John Bolton, The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Adviser (NSA) or at times informally termed the NSC Adviser, is a senior aide in the Executive Office of the President, effective April 9, 2018.
This idiot is, with Trump and their minion William Happer an NSC senior director, now putting together a “committee”, as a National Security Council initiative that will include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts as news outlets reported in February, 2019. The White House is trying to construct a plan to challenge the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is a main driver of climate change and poses increasingly serious economic and health threats to the United States and the world.
In a truly scary April 9, 2019 morning Congressional Hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the first of two key hearings on climate change the committee held that day, publicized in a different diary this morning, Chairman Cummings, Sec. Def. Hagel and Sec. State Kerry discussed this completely insane malfeasance to harm the U.S. and world population at great length. Climate change is Climate change is real. It is happening now. 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 U.S. national security.
The House Committee on the Judiciary should hold its own hearing on what Trump has done to obstruct the strategic planning and tactical mitigation around climate chaos as part of its inquiries into the possible impeachment of Trump, and if possible the impeachment of John Bolton as well, to investigate this manifestation of the Trump Executive Branch activities that present a clear and present danger to the people of the U.S.
Please read this March 5, 2019 letter to Trump from 57 US national security leaders who offer their support to our uniformed military, civilian national security professionals, and members of the scientific community, who across the past four Administrations have found that climate change is a threat to US national security. That letter was included in the record of the Oversight Committee hearing of April 9th and during the hearing it was prominently discussed by Rep. Cummings, Sec. Kerry and Sec. Hagel. I hope you’ll watch that video of the morning hearing, the first Oversight Cmte. hearing that day.