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This blog post was written by Rear Adm. Dave Titley, Oceanographer of the Navy and director of Task Force Climate Change.
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People caught in a crisis tend to open up their checkbooks and just start desperately spending. Before climate change is deemed a crisis to national security, we want to have studied it, evaluated our options, and analytically determined the proper investments to make. It is our duty to the American people to ensure we make wise investments and remain fully mission-capable.

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Editor and columnist for Cracked.com
...There is so much genuine fear-mongering in the world. Pundits and politicians scream at you all hours of the day, attempting to whip up some primal panic that they can capitalize on. Because, for reasons that I never quite understood, there seems to be little else in this world more profitable than triggering somebody's fight or flight reflex. If you can just manage to scare the crap out of a good chunk of people, you basically have free reign to fill your wallets with their money, and your bleachers with rabid devotees.