At her confirmation hearing for secretary of state yesterday, Hillary Clinton touched on the “unambiguous security threat” of climate change:

Many significant problems we face challenge not just the United States, but all nations and peoples. You, Mr. Chairman, were among the first, in a growing chorus from both parties, to recognize that climate change is an unambiguous security threat. At the extreme it threatens our very existence, but well before that point, it could very well incite new wars of an old kind?over basic resources like food, water, and arable land. The world is in need of an urgent, coordinated response to climate change and, as President- Elect Obama has said, America must be a leader in developing and implementing it.

It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a liberal politician calls climate change a security threat. I guess that’s why such advocates are called alarmists.

Writing in today’s American Spectator Online, George Neumayr hints at the dire implications for freedom under the climate-change regime, and the final quote is especially salient (emphasis mine):

Stocking his administration with global warming activists, Obama senses that this issue could give full range to his ambitions. It is certainly an issue which lends itself to the apocalyptic rhetoric that surrounds him — that he, as the liberal columnist Mark Morford once put it, could “actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet.”

While Hillary Clinton may not want to feed those ambitions, she does see global warming alarmism as a path to ideological ones. Christine Stewart, the former Canadian Minister of the Environment, would have understood Hillary’s game in calling global warming an “unambiguous security threat.”

“No matter if the science is phony, there are collateral environmental benefits,” Stewart has said. “Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

So even if the science is junk, we don’t care. The end result — “justice and equality” (i.e., control over people) — is worth it.