Debates about global warming continue on Capitol Hill, but this weekend, Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence gave a thumbs up for the spy business to do a comprehensive study about the effect of global warming relative to our security. There have been ongoing partisan arguments over the intelligence sector becoming involved with global warming. Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee is in opposition. He thinks other agencies already cover this. Our intelligence is stretched thin with the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, but McConnell thinks it’s fitting that the intelligence sector assess problems of security that could arise if too many catastrophic events take place as a result of global warming. Most of our intelligence agencies were to include global warming effects relative to security through 2025 in a report for next year anyway.
Just a month ago, several retired admirals and generals agreed that climate change posed a serious threat to national security. Some nay sayers about global warming thought that was quite a stretch. But think about it.
There are fires burning out of control in the west, in Florida, and now Minnesota, land of the lakes? It never occurred to me that Michigan might burn also. We’re surrounded by huge masses of water. Yet Minnesota, which is saturated throughout with small lakes is burning. Florida alone lost 250,000 acres. Fires don’t just burn trees; they pollute the air horribly and leave no trees to eat up the excess CO2. They also burn telephone poles, and power sources. Communication is cut. Remember high school psychology? People seek food and shelter on first before they do all else. When homes and all their contents are lost, food and shelter is the first thing sought. No one is thinking about terrorism.
In the 2004 presidential elections terrorism was all anyone was thinking about. When a political poller called me they had a list of about 10 things that might be important to voters. They spoke with my husband and me. On the list of course was terrorism, the war in Iraq, the economy, healthcare, etc. About 7th on the list was the environment. Of course my husband chose the economy for his concern, but when I said environment, the Democrat on the other end repeated “Environment???” in wonderment. I guess it didn’t concern very many people then. I explained that Mother Nature could kill us all in a short period. One million terrorists could surround us but if that ground opens up or that volcano blows, see ya bye. The young voice was silent for a while. Not long thereafter, we got Katrina. What an example.
What this says to me is that global warming is real despite Sen. Inholfe’s waving a list of scientists that don’t believe so. And debates that heated up on Capitol Hill not long ago are giving way to the realization about climate change agency by agency. Admirals, generals, more scientists than not, and now our national intelligence thinks it’s a serious threat. While we have people like Inholfe in adamant opposition of global warming, our House passed a bill this past Friday that is believed to be around $48 billion dollars that concerns global warming. It’s an authorization for national intelligence to estimate the risk factors for national security associated with catastrophic events, like famine and rising sea levels, brought on by global warming.
Remember I keep saying, “move over” relative to other nations being devastated. People become desperate when it’s about survival and will seek any country that will give them refuge. That’s a concern for our national intelligence. They also realize when events like this hit third world countries like those found in Africa, their governments could literally topple. All of sudden we’re concerned about these countries, in connection to global warming catastrophes of all things, where we should have been concerned all along. Many African countries are budding democracies. This is where we should have been instead of Iraq, helping democracy grow throughout Africa. Arab militia have been raping and pillaging there all along. So we have a pretty good idea who will step in as quasi governments if these countries suffer any more natural disasters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/washington/12intel.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin.
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