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CIA in the fight against global warming

04.08.2013

The US Central Intelligence Agency is studying several projects that can reverse or at least slow down the negative processes of global warming. But so far, there are many questions about the participation of intelligence officers in potentially destructive activities.

American intelligence officers, together with NASA and specialists from the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), launched a project to study several options for geoengineering intervention in the global climate of the planet in order to reduce or "cancel" the dangerous side effects of the technogenic activities of our civilization. Apparently, the involvement of the CIA means that the US government is seriously concerned that global warming could adversely affect international security, including the national security of the United States itself. In particular, in some regions, ice and snow cover may melt, which can lead to conflicts over new territories and sea routes. First of all, this concerns Russia and Canada. Also, wars and humanitarian crises can start because some large regions receive more rainfall and others less.

Geoengineering is an activity aimed at changing the climate of the entire planet or a vast region. The current NAS project has no such plans, at least not yet, but scientists and the CIA will spend $630 and 000 months studying options for such an impact on the planet. In particular, we mean options with the release of particles into the atmosphere that reflect sunlight or the creation of installations that absorb excess carbon dioxide. In addition to studying ways to combat global warming, the aim of the project is to assess the possible negative consequences of global warming.

It should be noted that earlier the CIA was already interested in the problem of global warming and even had a research center dealing with this problem. However, the center was closed last year by members of the US Congress who objected to the involvement of intelligence officers in such activities. It is not yet known how American politicians will react to the new CIA initiative, and whether individuals, public organizations and the media will be interested in this issue.

It should be noted that the US military and intelligence agencies have the greatest experience in climate change. In particular, during the Vietnam War, the US Air Force, in accordance with the plan of the CIA, not without success, caused heavy rains that washed away the guerrilla trails. Recently, many more large-scale geoengineering projects have appeared. For example, it is proposed to sow part of the ocean off the coast of Canada with plankton, which will "suck" carbon dioxide from the air.

Unfortunately, it is still difficult to assess the consequences of such serious interventions in the climate and the probability of causing an ecological catastrophe is high. A case is already known when businessman Russ George from California, secretly from the world community and by deceiving local residents, poured "feeding" for plankton into the Pacific Ocean - 110 tons of ferrous sulfate. According to him, this led to the blooming of plankton on an area of 10 thousand square meters. km. While the consequences of this unauthorized experiment are being studied (only a year has passed), scientists fear that irreparable damage may be caused to the nearby richest ecosystem of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

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