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Bernie Sanders

Donkees

(32,395 posts) Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:24 AM Mar 2019

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When Bernie Sanders said in a 2016 debate that climate change was a threat to national security ... (Original Post) Donkees Mar 2019 OP

Yup, Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #2

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1. Rising Seas Are Flooding Norfolk Naval Base, and There's No Plan to Fix It

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 10:00 AM

Mar 2019

Naval Station Norfolk, home to the Atlantic Fleet, floods not just in heavy rains or during hurricanes. It floods when the sun is shining, too, if the tide is high or the winds are right. It floods all the time.

"It is an impediment to the base accomplishing its mission," Bouchard said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/insideclimatenews.org/news/10252017/military-norfolk-naval-base-flooding-climate-change-sea-level-global-warming-virginia%3famp

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2. Yup,

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 10:06 AM

Mar 2019

It is a threat to national security. The Pentagon knows it and is planning for it, perhaps imperfectly, but planning nevertheless.