The U.S. intelligence community has completed an assessment of the national security implications of global climate change designed to give defense and diplomatic policymakers "actionable" information on how changing weather patterns could contribute to political instability around the world, the collapse of governments and the creation of terrorist safe havens. Key findings of the previously unreported classified national intelligence assessment -- which is dated June 2008 and reflects the consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies -- are being...
