Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change

[rebewranger]

Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change
This administration is lost at sea.
by FRANCIS P. SEMPA
May 29, 2022, 11:12 PM
 

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro just released “Climate Action 2030,” a 32-page report which identifies climate change as an “existential threat” to the U.S. Navy and the nation. In the report’s Foreword, Del Toro writes that climate is “the focal point” for his tenure as Navy Secretary, and notes that both President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin share that view. The Navy Department, Del Toro writes, will be an “environmental leader” that takes “bold climate action.” We have come a long way since Alfred Thayer Mahan, the great sea power strategist and historian, with the full support of Navy Secretary Benjamin Tracy, steered our naval leaders to focus on sea command, strategic chokepoints, and sea lines of communication in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And we have come a long way since Navy Secretaries like James Forrestal contributed to the geopolitical strategy of containment in the late 1940s, and John Lehman and Jim Webb promoted a 600-ship navy and maritime strategy for winning the Cold War.

The Navy Department report establishes two performance goals: to “build climate resilience” and “reduce climate threat.” Del Toro’s stated goal is to have the Navy Department “reduce its greenhouse gas emissions,” “stabilize ecosystems,” and “achieve … net-zero emissions by 2050.” Compare that to the goal of our nation’s most threatening naval adversary — China’s PLA Navy — which is to become the world’s leading naval power by 2049.

The Navy Department report is filled with color photographs of hurricanes, floods, electric vehicles, military families participating in an “oyster castle installation,” naval installations with solar panels, naval officers helping with disaster relief efforts, employees at a naval base planting salt marsh plants, electric-powered amphibious assault ships, and naval officers helping to install “mosquito surveillance and control equipment.” There are no photos of naval warfare, no references to Mahan, no discussion of the challenge posed by the PLA Navy.

https://spectator.org/bidens-navy-secretary-the-existential-threat-is-climate-change/

[rebewranger]

The military should start being honest and stop denying they have gone woke!!

[DefiantMassRINO]

It could also be telling the boss what he wants to hear to get more funding for their new, shiny weapons programs to 'combat climate change' ... and they may also work against the Chi-coms and Russians.

Bureaucrats are only intersted in increasing budget and head count.  They never let a good "cri$i$" go to waste ... even imaginary ones with real money.

[Kamaji]

But not, of course, the CCP.

[240B]

Everything about or related to so called 'climate change' is ALWAYS about the dollar. It is all about money and nothing else.

[Smokin Joe]

Yes, Virginia, the threat IS Climate Change.

Not because it happens, which it has done for 4.6 BILLION years,

But because of the policies being enacted in the insane hubris of those who claim they can do one damned thing to stop it, and the religious fervor with which adherents believe them.

The echoes of this will make the likes of Piltdown Man seem rational by comparison.

[rustynail]

 'The Existential Threat Is'.....hypersonic missiles.

[Fishrrman]

Sumthin' tells me that "Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro" was picked for that position on the basis of his last name above all other factors...

[Free Vulcan]

Sorry Taiwan....

[libertybele]

Dear Carlos:

The 'existential' threat IS Biden and his woke cronies like you.