US Military Abandons Climate Work
Whatever climate research came from the US military will not come anymore. Whatever was done to decrease emissions for military hardware is over.
According to USAToday, “However, the new administration, under Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense, has stated several times it won’t be focusing on climate change, which appears to be a departure from the department’s stance in the past.”
Aside from the fact that the military has significant and broad research capacities, the challenge of its decoupling from climate issues has a broader effect.
Huge Carbon Footprint
In a research paper from Science Daily titled, “U.S. military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries — massive hidden impact on climate,” the authors pointed out that “The research provides an independent public assessment of the US military’s greenhouse gas emissions. It reports that if the US military were a nation state, it would be the 47th largest emitter of GHG in the world, if only taking into account the emission from fuel usage.”
The US military has begun working on shrinking its footprint and has some staff who are focused on these goals.
The work on this is over, although it was never finished
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