driven by Secretary of State John Kerry,
who frequently refers to climate change as being as great a threat as those
posed by radical Islamic terrorists.
“When I think about the array of global climate – of global
threats – think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction – all challenges that know no borders – the reality
is that climate change
ranks right up there with every single one of them,” he noted gloomily in
February 2014.
Speaking to graduates today, Obama will claim that climate
change will “change the nature of U.S. military missions” predicting widespread
humanitarian problems around the world.
“Climate change, especially rising seas, is a threat to our homeland
security — our economy,
infrastructure, and the safety and health of the American people,” he plans to
say.
Coast Guard
Frances
Fragos Townsend was an assistant commandant for the U.S. Coast Guard, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Note: Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Martin
O'Malley was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore
(MD) mayor, and is the Maryland
state government governor.
Ex-Mayor Martin O'Malley Heckled During Baltimore Riot
Tour (Past Research on the Homeland Security Advisory Council)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
William J. Bratton
is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, the commissioner for the New
York City Police Department, was the police commissioner for Boston (MA), a superintendent for the Boston Metropolitan Police, and the chief
for the Los Angeles (CA) Police
Department.
Elliott B. Broidy
was a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and a commissioner for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System.
Lee
H. Hamilton is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Susan
E. Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
a special assistant to the president for the National Security Council, and is the White House national security
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director of the
Office of Global Issues, director of the Office of Global Issues for the National Security Council, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Climate Reality
Project, and the Center for American
Progress.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
married to Secretary of State John Kerry,
a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, and the vice chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Henry L. Hillman
is a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, and was an early investor in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers was a donor for The Climate Project.
The Climate
Project is a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.
Climate
Reality Project is a merged organization with the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, and a partner at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Sherwood L.
Boehlert is a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and was a trustee at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Larry J.
Schweiger is a trustee at the H. John
Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and a director
at the Climate Reality Project.
Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate Reality
Project, an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, and is a senior
fellow, director for the Center for American
Progress.
Melody
C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center
for American Progress, a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Peter
Ogden is a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, and was a director for climate change &
environmental policy, National Security
staff for the Barack Obama
administration,
Esther M. Olavarria
was a director of immigration policy for the Center for American Progress, and is the deputy assistant secretary
for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
Clark Kent Ervin
was the inspector general for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Frances
Fragos Townsend was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and an assistant commandant for the U.S. Coast Guard.
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