Why the CIA is spying on the changing climate
Environmental issues have long been recognized as key to understanding what might happen in unstable countries.
Last summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan, a veteran intelligence analyst watched closely from his desk at CIA headquarters just outside the capital.
For the analyst, who heads the CIA’s year old Center on Climate Change and National Security, the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history was a warning.
“It has the exact same symptoms you would see for future climate change events, and we’re expecting to see more of them,” he said later, agreeing to talk only if his name were not revealed, for security reasons.
Game, set, match. Climate Change is real. Now it’s an engineering issue, devising technology to alleviate or reverse the problem.