\u201cIt is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the Navy quietly shut down its specialized U.S. Navy Task Force Climate Change in March, reversing an Obama-era initiative designed to prepare naval leadership for global shifts in sea levels, melting ice sheets and ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Navy officials told E&E News, which initially reported the termination of the program<\/a>, that the task force\u2019s mission was one that was \u201cno longer needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But questions soon arose into whether the task force\u2019s demise could be traced to ongoing efforts by President Donald J. Trump to end numerous federal climate change initiatives, reversing policies instituted by the previous administration beginning in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe that there\u2019s a change in weather, and I think it changes both ways,\u201d Trump said in a June 2019 interview<\/a> on \u201cGood Morning Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDon\u2019t forget it used to be called global warming. That wasn\u2019t working. Then it was called climate change. Now it\u2019s actually called extreme weather, because with extreme weather, you can\u2019t miss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s remarks arrived two years after he announced the United States\u2019 withdrawal<\/a> from the Paris accord to battle climate change by preventing a 2 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The president said that U.S. participation would \u201cundermine our economy” and leave the nation “at a permanent disadvantage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mabus-greenland.jpg.jpg\")