Last month, 11 retired admirals and generals issued a report saying that global warming poses real problems for national security. It Estimate, their premier product, to this issue. Now the House has passed an intelligence authorization bill with a provision for that estimate.
Despite This is not a new idea. The propensity of humans to fight over resources is as old as the species. And there's no real question that climate change will bring with it exactly the kinds of extreme weather conditions - flooding, droughts, and the spread of deserts, to name a few - that exacerbate existing conflicts and create new ones.
So our intelligence efforts and military J.M. McConnell, the director of national intelligence, who told Congress it's Rep.
Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.
) put in a free-standing bill to require a National Intelligence Estimate. Some of its language survived a Republican effort to strip it out.
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