Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate

Yet the U.S. government is ill-prepared to act on climate changes that are coming faster than anticipated and threaten to bring instability to places of U.S. national interest, interviews with several dozen current and former officials and outside experts and a review of two decades' worth of g...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune News Service
Main Authors Mead, Charles, Snider, Annie
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 10.01.2011
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Climate change
Floods
National security
United States > US
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Summary:Yet the U.S. government is ill-prepared to act on climate changes that are coming faster than anticipated and threaten to bring instability to places of U.S. national interest, interviews with several dozen current and former officials and outside experts and a review of two decades' worth of government reports indicate. In 2007, a report by retired high-ranking military officers called attention to the national security implications of climate change, and the National Intelligence Council followed a year later with an assessment on the topic.