{"id":560143,"date":"2021-06-10T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=560143"},"modified":"2021-06-10T20:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:36:20","slug":"joint-chiefs-chairman-clarifies-biden-remark-that-global-warming-is-greatest-physical-threat-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joint-chiefs-chairman-clarifies-biden-remark-that-global-warming-is-greatest-physical-threat-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Chiefs Chairman Clarifies Biden Remark That Global Warming Is \u2018Greatest Physical Threat\u2019 To America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoint-chiefs-chairman-clarifies-biden-remark-that-global-warming-is-greatest-physical-threat-to-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=560143&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-7.45.54-PM-e1623368840233.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"50.782258064516\">\n<p>America\u2019s top military officer said Thursday that China and Russia remain the greatest military threats to America after President Biden said that the Joint Chiefs told him that the greatest physical threat facing America was global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change does impact, but the president is looking at a much broader angle than I am. I\u2019m looking at it from a strictly military standpoint. And from a strictly military standpoint, I\u2019m putting China, Russia up there,\u201d Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional panel Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not, however, in conflict with the acknowledgment that climate change or infrastructure or education systems \u2013 national security has a broad angle to it. I\u2019m looking at it from a strictly military standpoint,\u201d Gen. Milley added in response to the question that came from North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think it\u2019s peculiar that the president would go to another continent and tell our service members there that the number one threat is climate change,\u201d Sen. Cramer said in response to Gen. Milley\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/joe-biden-united-kingdom-global-warming-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speaking<\/a> at Royal Air Force Mildenhall station in the United Kingdom yesterday, President Biden told the crowd of American troops that the Joint Chiefs said while he was vice president that the greatest threat facing the United States today is climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first was elected vice president with President Obama, military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were \u2014 greatest physical threats. This is not a joke,\u201d Biden told the soldiers. \u201cYou know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was? Global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has made fighting climate change a cornerstone of his policy agenda since the first day of his administration with some of his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/biden-climate-change-orders-reversing-trump-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first acts<\/a> as president being executive orders to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and halt construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/17\/biden-climate-change-carbon-tax-greenhouse-gas-emissions-energy-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden\u2019s Climate Plan Will Lead To Higher Costs For Consumers And Households, Experts Say)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/01\/biden-infrastructure-plan-climate-change-green-agenda-subsidies-electric-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infrastructure<\/a> package also includes millions of dollars in spending on green energy programs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s top military officer said Thursday that China and Russia remain the greatest military threats to America after President Biden said that the Joint Chiefs told him that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279969,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-7.45.54-PM-e1623368840233.png","fifu_image_alt":"Joint Chiefs Chairman Clarifies Biden Remark That Global Warming Is \u2018Greatest Physical Threat\u2019 To America","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-7.45.54-PM-e1623368840233.png","fifu_image_alt":"Joint Chiefs Chairman Clarifies Biden Remark That Global Warming Is \u2018Greatest Physical Threat\u2019 To America","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}