Joint Hearing on the National Security Implications of Global Warming

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and House Intelligence Community Management (ICM) Subcommittee held a joint hearing today on the “National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.” The prepared statements of the witnesses have now been posted and are available at http://globalwarming.house.gov/pubs/pubs?id=0046#main_content

The point of the hearing was to hear and discuss the results of the first-ever U.S. Government analysis of the security threats posed by global warming.

OPENING STATEMENT: Chairman Edward J. Markey, Select Committee

WITNESSES:
PANEL ONE

Dr. Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy

PANEL TWO

Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, MP, Former Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom
VADM Paul Gaffney, President, Monmouth University and Former President, National Defense University
Dr. Kent Hughes Butts, Professor of Political-Military Strategy, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College
Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Lee Lane, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute