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Cheney says the project’s done a lot of their work inside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. on topics like climate change, nuclear and alternative energy, but their funders insisted that they get out into the real world. And their message was not just that climate change is real, but that we, as Americans, are causing it to the greatest degree.
Cheney and others spoke of how erratic weather events that are more likely with climate change are already sucking up military resources.
“Hurricane Sandy turned into to a major joint operation for the United States military,” Cheney says.” Every service was involved. A Marine expeditionary unit went to New York. How do you plan for that? How do you budget for that?”
And it’s not just coastal regions that are bearing the burden of climate change. They also stressed that future storms will impact Pennsylvania—in particular, western Pennsylvania where wet weather’s already causes problems. Cheney says beyond the military costs, local taxpayers will have to shell out a lot of money.
