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December 10, 2013 – Picking up where we left off last week, businesses at the leading edge of climate change understanding have discovered that the cost of climate change inaction is greater than the cost of grappling with climate change.   No surprise to climatologists, this is a concept badly in need of promulgation.   The response in Washington is and will always be, but where do we find the money?   The answer is simple.   No one wants to be the first (or second, or third) to say it out loud, but it has to be said.   The money will, and must, be taken out of the defense budget.   Smaller percentages will come from entitlements’ budgets.   These are all tough pills to swallow, but the alternative is unimaginably worse. The defense budget currently stands at $530 billion, not including any ongoing wars.   That number needs to be cut dramatically, and it needs to be cut right away.   Halving the defense budget within fiv...