Opinion | Scott Sturman Column
The DOD Gambles On Climate Change
By Scott Sturman
July 18, 2024
Coauthored by Doug Goodman. Goodman graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1972 and majored in physics and atmospheric physics. His professional life began as a weather officer in the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and later evolved into a career in the aerospace industry developing remote sensing and high performance supercomputing systems.
Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as necessary to counteract the existential threat of climate change. The program’s comprehensive and prohibitively expensive initiative proposes to transform the operational military by achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2045. The rationale to implement this grandiose experiment is justified by computer climate modeling that is wildly inaccurate and fails to take into account multiple variables affecting the climate.
The dictum that elevations of atmospheric CO2 concentration alone cause temperatures to rise in a purported limitless fashion raises questions about the rationality of recalibrating the world’s economy to comply with an unproven theory based on computer modeling. The sheer simplicity of the atmospheric CO2 driven climate hypothesis mocks the complexity of the earth’s atmospheric system and minimizes a myriad of other inputs. Over earth's past 570 million years, paleoclimatic evidence demonstrates no cause and effect correlation between CO2 and temperature, and in fact, it shows that rising global temperatures precede CO2 increases. Multiple variables interact randomly, cyclically, and non linearly to drive climate dynamics, whose only constant is its variability.
The public has been inundated with climate change propaganda for decades, but the façade is beginning to crack. Although most Americans believe that the climate is changing, less than half recognize it as an existential threat. There is a vibe shift developing within our culture, where observers recognize a disconnect between what they witness and what they are told. The source of the disinformation stems from affluent, elitist segments of society who, by distortion, promote luxury beliefs that they alone can tolerate and result in a generalized decline of standard of living and infringement on personal freedoms.
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