{"id":111319,"date":"2021-03-12T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=111319"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:08:19","slug":"dod-climate-change-essential-element-of-foreign-policy-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=111319","title":{"rendered":"DOD: Climate Change \u2018Essential Element\u2019 of Foreign Policy, National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Breitbart is reporting<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday it is assembling a \u201cclimate working group\u201d following President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday the secretary established the Department of Defense climate working group to support Executive Order 14008, which identified climate considerations as an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security,\u201d Pentagon Press Secretary Mike Kirby said at a briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Joe Bryan, special assistant to the secretary for climate, will be the working group chair,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cThe climate working group will be the primary form to do a couple of things. One, to coordinate department responses to the executive order and subsequent climate- and energy-related directives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd two, track the implementation of actions and progress against future goals,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to post the establishment memo on defense.gov.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tech Crunch reported more details about the new working group:<\/p>\n

Bryan, who previously served as deputy assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Energy under the Obama administration, will oversee a group intended to coordinate the Department\u2019s responses to Biden\u2019s recent executive order and subsequent climate and energy-related directives and track implementation of climate and energy-related actions and progress, according to a statement.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense controls the purse strings for hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending and is a huge consumer of electricity, oil and gas, and industrial materials. Any steps it takes to improve the efficiency of its supply chain, reduce the emissions profile of its fleet of vehicles, and use renewable energy to power operations could make a huge contribution to the commercialization of renewable and sustainable technologies and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is already including security implications of climate change in its risk analyses, strategy development and planning guidance, according to the statement, and is including those risk analyses in its installation planning, modeling, simulation and war gaming, and the National Defense Strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhether it is increasing platform efficiency to improve freedom of action in contested logistics environments, or deploying new energy solutions to strengthen resilience of key capabilities at installations, our mission objectives are well-aligned with our climate goals,\u201d Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. \u201cThe department will leverage that alignment to modernize the force, strengthen our supply chains, identify opportunities to work closely with allies and partners, and compete with China for the energy technologies that are essential to our future success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is all in accordance with the “Uniter-In-Chief” unilateral royal edicts<\/del> executive orders. On that topic, since Jan 20, 2021 Biden has issued 37 executive orders. This doesn’t count other forms of administrative directives. It’s been seven weeks since he took office, so that means he’s issued on average five a week. If he keeps this pace, which he shows absolutely no sign of slowing down, he’ll issue 137 in his first year alone.<\/p>\n

For context, Biden’s already written as many EOs as Trump did in all of 2019 and more than Obama did in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017.<\/p>\n

Trump wrote 55 in 2017, 37 in 2018, 45 in 2019, 69 in 2020, and 14 during the waning days of his term in 2021. Obama wrote 38 in 2009, 36 in 2010, 34 in 2011, 39 in 2012, 20 in 2013, 31 in 2014, 29 in 2015, 42 in 2016 (10 of those after the election), and just 7 in 2017. Biden’s on pace to, in the first two months of his presidency issue more executive orders than any single year of Obama. By the end of summer he’ll very likely have surpassed Trump’s high water mark. Biden’s also doing this while he has both houses of the legislative branch. “Unifier” indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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