Typically, the president implied clear and present dangers from climate change, although the “consensus” science he purports to champion projects effects on extreme weather roughly 80 years from now.

By then, today’s cadets will have long ago passed the baton of the fearsome battle against climate change to subsequent generations.

Of course, if climate change were a true enemy of the United States, President Obama would extend a hand of peace — or declare victory and go home.

Defining climate change as a national­security threat is simply a rhetorical ploy to stoke alarmism, in hopes of creating support for self-­sacrificial anti­-carbon policies that can’t survive any reasonable cost-­benefit analysis.