Via Gristmill.
Senate Foreign Relations Testimony on the grave threat to our nation’s security posed by global warming:
- Admiral Joseph W. Prueher (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command and Former Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China;
- General Charles F. Wald (PDF), USAF (Ret.), Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; and
- Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of the Naval Space Command.
Memo to conservative global warming deniers: Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) asserts in his opening statement (PDF), “To adequately prepare our security and diplomatic forces for future threats, we need to understand how climate change might be a source of war and instability.”
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