Panetta’s next war

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Washington Times:

America has a fresh national-security threat, an enemy is every bit as elusive as al Qaeda: global warming. That’s according to Pentagon chief Leon Panetta, who has declared war on climate change. This is a fight America can’t afford.

“The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,” Mr. Panetta told an Environmental Defense Fund reception last week honoring the Defense Department’s latest initiative, according to the American Forces Press Service. “Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief,” he claimed.

As former White House chief of staff, CIA director and now as secretary of Defense, Mr. Panetta has probably forgotten more about national security than most experts will ever know. So it’s troubling that he is apparently relying on outdated information in marshaling military resources in an effort to alter the planet’s weather.

Global warming is a theory premised on the belief that the carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels traps the sun’s heat and causes the earth’s temperatures to rise. However, as increased industrialization during the past century has caused atmospheric CO2 levels to increase steadily, global temperatures have not followed the predicted upward trend. Not surprisingly, the polar ice caps have not melted in expected fashion. For example, Arctic sea ice in April averaged 5.69 million square miles, “the highest average ice extent for the month since 2001,” according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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I tell ya, Global Warming is rapidly reaching the sacrament status that Abortion has with the left.