Climate Change: White House Prepares to Scrutinize Intelligence Agencies’ Finding That Climate Change Threatens National Security

Feb 20, 2019 | Juliet Eilperin and Missy Ryan, Washington Post
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The White House is working to assemble a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, a conclusion that federal intelligence agencies have affirmed several times since President Trump took office. The proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Security, which would be established by executive order, is being spearheaded by William Happer, a National Security Council senior director. Happer, an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton University, has said that carbon emissions linked to climate change should be viewed as an asset rather than a pollutant.