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C.I.A. spy satellites to track climate change
Examiner ^ | January 5, 2010 | Martha

Posted on 01/05/2010 10:34:57 AM PST by usalady

Top scientists and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are collaborating in an effort to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; medea; spysatellite
The scientists involved are mostly from academia and all involved all have secret clearance. The C.I.A. runs the program and arranges for scientists to draw on federal surveillance equipment.
1 posted on 01/05/2010 10:35:01 AM PST by usalady
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To: usalady

If the CIA is involved...it must be true!!!/s


2 posted on 01/05/2010 10:35:48 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: usalady

That’s a great use of national resources...

Forget that whole ‘terrorism’ thingy

We need to have them looking at Globull Warming!


3 posted on 01/05/2010 10:36:43 AM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: usalady; mmanager; FreedomPoster; carolinablonde; bamahead; Delacon; SteamShovel; SolitaryMan; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 01/05/2010 10:36:43 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
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To: usalady
Osama bin Laden? ..who's he?

al Qaeda, What al Qaeda?

5 posted on 01/05/2010 10:37:21 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: usalady

... a much more worthy use of our national intelligence assets than, say, protecting Americans against ‘man-made disasters’.


6 posted on 01/05/2010 10:37:48 AM PST by skeeter
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To: usalady

The CIA should spend its resources looking for terrorists and not trying to justify the global warming hoax. Good Lord, where are the priorities?????


7 posted on 01/05/2010 10:39:54 AM PST by iceskater (The "public option" in government run health care means no option at all.)
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To: usalady

follow the money

some contractors and consultants are getting rich off this project, follow their connections to Congress


8 posted on 01/05/2010 10:43:02 AM PST by silverleaf
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To: usalady
Searching terrorist informants entering a CIA shop in a war zone is just toooooo tough.

So we will stick to question of controlling the weather.

9 posted on 01/05/2010 10:46:58 AM PST by roses of sharon (This is a feral government, broken from the civilizing constraints of the Constitution.)
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To: usalady
"1992 to 2001" is the operative period.

That's already in the past ~ a whole decade in the past.

It seems to me that the article is poorly written ~ or maybe the writer was simply not given enough information to figure out what's going on.

The AGW/GW thesis is that Earth toked up over the decade of the 1990s and hit peak in 1998. Then, later, non-intelligence satellites took over the job previously done by ground weather stations all over the planet and produced data dramatically different than what the AGW/GW fans had expected ~ to wit: It Ain't Heatin' Up!

So, the deal here is to go back and review data from CIA satellites for the 1992 to 2001 period to find out what was really going on.

As many of us expect, that data will show it wasn't heating up on a global scale ~ just some local stuff of peculiar interest ~ e.g. in the Arctic ocean perhaps.

The AGW/GW people expect to see full-blown global warming. They will be seriously disappointed. It didn't happen.

Besides, the CIA has to dovetail it's own data with current data to know what's really happening with the Arctic. After all, those sneaky Russians could be coming after us in rubber boats or something.

10 posted on 01/05/2010 10:47:26 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: usalady
Gee. That's really great. We have real enemies hiding out there but instead we'll use the resources, designed to look for these enemies, to search for something everyone with half a brain knows does not exist. It is little more than an analog of intensely scrutinizing people like Joan Rivers and letting Islamic Swine get on a plane with just a boarding pass check.

I would call this criminal misuse of government resources.

ML/NJ

11 posted on 01/05/2010 10:51:29 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: usalady

silly me, I ***thought*** we had a variety of weather satellites to track weather and a variety of spy satellites to track our enemies.


12 posted on 01/05/2010 10:55:14 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: usalady

Unless the CIA is going to track the activities of Al Gore Jr. and his London based company Generation Investment Management LLP, they will only be tracking the “Lack” of Climate Change.


13 posted on 01/05/2010 11:00:28 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: usalady
What next? Will the NSA record the phone calls and emails of climate change "deniers"? Now that Gitmo will soon be emptied, maybe doubters will get a trip down there until they admit, under enhanced political education techniques, that the earth is warming.
14 posted on 01/05/2010 11:04:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Gore is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. He rides an icy horse bringing cold wherever he goes.)
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To: Mr. K

Exactly... why cant NASA deal it?

Why should the CIA’s facilities and resources be reduced to meteorological studies?

Other than to further diminish the much needed resource base and redirect activities...

Oh I understand, weather will cause more suffering than terrorism///// send up some balloons. USe google earth.

CIA is CIA!


15 posted on 01/05/2010 11:08:23 AM PST by himno hero
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To: usalady

Evidence supporting “climate change” is so elusive they need to call in the CIA?


16 posted on 01/05/2010 11:11:45 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: himno hero
I would be willing to bet that the data being gathered is ancillary data that comes along with the main sensor collection capabilities of the CIA satellites. I do not think the CIA is re-tasking satellites to perform this function ... but the global warming bunch is piggybacking data that is already collected in routine surveillance.
17 posted on 01/05/2010 11:13:52 AM PST by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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To: usalady

What a great use for our national security team. Before long, we’ll know if the terrorist farts put out more carbon emmissions than ours do.


18 posted on 01/05/2010 11:41:19 AM PST by Wee-Weed Up
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To: usalady

Their plan probably to generate new database proof of warming. They’ll start the database temperature measurements with this unusually cold winter as the baseline fully knowing that temps will likely be up up up from here.


19 posted on 01/05/2010 11:45:48 AM PST by Captain Steve (I'm sick of political correctness and glorifying special interest groups.)
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To: usalady

...because they have so much free time, doncha know...


20 posted on 01/05/2010 12:01:49 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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