The Existing Threat Is Climate Change – Is It Emerging With That?

This authority was lost at sea.

FRANCIS P. SEMPA written on The American Spectator:

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has just released “Climate Action 2030,” a 32-page report that identifies climate change as an “existential threat” to the U.S. Navy and the nation. In the foreword to the report, Del Toro wrote that climate was “at the heart” of his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, noting that both President Biden and Secretary of Defense Austin shared that view. The Department of the Navy, writes Del Toro, will be an “environmental leader” taking “robust action on climate.” We have come a long way since Alfred Thayer Mahan, the great sea power strategist and historian, with the full support of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Tracy, promoted naval leaders Our troops focus on command at sea, strategic checkpoints and sea lines of communication. 19^order and 20 . head^order century. And we’ve come a long way since Secretary of the Navy like James Forrestal contributed to geopolitical containment in the late 1940s, and John Lehman and Jim Webb promoted maritime strategy and Navy 600 ships to win the Cold War.

The Navy Department report establishes two operational goals: “building climate resilience” and “reducing climate threats.” Del Toro’s stated goals are for the Department of the Navy to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” “stabilize ecosystems,” and to “achieve… net zero emissions by 2050.” Compare that with the goal of our nation’s most threatening naval adversary – China’s PLA Navy – to become the world’s leading naval power by 2049.

The Navy Department report is filled with color photos of storms, floods, trams, military families participating in the “installation of oyster castles”, naval structures with solar panels, soldiers Navy officers help with disaster relief efforts, staff at a naval base plant factory salt marshes, electric amphibious assault ships, and naval officers help install “control equipment.” mosquito control and monitoring”. There is no picture of naval warfare, no reference to Mahan, no discussion of the challenge posed by the PLA Navy.

https://spectator.org/bidens-navy-secretary-the-existential-threat-is-climate-change/

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