That's right, a Senate bill is in the works that would require the Pentagon and the CIA to treat Global Warming as a National Security issue.
WASHINGTON -- The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue.
The bipartisan proposal, which its sponsors expect to pass the Congress with wide support, calls for the director of national intelligence to conduct the first-ever "national intelligence estimate" on global warming.The effort would include pinpointing the regions at highest risk of humanitarian suffering and assessing the likelihood of wars erupting over diminishing water and other resources.
The measure also would order the Pentagon to undertake a series of war games to determine how global climate change could affect US security, including "direct physical threats to the United States posed by extreme weather events such as hurricanes."
"The bipartisan proposal...." Hmmm...I wonder who they Senators are? Let's keep reading....
The measure, sponsored by Senator Chuck Hagel , a Nebraska Republican, and Senator Richard J. Durbin , an Illinois Democrat, comes as other international bodies are taking steps to designate global warming as a high international priority.
Hagel and Durbin. I guess that would meet the MSM requirement of bipartisan: socialist and uber-socialist.
3 comments:
"socialist and uber-socialist"
EFFIN' BRILLIANT, MAN!
or assh*le and uber assh*le!
btw: did you see newsbusters post on hannah storm/cbs coverage of dem candidates versus how they covered the GOP candidates the following week!?!?
a must read.
i was just saying a similar thing this weekend: when the GOP raises a lot of money it's evil. money is evil and it corrupts the process.
BUT WHEN OBAMA AND HILLARY RAISE A LOT: it shows how popular they are.
this issue with the NB link might be worthy of another popinjay post?
another thing: the "root cause" of this bill the the deep-seeded HATRED the left has for the pentagon.
they want to cut NMD but then saddle the generals with crap like AGW!
while cutting funding for our troops DURING A WAR!
they HATE the pentagon and all defense spending.
only that jerk kucinich is crazy enough to admit it, though.
the rest of the dems just lie and lie and lie with their WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS crap.
the sad truth is we are fighting this war like pussies, and we are grossly UNDERFUNDING the pentagon.
i think - as a % of GDP - the DoD budget is VERY low.
i blame George W Bush.
the W stands for wimp.
who's about to give the illegals amnesty.
sheesh.
Well, while they are at it, they might want to come up with a plan to fight the bogeyman too!
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