If it isn’t stopped, Global Warming may also behead American journalists, commit ethnic cleansing in Darfur, or launch rockets into Israel. Imagine what Global Warming can do with the missing chlorine tanks causing such a ruckus, or didn’t you hear about those Global Warming elements in St. Louis who were caught caching huge amounts of weapons? Global Warming is the most likely candidate to commit such atrocities on the world stage.
That must be why the Democrats are planning to divert funds and manpower from the hard pressed intelligence services to study Global Warming. From The Washington Times:
Intelligence panel Chairman Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat, said the climate-change study is one of several shifts his party has made to intelligence policy.
“We’re concerned that global warming might impact our ability to maintain national security,” he told The Times, describing the idea as “cutting edge.”
“We want to get feedback from the intelligence community to understand if there are possible global issues,” Mr. Reyes said.
Yes, it is imperative that the intelligence committee ascertain if Global Warming will have Global impact. I suppose it is possible, in Democrats’ minds, that Global Warming would only effect Red States, thus requiring no action be taken.
See-Dubya writing at Hot Air has the best analysis of the move:
“That they would even consider pulling our spies off of Iranian nukes and Al Qaeda networks in order to put them to work on Global Warming is damning. Clearly the Democrats prefer to defend us against their list of abstract, ideologically driven boogeymen rather than our very real, ruthless, proven enemies.
If this requirement should pass, the first terrorist bomb to go off on U.S. soil means the political end of the Democratic party. In the post-mortem hearings, the DNI need only point out that even a handful of field officers, analysts, and resources were diverted from terror assessments to work climate issues, per Congressional dictum. And thus the buck will be passed back to the Pelosi crowd.”
Which is a good point, but I’d rather not wait for another attack to wake up the Democrats as to what is our most immediate concern.