Quote:(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said that climate change is a “primary” national security threat to the United States.

“The Pentagon has already said that climate change is a primary national security threat that we’re going to face, and we are working with the Department of Defense to start preparing for that and mitigating for that,” Obama said. “And a lot of our international policy and national security policy is centered around the very real concerns that that’s going to raise.”

In the same presentation, Obama said that the planet is warming and that this is having an impact on human health.

(04-10-2015 10:01 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

Really? Climate Change is more important than any other national security threat we face?

(04-10-2015 10:03 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Environment concerns are very important to every single society.

It is not a primary national security threat. There is no need to call a fox a chicken - they have nothing to do with each other.

Obama does this a lot.

(04-10-2015 10:34 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:03 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Environment concerns are very important to every single society.

It is not a primary national security threat. There is no need to call a fox a chicken - they have nothing to do with each other.

Obama does this a lot.

Our environment is pretty good, has come a long way in 50 years. Most US cities don't even deal with smog anymore.

(04-10-2015 10:44 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The same president that said global warming touched his life because the warmer temperatures and pollution caused his 4 year old daughters asthma while failing to mention he smoked and she was exposed to second hand smoke.

Please tell me how mother nature is going to pose a threat to our national security?

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:44 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The same president that said global warming touched his life because the warmer temperatures and pollution caused his 4 year old daughters asthma while failing to mention he smoked and she was exposed to second hand smoke.

Please tell me how mother nature is going to pose a threat to our national security?

Expand your horizons man...

National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliament(s), should protect the state and its citizens against all kinds of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on.

Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

Quote:Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

(04-10-2015 10:34 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:03 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Environment concerns are very important to every single society.

It is not a primary national security threat. There is no need to call a fox a chicken - they have nothing to do with each other.

Obama does this a lot.

Our environment is pretty good, has come a long way in 50 years. Most US cities don't even deal with smog anymore.

(04-10-2015 11:18 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:44 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The same president that said global warming touched his life because the warmer temperatures and pollution caused his 4 year old daughters asthma while failing to mention he smoked and she was exposed to second hand smoke.

Please tell me how mother nature is going to pose a threat to our national security?

Expand your horizons man...

National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliament(s), should protect the state and its citizens against all kinds of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on.

Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

Fail to see mother nature listed there. How about we let the scientists figure this out and let the government focus on national security threats posed by other nations like those examples in your discussion. I'm a lot more worried about our national security as it relates to other countries than natural processes like weather.

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

(04-10-2015 12:09 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

So is a martian invasion. Both are fictional.

Here are non-fictional crises:

AIDS, spread by unfettered homosexuality, costing billions
Unchecked immigration
Poor scholastic performance by students in public schools and universities

(04-10-2015 11:59 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:18 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:44 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The same president that said global warming touched his life because the warmer temperatures and pollution caused his 4 year old daughters asthma while failing to mention he smoked and she was exposed to second hand smoke.

Please tell me how mother nature is going to pose a threat to our national security?

Expand your horizons man...

National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliament(s), should protect the state and its citizens against all kinds of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on.

Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

Fail to see mother nature listed there. How about we let the scientists figure this out and let the government focus on national security threats posed by other nations like those examples in your discussion. I'm a lot more worried about our national security as it relates to other countries than natural processes like weather.

I'm afraid your reading comprehension might need some brushing up.

(04-10-2015 12:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 12:09 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

So is a martian invasion. Both are fictional.

Here are non-fictional crises:

AIDS, spread by unfettered homosexuality, costing billions
Unchecked immigration
Poor scholastic performance by students in public schools and universities

Using that "logic", Armageddon and the rapture are also fictional.

(04-10-2015 12:42 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 12:09 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

So is a martian invasion. Both are fictional.

Here are non-fictional crises:

AIDS, spread by unfettered homosexuality, costing billions
Unchecked immigration
Poor scholastic performance by students in public schools and universities

Using that "logic", Armageddon and the rapture are also fictional.

(04-10-2015 03:25 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:59 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:18 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 11:11 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-10-2015 10:44 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  The same president that said global warming touched his life because the warmer temperatures and pollution caused his 4 year old daughters asthma while failing to mention he smoked and she was exposed to second hand smoke.

Please tell me how mother nature is going to pose a threat to our national security?

Expand your horizons man...

National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliament(s), should protect the state and its citizens against all kinds of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on.

Most of the eastern seaboard and southern Florida being covered under rising sea water is sort of a crisis.

Fail to see mother nature listed there. How about we let the scientists figure this out and let the government focus on national security threats posed by other nations like those examples in your discussion. I'm a lot more worried about our national security as it relates to other countries than natural processes like weather.

I'm afraid your reading comprehension might need some brushing up.

Not at all. I see a long list of geo-political issues that fall under National Security, but none of natural causes. If you want to expound on the idea and include environmental issues, you would probably have to go as far as to say the environmental issue at hand was deliberately caused by another nation to cause the US harm through agricultural output of force the elimination of an industry like commercial fishing through poisoning of the waters.

Natural acts or non-intentional weather doesn't appear to fall under the blanket of National Security for most people.