Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence - MR Online
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When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

Rod Schoonover, a former US intelligence official at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and former chair of the National Intelligence Council, said the UK assessment “should be lauded” for its focus on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. (Photo by Svein Sund on Unsplash)

When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

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