Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) thinks it’s silly to use intelligence resources to assess the national security implications of climate change, or as he calls it, the “bugs and bunnies.”

Meanwhile, Michael McConnell — the U.S. Director of National Intelligence — thinks it’s “entirely appropriate.”

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