Right Wing’s Global Warming Denial Takes New Form, Now Attacks Advice Of Military Generals

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes and House Select Committee on Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey recently pushed through a bill that would authorize a National Intelligence Assessment to study the impact of global warming on national security and fund research by the Defense Department into the consequences for U.S. military operations posed by climate change.

Global warming deniers have jolted into action. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) — who has expressed doubts about the need to urgently address global warming — said, “There’s no value added by the intelligence community” in assessing global warming’s security impact. And the House Republican Policy Committee put out this farcical statement:



The right-wing’s attempts to politicize this issue reveal their ignorance of the assessments made by national security experts. Last month, the Military Advisory Board, a panel of esteemed retired military officers including President Bush’s former Middle East envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni, recommended that “national security consequences of climate change should be fully integrated into national security and national defense strategies.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/09/global-warming-national-security/

so that they can make it verboten to discuss.

200,000,000 people displaced by rising ocean levels and expanding desertification couldn't possibly have any effect on OUR security, could it?

:banghead:

They have a report from Schwartz and Randall.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html


"no value added by the intelligence community”, indeed.