CIA and the Pentagon urged to assess warming's effect on security

[sabra]

Source: The Boston Globe/IHT

WASHINGTON: The CIA and the 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 in 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 U.S. security, including "direct physical threats to the United States posed by extreme weather events such as hurricanes."

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/news/climate.php

[robinlynne]

how about we fix it instead?

[Demeter]

1. It's Only Been....How Many Years Since Katrina?

(Shakes head in disbelief)