US Navy sinking skeptics?

Posted on August 17, 2010 in Attended

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco this evening. He seemed to be avoiding controversial statements, but described how the Navy is planning to patrol an Arctic Ocean that is projected to be ice-free in about 25 years and is moving to cut fossil fuel use in half by 2020.

It occurs to me that it’s hard to see how an American, at least, can maintain a skeptic’s position in the face of these plans. Mablus, a former governor, stated these plans as unexceptional. They’re reviewed, and must be approved, by congressmen and senators of both parties. If any of them believe that climate change is not real, they are seriously derelict in approving Navy budgets of many tens of billions of dollar that are based on such considerations – and in not making these actions by the Navy a campaign issue.