CIA Opens Center on Climate Change and National Security

CIA.gov ^ | Last Updated: Sep 25, 2009 11:39 AM | n/a

[Cindy]

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CIA Opens Center on Climate Change and National Security September 25, 2009

The Central Intelligence Agency is launching The Center on Climate Change and National Security as the focal point for its work on the subject. The Center is a small unit led by senior specialists from the Directorate of Intelligence and the Directorate of Science and Technology.

Its charter is not the science of climate change, but the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources. The Center will provide support to American policymakers as they negotiate, implement, and verify international agreements on environmental issues. That is something the CIA has done for years. “Decision makers need information and analysis on the effects climate change can have on security. The CIA is well positioned to deliver that intelligence,” said Director Leon Panetta.

The Center will assume responsibility for coordinating with Intelligence Community partners on the review and declassification of imagery and other data that could be of use to scientists in their own climate-related research. This effort draws on imagery and other information that is collected in any event, assisting the US scientific community without a large commitment of resources.

The new Center does more than bring together in a single place expertise on an important national security topic—the effect environmental factors can have on political, economic, and social stability overseas. It will also be aggressive in outreach to academics and think tanks working the issue. The goal is a powerful asset recognized throughout our government, and beyond, for its knowledge and insight.

Posted: Sep 25, 2009 11:19 AM Last Updated: Sep 25, 2009 11:39 AM Last Reviewed: Sep 25, 2009 11:19 AM

[oh8eleven]

[jimfree]

This is nuts.

[Tarpon]

Oba-Mao ordered them to do it ... Are you saying Oba-Mao is nuts?

[beethovenfan]

More government nose-pickers at the taxpayers’ expense.

[tired1]

Angleton was correct.

[VeniVidiVici]

Cool! Another government job where you don’t have to know anything to do it!

[andy58-in-nh]

The foxes are in the hen house.

[Paladin2]

Dear CIA.

Go plug the borders.

[robomatik]

Climate klimit
The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
ex: the dank climate of southern Wales"
2.The prevailing psychological state
ex: "the climate of opinion"

let's hope the cia goes with meaning #2 (although i doubt it).

[mia]

The Center will assume responsibility for coordinating with Intelligence Community partners on the review and declassification of imagery and other data that could be of use to scientists in their own climate-related research. This effort draws on imagery and other information that is collected in any event, assisting the US scientific community without a large commitment of resources.

Oh goody, everybody can share our secret equipment and discuss other methods of intel investigation. So cool, our government geniuses at work.

[SERKIT]

Why don’t they launch a “Manhattan Project” on Barry’s life history starting in 1960 through 2008? It would be far more interesting than Gore Bull Klimate change.

[SumProVita]

Is this a JOKE!!!????

[cranked]

More waste of taxpayer money......

[pallis]

Everyone wants in on the scam.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It is time for the U.S. taxpayers to stop paying the salaries of EVERYONE in the CIA! The CIA should not be a jobs program for Fn enviroloonies!!! This is absolutely insane.

[Tainan]

"The Central Intelligence Agency is launching The Center on Climate Change and National Security as the focal point for its work on the subject. The Center is a small unit led by senior specialists from the Directorate of Intelligence and the Directorate of Science and Technology."

Oh really?
I'd like to see the bios on this group of thumb-suckers.
I'm betting all academics and not an overnight in the field among them all.

As Mad Maxine Waters was known to say..."Somethings WRONG here!"...Larry Elder fans will know that one.

[SunkenCiv]

Its charter is not the science of climate change, but the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources.

Speaking of national security, how about working on turning the OPEC member countries into fused glass?

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!