Posted on 03/29/2025 1:16:35 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published its 2025 Annual Threat Assessment. ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel testified at the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Sen. Angus King (I-Me) professed himself "confused by the lack of mention of what we have been told was the greatest threat for each of the previous four annual reports. Why wasn't the danger of climate change included in this year's report? Isn't climate change the major cause of mass migration, famine, and political violence?"
Gabbard answered "we're focused on the most direct threats to Americans' safety, well-being, and security that are within our power to handle. Climate change is not currently a clear threat and may never be. Neither is it something that is within our capability to significantly alter."
"Couldn't we take steps to convert to clean energy by banning coal, oil, and gas?" King asked. "Or converting to solar and wind power? Or seeding the atmosphere with sulfur to reflect sunlight away from Earth?"
"Global temperatures have swung much higher and much lower than they are currently," Gabbard explained. "Almost all of this occurred before humanity reached it current state of industrialization. Clearly, this more recent industrialization didn't cause those fluctuations. There isn't evidence that any actions we could take as humans would be able to significantly affect the current trend toward global warming. Neither is it obvious that global warming is a bad thing. Warmth from the sun is crucial to life on this planet. Finally, even if government were expected to do something about global warming it wouldn't be the intelligence community that would do it."
"Our job at the ODNI, CIA, and FBI is to assess threats posed by the enemies of our country," she emphasized. "These are the kind of threats that can be averted by understanding those enemies and taking effective actions to counter these threats by diplomacy or military means."
"Well, geniuses like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab don't agree with anything you've said," King pointed out. "Why shouldn't I trust them instead of you and Trump?"
"You might want to consider that both Schwab and Gates want to shrink the human population by 95% and strictly control the lives of those who survive the culling," Gabbard told him.
ping
Tulsi!
****Finally, even if government were expected to do something about global warming it wouldn’t be the intelligence community that would do it.”****
Her statement is wonderful, and this sentence needs to be said about a lot of the parts of our lives and institutions and agencies.
Leave the kids out of it, when I see a study saying that kids are deathly fearful of climate change I want to know who dragged them into this topic that has nothing to do with kids?
[Sen. Angus King (I-Me) ]
Is that his Party-State, or his pronouns?
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