A Democratic-aligned senator pushed back this week on the intelligence community’s removal of climate change from their yearly report on global threats.
At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, questioned Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on why climate change was missing from the annual threat assessment, released this week.
The document was the first in more than a decade in which climate change was absent, King said. The shift indicated that the new intelligence regime, appointed by President Donald Trump, was deemphasizing climate as a threat.
King warned that in ignoring climate change, the intelligence community might overlook climate impacts on mass migration, famine and political violence.
