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Scientific Alarmism Drives DOD Climate Policy

Scientific Alarmism Drives DOD Climate Policy
Clouds tinged orange by the summer sun around midnight in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, on July 24, 2018. Mary Lewandowski/NPGallery
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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, purportedly on firmly established “science-based” targets that are validated by computer models and consensus within the scientific community.

Scott Sturman, M.D., a former Air Force helicopter pilot, is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy Class of 1972, where he majored in aeronautical engineering. A member of Alpha Omega Alpha, he graduated from the University of Arizona School of Health Sciences Center and practiced medicine for 35 years until retirement. He now lives in Reno, Nevada.
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