Scaring Little Children

The Washington Post reports that Republicans are in a froth about climate change. At the first meeting of Nancy Pelosi's Senate Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming , Sen. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis) questioned "why global warming has suddenly become an issue of national defense" and accused global warming realists of scaring little children.
Democrats want mandatory emissions limits and plan to send a bill to Pres. Bush before the 2008 election. As the world knows, Bush is still calling for more research (isn't almost 20 years of research and a 90% certainty by the scientists monitoring the research enough?) and voluntary measures.
The Post article quotes a national security think tank report written by a battalion of retired Army and Navy brass that warned that global warming poses a "serious threat" to U.S. national security. The report, published by The CNA Corporation, "predicted worsening terrorism and fights involving the United States over dwindling natural resources that will result from a warming of the earth."