Adaptation to polluted air and global warming in Brazil? No, it's a 10-10-10 demonstration.

It now looks like the U.S. government is going to forgo efforts to try to stop greenhouse gas emissions and head straight to planning for adaptation to climate change.  As if that can even be done without drastically cutting emissions.

United States Must Take Steps to Adapt to Climate Change, Report States

From Science: A report requested  by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy says the federal government needs an organized effort to develop effective strategies to adapt to a changing climate.  These approaches should include regional partnerships between scientists and local planners and resource managers as well as educational programs to train new experts in adaptation.  Sharing data is another priority.  But the efforts don’t require a lot of new money, the report said.

The federal government is way behind on efforts to develop effective strategies to adapt to a changing climate, a new report to the White House says [recently]

“Even with mitigation efforts, climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up in the oceans,” the report says. States, cities, and towns could use guidance from the federal government’s vast climate science effort on how to prepare for a warmer world, it adds.

What mitigation efforts?  They are giving up before they’re even seriously trying mitigation.

The other big factor is what we are wasting the fossil fuels on.  War is currently one of the biggest contributors to climate change-causing emissions, and the Obama administration shows little sign of stopping the war machine responsible for this.

Who else is waging big fuel-guzzling wars, other than the U.S.?  No one is doing this like the U.S.  No one even comes close.

Countries like India and China are at least using fuel to better their country and pursue renewable energy.  We waste our fuel on wars — to get even more of the same fuel we are wasting to get it.  Until that foolishness ends, there’s little anyone else can do that won’t be negated by a fuel-hogging bomber somewhere over Afghanistan.  These are older figures (see post below this for newer ones) but they still show staggering amounts of fuel use by the military:

Here is what a report from Office of Under Secretary of Defense says “Because DOD’s consumption of oil represents the highest priority of all uses, there will be no fundamental limits to DOD’s fuel supply for many, many decades.” [4]

American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war

“The Army calculated that it would burn 40 million gallons of fuel in three weeks of combat in Iraq, an amount equivalent to the gasoline consumed by all Allied armies combined during the four years of World War I.” [1]

In May 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, [...]