BRUSSELS/BERLIN -If the U.S. military were a nation state, it would be the world's 47th largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, a 2019 study found.
NATO diplomats say efforts to focus on climate change were stymied during Donald Trump's U.S. presidency. He called climate change a "hoax" and pulled the United States out of the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change. Trump also expressed a lack of trust in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and in 2018 threatened to withdraw the United States from the alliance formed in 1949 to contain a Soviet military threat.
Meeting that goal will mean reducing military emissions that are often exempted from countries' carbon emissions targets - no mean feat for the U.S. Department of Defense, the world's single largest consumer of petroleum, according to research in 2019 by Neta Crawford at Boston University. Some NATO allies are working to reduce electricity use or are integrating climate prediction models into military missions. Germany has its first carbon-neutral barracks, producing energy almost completely from geothermal power and solar panels. The Dutch military can use solar panels instead of diesel generators during operations. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have described climate change as a "crisis multiplier".
What the hell does NATO have to do with climate change? I thought they were formed to defend European allies.
The world is getting hotter as part of the regular weather cycle. We are coming out of a little ice age 1000 years ago. Climate change hysteria is a 'hoax'
A sane man is President of the United States 🇺🇸again.
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