US Defence And Climate Change Spending

They are our greatest ally, so we can't question anything they do:

The US government has budgeted 647.5 billion dollars for the defence budget in 2008 — more than the defence budgets of the rest of the world’s nations combined — compared to 7.37 billion dollars for climate-related programmes.

Only 212 million dollars is devoted to helping poor countries obtain clean, renewable energy sources that do not contribute to global warming — less than what U.S. military forces in Iraq spend each day on operations there.

Last May, a group of retired US generals and admirals issued their own report, "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change" , which found, among other things, that the consequences of warming were likely to promote inter-state conflict over vital resources, such as fresh water; political turmoil and extremism within nations; food shortages and mass migrations.

“Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in the most volatile regions of the world,” according to the report.