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Trump Anti-Science Climate Panel Will Harm Security: Ex-Generals Warn

"Generals, admirals and other national security officials sent a letter to President Trump."

"More than four dozen former military and intelligence officials are rebuking President Trump for planning to counter the government’s own findings that climate change poses a threat to national security — warning that it’s “dangerous to have national security analysis conform to politics.”

The 58 former generals, admirals and other national security officials sent a letter to Trump on Tuesday objecting to the idea of a White House panel to “dispute and undermine military and intelligence judgments on the threat posed by climate change.”

“Imposing a political test on reports issued by the science agencies, and forcing a blind spot onto the national security assessments that depend on them, will erode our national security,” the letter states. “It is dangerous to have national security analysis conform to politics.”"

Dino Grandoni reports for the Washington Post March 5, 2019.

Source: Washington Post, 03/06/2019