US Navy Sinks Obama’s Climate Change Task Force

If the sea level does rise, it will be because of all the liberal tears.

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"The US Navy has announced that it is jettisoning the Obama-era Climate Change Task Force.

The US Navy quietly shuttered a task force created under former President Barack Obama to prepare the military branch for the impact of global warming, reportedly saying the team was “no longer needed”.

Its ending, which happened in March and was first reported on Tuesday by the environmental site E&E News, reflects a trend under Donald Trump in which federal agencies have shuttered operations designed to combat climate change nationwide and around the world.

"Created in 2009, group was tasked with researching methods to adapt to security challenges caused by climate change.

"It appears that the Navy didn’t pursue climate change policies as robustly as progressives in the Obama administration initially envisioned.

But the sense of urgency that flowed through the reports between 2010 and 2019 neither buoyed the Navy’s climate change group nor sparked major reforms across the armed forces.

Retired Rear Adm. Jon White, who spearheaded Task Force Climate Change from 2012 to 2015, told E&E News that he saw “little evidence” that the research undertaken by the Navy and scientific community has even been implemented in any of the military’s environmental strategies.

“Across all of the Department of Defense, it is hard for me to see that climate change is taken as seriously as it should be,” said White, now the president of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.

“The task force ended, in my opinion, without full incorporation of climate change

"I suspect the non-politically motivated service men and women in our Navy has other priorities, such as new technology that can be used against adversaries." . . .