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. . . Because If You Don’t Study It, It Doesn’t Exist 2

This item from my local rag caused me to drop my jaw this morning. There’s a good chance that, within my children’s lifetimes, the world’s largest military complex (which surrounds me as I type this) will be under water, but Republicans want to stick their fingers in the Pentagon’s ears and go “Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah.”

Tacked on to defense spending bills passed by the House of Representatives: amendments forbidding the Pentagon from using federal dollars to study climate change or plan for its impacts.

Supporters say they want the military focused on enemies such as the Islamic State group, not rising seas.

Critics say flooding is a formidable foe as well.

“It’s kind of hard to attack the enemy when your base is underwater,” said Rep. Bobby Scott, a Southeast Virginia Democrat who voted against the ban.

The Republican Party, the party of willful ignorance.

More at the link.

And, in more news of willful ignorance . . . .

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    July 27, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    Yeah, Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Newport News/Hampton Roads is going to take a hit. Unavoidable now, it’s going to happen. You know it. I know it. Everybody does. Consult the Dutch. Maybe the mother of all dikes and seawalls will help but I wouldn’t bet on it.

     
  2. Frank

    July 27, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    I suspect it’s pretty much a done deal at this point. The precise location of our abode (25 feet above sea level) will be an island in a generation, uninhabitable in two.