Attaching object to Node.js process

I am using the environment variable and arguments parsing module called nconf for my node.js Express web server.

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I decided that the best way to make the nconf data global was to simply attach it to the process variable (as in process.env), is this a good idea or bad idea? Will it slow down execution in weighing down "process"?

Here is my code:

var nconf = require('nconf');

nconf.argv()
    .env()
    .file({ file: './config/config.json' });

nconf.defaults({
    'http': {
        'port': 3000
    }
});

process.nconf = nconf;

//now I can retrieve config settings anywhere like so process.nconf.get('key');

frankly, I kind of like this solution. Now I can retrieve the config data anywhere, without having to require a module. But there may be downsides to this...and it could quite possibly be a very bad idea. IDK.