HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ FOOLISHNESS MUST WE PUT UP WITH???

ITS MISSION IS NOW TO DEFEND THE ENVIRONMENT?

Far from having any interest whatsoever in sticking to what I can only assume must be very clearly laid out in its mission statement, that being of course, the taking of all measures necessary to protect the homeland from any and all actual threats made against by those terrorist groups like ISIS, it would appear that protecting the infrastructure of American cities from the effects of the ‘imagined’ threat of ‘climate change’ has now become ‘Job 1’ of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And how do we know that, you ask? Well, because it comes straight from the mouth of a top official of the very agency.

The top official to whom I refer, is some leftist bimbo by the name of Caitlin Durkovich, Ms. Durkovich has the rather impressive title of, the assistant secretary for "infrastructure protection" there at Homeland Security. That would be, like I said, that agency which, or so I thought, is responsible for safeguarding the homeland against any and all potential terrorist threats. And it was she who said, "Increasingly, we've moved not only from a security focus to a resiliency focus." Well, I don’t know about you, but that certainly makes me feel just so much safer. "Resiliency focus?" God protect us from these morons!

Durkovich made her patently idiot comments while serving as a panelist this past Thursday at something called the Rising Seas Summit, a three-day conference organized by the U.S.-based Association of Climate Change Officers. The purpose for this rather bizarre little get together was, or so we were told, to discuss tools and ideas on building resiliency, particularly against those impending rising sea levels. In the aftermath of 2012's Hurricane Sandy, Durkovich said her department reviewed the task of rebuilding with a new focus on "how to think about baking in resilience from the get-go."

And it’s because of that new focus on resiliency that our brilliant Ms. Durkovich said that she has how assembled a team of specialists, including city planners, in conjunction with the National Academy of Science to develop better tools for such planning. And in what I guess is an attempt to get ahead of a problem that anyone with a brain knows doesn’t really exist, the Department of Homeland Security has already wasted an untold amount of money as it has now launched regional efforts to assess resilience of infrastructure and judge where gaps in adaptation and preparedness may be.

For example, the Portland, Maine area, far from being a part of the country recognized for it’s rather questionable intelligence, is being looked at in terms of risks from rising sea level, how floods might be mitigated and how to deal with saltwater intrusion into what had been bodies of fresh water. California, another bastion of left wing loons, which has the country's second longest coastline after that of Alaska, is also looking increasingly at ‘climate change’ adaptation and resilience, said ‘climate change’ alarmist, Ken Alex, senior policy advisor and director of the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research.

It was this boob who said the needs and concerns of every coastal region are different. For example, the San Francisco Bay area is home to two airports subject to flooding while the port city of San Diego must work to protect a major military installation. Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach provide one in six jobs in southern California. He said California derives about $1 Billion annually from its emissions cap-and-trade program, which sells greenhouse gas emissions permits, and the state has decided that all that revenue must be spent in ways "linked to resilience." Is any of this making any sense?

To help communities develop this supposed ‘resilience,’ Alex said, California is part of a pilot program under which AmeriCorps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, will dispatch 50 young people to educate local communities about climate adaptation and resilience. Ok, just how nutty is this idea? And let’s be honest here, where else is it but in some deep blue socialist haven like California would one normally expect to find something as silly, and a completely idiotic waste of time, as this even being attempted? And who is it that these "young people" will be ‘educating’ exactly?

And this bonehead went on to make the claim that if successful, the program could become national. In New York, "Hurricane Sandy really highlighted our vulnerability" to ‘climate change,’ said Daniel Zarrilli, another panelist attending this silly gathering. Zarrilli is director of the city Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency. He said that the city is still recovering from the effects of the storm, which flooded most of its extensive shoreline, left tens of thousands without electricity for days, did billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure and killed 44 people. But what does any of this have to do with climate change that doesn’t exist?

So it is then that as our world continues to deteriorate, and at what appears to be a rapidly accelerating rate, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the priorities of those agencies responsible for keeping Americans safe have become seriously and, I would even argue, dangerously corrupted. And whether we’re talking about the State Department or the Department of Homeland Security, it’s becoming painfully obvious that this country has now been made to veer off sharply to the left when it comes to focusing on those things that truly do represent a danger to this country and her people.