The National Security-Climate Change Nexus
Building on recent concerns, the U.S. Navy is mulling climate change a lot lately. (H/T, The New Security Beat.)
Memo to Romm and other catastrophe-mongers: instead of conflating every major flood or wildfire with global warming, which is not credibly supported by science, why not talk more about the increasing apprehension within the U.S. military and the foreign policy establishment? You’d be on solid ground there.
Additionally, the seriousness they take climate change with respect to national security (and their scenarios) would be a lot harder to dismiss as fear-mongering by the Moranos of the world.
Romm conflating every major flood or wildfire with global warming? What a ridiculous thing to say, even as hyperbole. Be serious.
You could try, e.g., considering the limitations of scientific attribution as applied to a rapidly changing environment.
Steve,
Here’s just a few examples of his posts before the Dakota flood, which, to Romm, of course had a climate change link:
CNN, ABC WashPost, AP, blow Australian wildfire, drought, heatwave “Hell (and high Water) on Earth” story-never mention climate change
NBC News ignores climate change, blows the bark beetle story
The NY Times Blows the Wildfire Story
The NY Times Blows the Drought Story too
USA Today ignores the Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
AP Blows the Extreme Weather story
As I recall Romm had a solid basis for each and every one of those, and they hardly encompass “every major flood or wildfire.”
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