Why the CIA Wants to Manipulate Global Warming
Progress very often comes with a price.
If we are not collectively learning anything else from the global warming emergency perhaps that’s the biggest lesson: The world cannot advance the way it has—seven billion people burning fossil fuels with wild abandon—without a cost.
One cost is that we have so cooked the atmosphere that even conservative estimates predict average temps will rise three to seven degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
There are several ways to respond to this global cooking. One is to ignore and party on. Another is to conserve. Another to vigorously look for options, towards renewables. Yet another is to tinker even further with technology to try and engineer our way out of the mess.
This week it was disclosed that the CIA is putting $630,000 into a geoengineering project that will study how humans are influencing weather patterns and assess ways man can try to influence weather patterns. The investment comes a year after the spy agency was forced by Congress to shutter its in-house research center on the relationship between climate change and national security.
Offloaded to the National Academy of Sciences, the program will be responsible for overseeing the first geoengineering study funded by an intelligence agency. One of the CIA’s apparent prime curiosities is trying to slow global warming by using experimental technologies ranging from simulating volcanic eruptions to pumping sulfides into the atmosphere might impact national security.
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