President Joe Biden’s national security adviser has called climate change an urgent national security priority. Yet, as the person who recently led climate analysis across the U.S. intelligence community, I speak from experience when I say U.S. intelligence agencies are not treating it like one. The House Intelligence Committee agrees, noting in a report from September 2020, “the intelligence community places insufficient emphasis on … interconnected long-term national security threats, such as infectious diseases of pandemic potential and climate change.”  During my time on the National Intelligence Council from 2017 to 2020, I saw this all too often. Existing intelligence structures … Continue reading Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the U.S. Intelligence Community