Hail Rick Scott!! House GOP Seeks To Remove DOD Funding To Plan For Climate Disruption

[hatrack]

House Republicans are seeking to cut funds from the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) budgets that are directed at researching the national security implications of climate change. In a sweeping budget proposal rolled out on Tuesday, which presents the yin to the Obama administration's yang when it comes to spending priorities, lawmakers identified national security-related climate change research as a key area to eliminate "wasteful" spending.

"The Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, two of the most important agencies in our national security apparatus, currently spend part of their budget studying climate change," a House Budget Committee document states.

For years, including under the George W. Bush administration, the Defense Department and intelligence community have assessed the potential for climate change to act as a threat multiplier, particularly in areas that have preexisting sources of tension.

The Republican proposal, put forward by Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price of Georgia, comes soon after a study found that global warming likely amplified a drought in Syria that preceded the devastating civil war in that country. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change was likely one of the many factors that contributed to the deadly conflict, which has displaced millions and killed at least 200,000.

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http://mashable.com/2015/03/17/republicans-national-security-global-warming-spending/

[riversedge]

1. I am not into so much $$ for the military but they do good with climate

change research--even as it fits their goals--in the end it will benefit all.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Gop strategy: Get shovel. Dig. Dig. Dig a hole large enough to fit their head.

[Moostache]

3. Why do they hate America?

Seriously.

The treasonous bastards in the Senate and their bomb-throwing ideologues colleagues in the House are a far bigger threat to America than ISIS, Syria, Iran and the ghost of Bin Laden put together.

They have officially adopted "Hear no warming, See no warming, speak no warming" as national policy? For fuck's sake...when the hell will the grown ups in that dysfunctional body called the United States Congress show up and will it be in time to prevent total catastrophes or not?

[truebrit71]

4. Idiots. Every single one.

[n2doc]

5. The Koch Bros and their ilk are more important than Defense

Amazing to see, but apparently true to Republicans.