CIA Quietly Closes Global Warming Unit (Center on Climate Change and National Security)

The Moral Liberal ^ | 11/26/12

[Libloather]

CIA Quietly Closes Global Warming Unit
CORRUPTION CHRONICLES

More than three years—and no doubt a chunk of change—later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is quietly shutting down its insignificant center dedicated to climate change.

That’s right; the scandal-plagued government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers operated a special unit that focused on global warming. Known as the Center on Climate Change and National Security, it was an exclusive division led by “senior specialists.” It operated under a cloak of secrecy that rejected all public-records requests, despite President Obama’s promise to run a transparent government.

When the center was launched in 2009, the CIA said it would not address the science of climate change but rather the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. The unit was touted as an important tool that would 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.

[trebb]

Maybe they decided that the GW scam was even more of a threat to National Security...

[Rocky]

They must have been caught by the fiscal cliff. I can’t imagine any other reason for halting such a worthwhile effort.

[LiberConservative]

Global warming: “The biggest scam in history.”