busyAmerica's military professionals are discussing the foreseeable impacts of climate change on geopolitics: "national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration."
I am pleased to see people in official positions confronting these issues. Geopolitics underlies the whole of history, and climate change is making huge alterations to the status quo in geopolitics. It's all about what you have that other people want, and what they have that you want, what lies between here and there ... and what people are willing to do to get it. Now, conservatives can ignore scientists as always, but are supposed to be tight with the military. So listen to your own dudes.
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Yes...
May 30 2011, 19:03:40 UTC 10 years ago
May 30 2011, 21:44:18 UTC 10 years ago
As for political conservatives who hold office in the US government, they'll believe anything that brings contracts to the Big Corporations in their home districts. This is also true of most political liberals, since all elected politicians have to constantly raise money for their reelection campaigns. But it's particularly obvious in the case of conservatives since they are tied so closely to business interests.
Yes...
May 30 2011, 22:06:35 UTC 10 years ago
True.
>>As for political conservatives who hold office in the US government, they'll believe anything that brings contracts to the Big Corporations in their home districts. This is also true of most political liberals, since all elected politicians have to constantly raise money for their reelection campaigns.<<
Voters have a choice between Big Business heavy or Big Business lite. It's even worse now that the limits and transparency for corporate spending are largely removed. The results are disastrous more often than not.
May 30 2011, 22:58:23 UTC 10 years ago
I think we can conclude that conservatives know global warming is real,
and intend to do nothing about it.
That is to say,
they decided quite some time ago
that it would be more profitable to solve any problems global warming causes
by military means.
Thoughts
May 30 2011, 23:03:07 UTC 10 years ago
and intend to do nothing about it.<<
Which, considering the damage done to America, can be considered a species of treason.
Re: Thoughts
May 30 2011, 23:21:25 UTC 10 years ago
but to rely on a shopworn standard:
Treason doth never prosper,
for if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
*sigh*
Re: Thoughts
May 30 2011, 23:51:35 UTC 10 years ago
May 31 2011, 05:35:25 UTC 10 years ago
We are seeing PM3 cards on the DS3's out of "Big City", CA, slowly dying. I've been tracking this issue since Feb of 10. As the weather heats up, the central offices and terminals start to overheat, and the PM3 cards start dying like flies. But this particular terminal seems to be killing them off like a bug zapper.
Tactics says to keep replacing the PM3 cards.
Strategy say to replace the backplane on the entire Tellabs 5500 DXC.
Logistics says that to replace the backplane, it's going to cost 1.5 million dollars, will take at least a whole day to complete, and will completely black out 75% of "Big City's" communications, and probably isolate Northern CA from Southern CA.
So guess what we keep doing.
Hmm...
May 31 2011, 08:10:03 UTC 10 years ago
Though I should talk; we had to replace the lightbulbs in my office every second or third week until we switched to compact fluorescents. For some reason those are more resistant to magical burnout.
May 31 2011, 20:03:52 UTC 10 years ago
I think that assumes a sincerity to the conservative dismissal of science which does not actually exist at higher levels. I'm pretty sure many conservative politicians accept anthropogenic climate change, but have too many commitments to risk acknowledging that belief and alienating some support.