Boxer: Climate Change Bigger Threat Than Terrorism

Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change -- not terrorism, nuclear weapons or Islamic radicalism -- will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades.

The comment was apparently based on reports and studies over the past few years that have linked climate change to other security issues, according to Fox News.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., Boxer's Republican counterpart on the environment committee she chairs and arguably the most outspoken global warming skeptic in Congress, decried the warning on Tuesday as a bogus ploy to win support for a sweeping energy regulation bill.

"We know global warming alarmists frequently use scare tactics to push the U.S. to pass costly cap-and-trade legislation. But to say that carbon emissions will be the leading cause of conflict in the next 20 years represents a new low in alarmist propaganda," Inhofe, ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a written statement to FoxNews.com.

"Given the tremendous security challenges confronting our nation today -- from Iran, North Korea, Islamic extremism and much else -- Senator Boxer's statement seems a bit out of touch. I would hope that she simply misspoke."

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