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There's a long and informative profile of National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell in the current issue of the New Yorker, in which he makes an awfully unintelligent whopper of a comment about waterboarding: that for him, because he has a deviated septum, waterboarding might qualify as torture, but not necessarily for other people. Ouch.

But more to the point of this blog, it seems he didn't get the memo about global warming from the White House. He lets the cat out of the bag with this equally notable comment:

There are national security ramifications to global warming.

The comment may seem like a no-brainer coming from a national intelligence chief, but please notice something very important.

Those eight words uttered by the man in charge of the entire US intelligence community acknowledge that global warming is a fact; that it is a fact of great significance; of so great significance that it affects national security.