Divert intelligence to study global warming?
I really rolled my eyes when I saw this:
Really. Take a guess.
Instead of tasking our satellites to take a look at exactly what the proliferation capabilities are in China or North Korea, we are going to task them to look somewhere else even though that same kind of capabilities may be available from commercial imagery? Exactly what information does the intelligence community, I mean, it's our business to steal secrets, to find out what the plans and intentions are of those who want to attack the United States. This is information.Read it all here. So, on the amendment to require the intelligence community to analyze global warming, how do you think our congresswoman voted?
There are hundreds and probably thousands of people that are very skilled at investigating climate change, predicting what may happen in certain regions of the country and certain regions of the planet, and they are not in the intelligence community. These people have their plate full. The threats are real. We should not diminish the threats. The information is in the public. These are two missions that do not come together.
Studying climate change can be done by other government agencies. Stealing the secrets of al Qaeda and North Korea, Iran, other parts of the world, that is the job of the intelligence community. Let them focus on the job that we need them to do. Support this amendment and strike this National Intelligence Estimate.
Really. Take a guess.
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Are there current government agencies that are handling climate change study?
There is no sense wasting data that is collected as long as no intelligence data is compromised. Not utilizing available information would not seem to be a good conservative position. This is a way to get more bang for the buck.
The real opposition for using this information may have more to do with the fear that it confirms the global warming ideas in multiple ways.
How's your resume match up with that, mr. brainiac anon 2:54?
Give me a break!
Hap hazzard they are.
To be honest i dont know how she voted for sure but,I can take a good guess....
Before long we will hear that Al Gore invented Mother Hood too.
opps off topic, sorry...
Herseth is smart, but "prestigious federal judicial clerkships" aren't proof of that. Her name got those for her. The fact that she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown would be more indicative of intelligence than the jobs she's been handed since then.
Wow, how stupid is that?
The Princess needs to stop listening to Al Gore and understand there is no consensus in the scientific community that human greenhouse gas emissions are to blame for rising temperatures.
It's amusing to watch the believers of this religion, along with the scientists who depend on government research grants, as they ramp up their rhetoric to create "a sense of urgency." They're becoming more desperate because a growing number of scientists are expressing doubts about man-made global warming, and in fact, there are indications that temperatures are beginning to cool again.
Concensus is a political word. Science does not operate by consensus, and the debate is NOT over.
It won't matter which party you are with either I doubt.
If that was to happen and the war in Irqa was still going on they would all stop and pray so it would most likely calm down at that point.
Of course, they all got to ride with the swiftboaters too.
And look what a job Bush has done bending, warping and twisting the "rules". Surprised?
Recent estimates suggest that the Bush Iraq war already costs every US family about $20,000. Hope you belivers think you got your money's worth for swallowing the lies about Gore's "lies".