The expenditure of 1.8 billion over the next dozen years (less than 150mil/year) is hardly a bold commitment to such a critically important transition. That amount should be seen as an embarrassingly timid toe in the water in the face of the enormity of the potential peril we face from our continued gluttonous consumption of fossil fuels.

In light of the DOD’s own assessment of climate change as among the gravest of national security threats it would seem that we might spend at least as much as we squander chasing a couple thousand suspected terrorists around the planet or launching drone attacks at every suspicious wedding or funeral procession in the Middle East and South Asia.