Posted on May 22, 2015
CIA shuts down climate research program days after Obama links climate change to national security. Mixed message?
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The Central Intelligence Agency is shutting down a research program that offered classified data to scientists to examine the link between climate change and global security threats.
A CIA spokesman confirmed that the agency had ended its MEDEA program, a 1990s-era intelligence program restarted in 2010 under President Obama. The collaboration gave scientists access to intelligence assets like satellite data to study climate change and inform on how its impacts could inflame conflicts.
The announcement comes just days after President Obama said climate change was a "serious threat to global security" in a commencement address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Climate change, Obama said, "will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act, and we need to act now."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cia-shuts-down-climate-research-program/ar-BBk6lK9
A CIA spokesman confirmed that the agency had ended its MEDEA program, a 1990s-era intelligence program restarted in 2010 under President Obama. The collaboration gave scientists access to intelligence assets like satellite data to study climate change and inform on how its impacts could inflame conflicts.
The announcement comes just days after President Obama said climate change was a "serious threat to global security" in a commencement address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Climate change, Obama said, "will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act, and we need to act now."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cia-shuts-down-climate-research-program/ar-BBk6lK9
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I am offended by the jerkwads who have no real understanding of the various processes and who also confuse the topics like pollution and mankind's roles. And God forbid you disagree with them because they do not want to hear it!
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There are things that contradict their notions and most of the time they are political. End of story.
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Well when facts are contradictory to government policy, trust the government.
Ask any native American
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