The US Army is canceling more than 90 studies, including some that US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has ruled out as “garbage” on climate change.
Military and intelligence officers have identified potential threats to climate change in the last decade that include natural disasters in densely populated coastal areas and damage to US military basis worldwide.
“The (Department of Defense) does not do trash on climate change,” Hegseth posted at X on Sunday. .
An official Pentagon account then republished a screen capture of a story by quoting Hegseth using the word and added: “verification of true facts.”
The Pentagon said in a separate statement that he would discard 91 studies related to social sciences on topics ranging from global migration patterns and impact on climate change to social trends and save $ 30 million in one year.
He has listed as canceled studies including “social and institutional determinants of vulnerability and resilience to climatic risks in the African Sahel” and “food fights: war narratives and identity reproduction in evolving conflicts”.
A pentagon study in 2018 found that almost half of all US military places were threatened by climate change climate.
During the previous government, led by the Pentagon had said it would include the risk of climate change in military simulations and war games. Trump took a different position.
Last week, his government withdrew from the UN climate damage fund dedicated to helping poor and vulnerable countries to deal with disasters fueled by climate change.
Withdrawal is one of many measures taken by the Trump government to.
