The House orders the Pentagon to ignore the problem

The problem being, of course, climate change.  Never mind that the DoD has been looking at the risks and impacts of climate change since the George W. Bush years. Never mind that climate change has a direct impact on potential threats, unrest, allies, opponents, logistics, etc.  Any involvement in gathering info, sharing info, or making use of info about climate change is just "political," and therefore must be expunged.

The amendment, from Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va. — hey, who would have guessed a coal state would be the source of this) is will probably not survive the Senate and conference committees. But it's another indicator to me of how the "politicization" of climate change is leading to willful ignorance being imposed by the GOP on the Defense Department and anyone else they can get hold of … for political (and campaign-financed) reasons. 

(h/t +Kee Hinckley)

Reshared post from +David Brin

Oh be proud, so very proud:  "The U.S. House-passed 2015 Defense Appropriation bill apparently intends to have the Pentagon stop using leading scientific assessments of global climate disruption in national security planning. The Pentagon takes climate change and its impacts seriously and has included these issues in two Quadrennial Defense Reviews. But an amendment by a coal-state Republican would direct DoD to disregard the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the IPCC international assessment."

It isn't just the GOP led House Science Committee that is packed with jibbering loonies.  They swarm across America in this civil war, in which the battleground is science and reason.

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/