Climate denial led Congress to bar military climate planning

Evidence

For example, they have resulted in a gag rule that prevents the military from taking facts about climate change into account in its planning. A 2003 Pentagon report recognized rising sea levels and desertification as security threats, and a 2014 Department of Defense report “categorized climate conflict as a near term strategic challenge.” Yet 216 members of Congress supported an amendment blocking the military from considering the impact of climate change in its strategic planning. In another case, the word climate was eliminated from the mission statement of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Across the board, offices and programs with responsibility for collecting and analyzing data are eliminated or starved of resources; the Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency announced its intention to defund satellites and ocean buoys that keep track of climate changes. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 252

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