Intelligence Chief Backs Climate Study - WP

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Source: Washington Post

Intelligence Chief Backs Climate Study
McConnell Calls Security Review 'Appropriate';
Some GOP Leaders Oppose Idea

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 12, 2007; Page A09

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell believes it is "appropriate"
for global climate change to be considered in a future National Intelligence
Estimate, according to a letter he sent Wednesday to Rep. Anna G. Eshoo
(D-Calif.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.

The letter arrived yesterday, one day after senior Republicans on the House
intelligence panel criticized a provision in the fiscal 2008 intelligence
authorization bill, co-authored by Eshoo, that requires the production of an
NIE dealing with the impact climate change would have on U.S. national
security.

After a vigorous exchange late Thursday night, the House voted 230 to 185
to defeat a motion to remove the provision from the bill. The motion was
offered by Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), ranking minority member and
former committee chairman.

In the letter, made available to The Washington Post by Eshoo's office,
McConnell wrote, "I believe it is entirely appropriate for the National
Intelligence Council (NIC) to prepare an assessment on the geopolitical and
security implications of global climate change." The NIC supervises national
intelligence estimates.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102375.html

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The article goes on with Hoekstra blaming 9/11 intelligence lapses
on a preoccupation with the environment.

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Source: New York Times

Spy Chief Backs Study of Impact of Warming

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: May 12, 2007

WASHINGTON, May 11 — Stepping into the middle of a partisan debate
on Capitol Hill, the United States’ top intelligence official has
endorsed a comprehensive study by spy agencies about the impact of
global warming on national security.

In a letter written earlier this week to the House Intelligence Committee,
the official, Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, said
it was “entirely appropriate” that the intelligence community prepare an
assessment of the “geopolitical and security implications of global climate
change.”

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“Let other federal agencies, as more than a dozen already do, cover the
‘bugs and bunnies.’ But let our spies be spies,” Representative Peter
Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence
Committee, wrote Thursday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article.

But intelligence officials have already recognized the importance of
studying how crises caused by climate change, like famine and rising sea
levels, could affect the United States’ security. Even as Congress was
debating whether to order a national intelligence estimate, intelligence
agencies had already planned to include a discussion of global warming
in a report next year on the main security challenges facing the United
States through 2025.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/washington/12intel.html

[sam sarrha]

1. do they have a projected date when we expect to take entire population of Canada as refugees when

their county becomes an Eternal Siberia as the ocean currents stop and the next ice age starts..

and Mexico will probably suffer total desertification as we suffer droughts and massive destruction of food supplies when the weather destroys crops, floods communities and blows them off the map.. and the oceans destroy coastal communities not destroyed by mega hurricanes.

there will be massive relocation of regional populations.. and we have wasted all our money and hardware on war.. and we sent our factories, that mihgt have made the equiptment to save us, to China who will fare less well than us..