CAMBRIDGE — America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change.
Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, in an interview at a Cambridge hotel Friday after he met with scholars at Harvard and Tufts universities, said significant upheaval related to the warming planet “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.’’
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I suppose the admiral is another one of those liberal nuts spreading panic to cripple the oil industry. I bet he dpesn't even listen to Rush.
The dearth of Right Wing Wacko responses is interesting. Hard for the macho chicken hawks to criticize an active Admiral. Why who knows? Next people would be telling us that John Wayne was a fraud!!!
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I'll play.
The UN IPCC admits that the earth's average temperature has not increased in 16 years. Meanwhile, Al Gore and the other chicken littles are laughing all the way to the bank.
I believe in climate change, it has changed constantly since the beginning of time. It is human folly to believe that we can change the climate by turning our economy into a basket case.
(1)"A larger concern is North Korea, which in recent days has threatened to launch a nuclear weapon against the United States."
"Locklear said North Korea’s military has taken recent steps to visibly increase their levels of readiness” along the demilitarized zone that has separated the two Koreas since the armistice halting the Korean War in 1953. “We are watching very closely what’s going on and we are prepared to defend the alliance as well as our homeland,” he said."
COMMENT ON (1): A statement like this is grossly irresponsible. America has about 20,000 nuclear weapons. The North Korean missle would meet with massive retaliation from America and, quite possibly, the missile could be blasted from the sky by our interceptor missiles. North Korean leaders may seem strange but they are not stupid.
COMENT ON (2): We must stop being the policemen of the world.We can't afford it. Why do we still have 50,000 troops in South Korea. Why is it to our advantage to help South Korea? How would their defeat affect America? Help them, yes, with weapons and training and whatever, but not with 50,000 of our own troops, stationed there since 1953 at tremendous cost to taxpayers and one of the reasons the Republicans seek massive cuts in entitlements. The national treasure is squandered on misguided missions.
At least our armed forces are taking the threat of global warming seriously.