CIA Tackles Climate Change and Its Risk to National Security
The Central Intelligence Agency — the country’s first line of defense — will add rising sea levels, desertification and population shifts caused by climate change as one more potential threat to national security. The CIA announced recently it will open the Center of Climate Change and National Security, a small unit led by senior specialists from its directorates of intelligence, and science and technology. The agency has no plans to tackle the science behind climate change. Instead it will look at the national security impact from “phenomena such as desertification.” In short, it will use its intelligence data to examine the effect environmental factors can have on the political, economic and social stability in other countries and the potential security risk…
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