CIA Climate Change Center Survives Funding Opposition
The Central Intelligence Agency’s plan to open the Center on Climate Change and National Security faced a setback — aka Sen. John Barrasso –earlier this week, over opposition to what the Republican Wyoming senator called “misguided defense funding priorities.” BNET Energywrote about the CIA’s new center on climate change last month, prior to Barrasso’ opposition. Here’s an update on Barrasso’ objection and the center’s ultimate survival. Barrasso proposed an amendment to the FY 2010 Defense Appropriations bill to prevent the CIA from using any funds to create or operate a center on climate change. His reasons were simple: with an agency that already claims to have scarce resources, why add another distraction to the list? Or put in a more colorful way by Barrasso, “Will…
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