CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate

MikeChino writes "The CIA has just joined up with climate researchers to re-launch a data-sharing initiative that will use spy satellites and other CIA asets to help scientists figure out what climate change is doing to cloud cover, forests, deserts, and more. The collaboration is an extension of the Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis program, which President Bush canceled in 2001, and it will use reconnaissance satellites to track ice floes moving through the Arctic basin, creating data that could be used for ice forecasts." Even though the program is "basically free" in terms of CIA involvement, the Times notes: "Controversy has often dogged the use of federal intelligence gear for environmental monitoring. In October, days after the CIA opened a small unit to assess the security implications of climate change, Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said the agency should be fighting terrorists, 'not spying on sea lions.'"

Comments

Re:Climate change is a security threat

[ArcherB]

Seeing as how the scientific consensus is that there is a link between CO2 and global warming, YOU are the one who needs to prove there isn't one (and I seriously doubt you can show me any good evidence that there ISN'T a link, as 'a definite link' is what the facts show.)

You can't prove a negative. I thought you'd be smart enough to know that. Do you really need someone to post the link of the thousands of scientists who are not part of the consensus? Were you not paying attention when the emails were released trying to shut those scientists out of journals?

You really shouldn't accuse someone else of ignoring the evidence when you obviously have no problem ignoring it yourself.

http://www.petitionproject.org/

There! I disproved your "consensus". Now PROVE that AGW is real.

Re:Deniers

[joocemann]

Wow. You cannot have possibly read the message you replied to!

It is clear to me that he used logic and evidence to make his point.

And then you basically just spout more 'I don't belive it'...

I'll do you the same:

It doesn't matter how or why or what you say. You are wrong.

It doesn't matter if what you said makes any sense, Its fraudulent! I SAID SO!

The whole tone of your post twists plain facts means that you cannot be taken seriously.
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Now what?

If you knew anything you were talking about you wouldn't say stupid shit like "it doesn't matter". Guess what, the educated people say it DOES and you are NOT qualified in any way to be trusted when you say it doesn't.

I'm sick of hearing the opinionated layman spew his dogshit opinion about something far too complex for he/she to even understand, let alone have a valid theory about.