SOMETHING ELSE THE DENIALISTS WILL HAVE TO SPIN

The wingnuts have made denying man-made climate change a staple talking point despite the massive evidence for it. Now, the combined U.S. intelligence services have issued a report that says climate change will occur and will pose a threat to our national security. You can get the 58-page report here.

Intelligence Agencies: Climate Threatens Security

NPR.org, June 25, 2008 · Global climate change is likely to trigger humanitarian disasters and political instability that will have a major impact on U.S. national security, a top intelligence official told Congress on Wednesday.

A new assessment by the National Intelligence Council — with input from all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies — treats climate change as a security threat.

"Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated [by climate change] would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism," said Tom Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, who testified before a joint House committee hearing Wednesday.

Here's a snippet from Fingar's testimony:

Our primary source for climate science was the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment
Report, which we augmented with other peer-reviewed analyses and contracted research. We used the UN Panel report as our baseline because this document was reviewed and coordinated on by the US government and internationally respected by the scientific community.