My latest DeSmogBlog post is about recent GOP attempts to prevent the CIA and Department of Homeland Security from studying climate change risks. Clearly, this is not very smart politics for the GOP:
I cannot believe that Republicans will continue to be successful if they go down this road. For in doing so, they are putting two of their core values into opposition to one another. Republicans believe strongly in “national security," and thus are chief supporters of the military and intelligence agencies, and their big federal budgets. At the same time, the party also supports “individualism”—keeping the government from interfering with the free market, which is the lens through which Republicans generally justify their resistance to climate action. On the national security implications of climate change, however, these values are in obvious conflict--and not in a way that will look good to average Americans who are wondering about the role of global warming in various weather-related disasters.
You can read the full post here.
