What does climate change have to do with spying? The obvious answer is almost nothing. However, back in 2009, under the Obama administration, the National Intelligence Estimate first began including “climate change” in its list of threats to U.S. interests.

The injection of climate change into American policy was clearly a political agenda-driven move by the Obama administration and justified under the dubious guise of a scientific consensus that never existed.

To further this guise of a scientific consensus, the Obama administration pushed its climate change dogma into all facets of government. Hence, the national intelligence community had to include the bogus notion of climate change as a threat to national security, as if the U.S. could act in any realistic way to change or mitigate it.

Thankfully, though, the practice of listing climate change among the threats facing the U.S. changed this week, as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declined to include it in her annual threat assessment report.

Like clockwork, its absence was noted during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing this week. “Every single one of these reports that we have had has mentioned global climate change as a significant national security threat, except this one,” huffed Maine Senator Angus King. “Has global climate change been solved? Why is that not in this report? And who made the decision that it should not be in the report when it’s been in every one of the 11 prior reports?”

Gabbard responded that the report was “focused very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national security." She said that the intelligence community has long been aware of environmental concerns, adding, "What I focused this annual threat assessment on, and the IC focused this threat assessment on, are the most extreme and critical direct threats to our national security.”

Exactly. The intelligence community’s mission should be focused on foreign threats from geopolitical foes, not global climatic changes. Gabbard is not heading the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Trump administration has also been scrubbing the Left’s climate cult dogma from federal agencies, albeit more quietly than it has with DEI.

Recognizing the impact of climate and environmental events, such as earthquakes and wildfires, and how they may contribute to actions nations may take is not the same thing as preaching climate dogma. But the climate cultists seemingly can’t bear to have anyone challenge their dogma or even question whether climate change is an actual threat.

The truth is that the climate change narrative is one of the manipulative tools globalists have used to push their governmental and economic agendas. Donald Trump was elected on an America First agenda that doesn’t bow to the globalist climate cult.

It is a welcome sight to see government officials like Gabbard stop kowtowing to a bogus narrative.