Chuck Hagel Quotes
Climate change is a global problem. Its impacts do not respect national borders. No nation can deal with it alone. We must all work together, building joint capability to deal with these emerging threats. .
Chuck Hagel, U. S. Senator (Republican, NB), U. S. Secretary of Defense, Quoted in Dan Lamothe, “Climate change is a threat to national security, Pentagon says, The Washington Post, October 14, 2014”
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His Virgin Group companies founded a biofuels research and production company.
[While the Obama-Biden administration had done much more than the previous George W. Bush administration to reduce the rate of increase in environmental damage to the planet, many critics also fault the Obama-Biden administration for not doing more than "laying the groundwork". However, there was a Republican-controlled congress whose major objective was to prevent any bill from passing for which the President and the Democrats could claim credit. In addition there was a strong element of the Republican party which was ideologically opposed to admitting that man's activities—–especially industrial activities—–were having any kind of harmful effects. So, there was little operationally that the Obama-Biden administration could do other than build the "groundwork"].
The Paris Agreement was an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on December 12, 2015. Never before in the history of the world had that many nations agreed on anything. Yet the United States Donald Trump administration, and a significant proportion of right wing and Tea Party Repoblicans actually believed that the threat of climate change was a hoax and at best the erroneous conclusion of "left wing" scientists. Within the wcientific community in the United State, there were very few major scientific issues for which there was almost unanamous consensus. Climat change and the role of humans in accelerating it was one of those.
NASA has already demonstrated how they can deflect an asteroid that might be in a trajectory to strike the earth. However they must have time to do it, and that meant a new type of telescope had to be built—to detect small, close asteroids—at a cost of $½ billion, the cost of a major highway overpass. The Congress the was one that passed almost no legislation, so Lu and others started a private foundation (B612) to raise the money for the detecting telescope.
Many Republicans were in denial about climate change claiming that all the scientists were wrong about the facts of global warming and the danger to man that it posed. Beauprez, however, had an almost unique position among candidates. He agreed that climate change was a great danger, however, he thought the concern of most Democrats and some liberal Republicans was unnecessary hysteria because God will save the Earth—His creation.
Charles Timothy Hagel is an American military veteran and former politician who served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009 and as the 24th United States secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 in the Obama administration.
