Why Is the CIA Keeping Climate Change Data Secret?

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The Central Intelligence Agency is working on climate change, but you'd never know it. David Biello reports
October 23, 2011 | 31

Climate change is hard to hide, but the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is trying anyway.

Back in 2009, the CIA established a Center on Climate Change and National Security dedicated to researching the implications of rising sea levels, declining agricultural yields and other climate change impacts.

A National Security Archive historian asked the CIA for a copy of any impact studies or reports the center has done in March 2010. But the CIA responded (pdf) this September that such material is quote "currently and properly classified and must be denied in its entirety."

The CIA claims to be concerned about the "protection of intelligence sources and methods, names, official titles, salaries, and numbers of personnel."

But is it a secret that satellites and ground observations show a meltdown in Arctic sea ice that will open new shipping lanes—and security concerns—for the first time in recorded history? To take just one example.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=why-is-the-cia-keeping-climate-chan-11-10-23

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1. IMO the US has always been concerned about panic if the masses knew the

real truth about things. In many ways IMO in that respect it's a real nanny state.

[glinda]

2. That is the main reason I suspect. That and keeping friends in business with oil, gas, etc.... maybe

they think it is a lost cause. I do unless we have a major major catharsis.

[RKP5637]

3. Sadly, there is so much greed and selfishness in this country anymore that

IMO some of these guys will ride the country right to the bottom if making a buck.