Climate Change’s Perfect Storm

James Carafano / September 14, 2009

The Los Angles Times did something The New York Times shamelessly did not. The “times” on the left-leaning West Coast at lease admitted that all the recent hub-hub linking national security to global warming is all about politics as usual in Washington, DC. “It’s a deliberate, anxiety-themed effort,” the paper reported, “to press a handful of fence-sitting moderates to support a [Waxman-Markey] bill that will probably be the administration’s next great legislative push after health care.” That admission is certainly more than the Big Apple paper acknowledged when it shamelessly ran a similar story on the impact of climate change on national security a few weeks ago. At least the LA Times gave some inches to both sides of the story, even citing research from The Heritage Foundation.

The truth is regardless of which side of the argument you come down on regarding how shifting weather will affect us, the Waxman-Markey “Cap and Trade” Bill is a really bad idea….because it will completely undermine our ability to deal with future national security threats. (more…)