June 28, 2008

global warming news - Report calls global warming a threat to US security - CNN International

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. That will put pressure on countries receiving refugees, many of which "will have neither the resources nor interest to host these climate migrants," he said in testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The report was the conclusion of the most comprehensive government analysis the U. The report, the "National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030," relied on U. The assessment "was a waste of time, a waste of resources for the intelligence community to be focused on this issue versus other folks in the government that could have done this job and have a responsibility for doing it.

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