President Donald Trump is expected to sign the annual defense budget bill, which calls climate change a threat to national security.
The National Defense Authorization Act states that climate change is a threat to the Pentagon’s 128 military bases, and now Trump is expected to sign the legislation, despite downplaying and poking fun at climate change in the past, The Washington Examiner reports.
Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and said he’s “not a big believer in man-made climate change.” He’s also stated that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real.
The final version of the bill mandates the Pentagon produce a report about which bases are most at risk for the effects of climate change and what steps, if any, should be taken to mitigate the damage.
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