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U.S. intelligence tackles climate change.(Environment)
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European Affairs
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June 22, 2007
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- Treverton, Gregory F.
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When congressional Democrats mandated a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) assessing climate change's potential effect on national security, Republicans accused them of caring more about "bugs and bunnies" than hunting for al Qaeda. The effort to prevent the estimate failed, but the project is in train during 2007. But the episode did raise important questions about the role of U.S. intelligence in subjects not traditionally associated with secrets or "spook-dom." Congresswoman Jane Harman, a California Democrat and the former ranking member on the Intelligence panel, defended the idea of an estimate: "This isn't bugs or bunnies, it is survival or destruction. Droughts ...
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:LEE LANE
Congressional Testimony;
June 25, 2008 ;
787 words
......Committee on House Select Intelligence June 25, 2008 Mr. Chairman...to discuss the issues of climate change and national security. I...great significance. I regard climate change as one of the most difficult...address three points: First, climate change poses a serious ...
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OPEN LETTER ON THE PRESIDENT'S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
February 7, 2007 ;
INDSTRY GROUP 91;
787 words
...INDSTRY GROUP 91 Regulatory Intelligence Data 02-07-2007 Following...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a number of media reports...President's concern about climate change is new. In fact, climate change has been a top priority...
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:PAUL G. GAFFNEY II
Congressional Testimony;
June 25, 2008 ;
787 words
......Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management...implications of climate change and to provide...urgent by the climate change discussion. To...leveraging Defense and Intelligence data to both better...be affected by climate change phenomena and...including the ...
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Science has facts on climate change and we should listen before it's too...
Australasian Business Intelligence;
January 23, 2007 ;
262 words
......Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Critics of climate change continue to deny its severity, many...make up the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) which will release its fourth...Australian companies formed a roundtable on climate change in 2006 and conservative industry and...
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Columbia Researchers Find Climate Change May Create National Security...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
July 2, 2008 ;
787 words
......Assessment of Select Climate Change Impacts on U...the National Intelligence Council's (NIC...explores how climate change could threaten...Implications of Global Climate Change Through 2030...of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including...House and Senate ...
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A view of dangerous climate change.
Australasian Business Intelligence;
June 2, 2006 ;
151 words
......via COMTEX) -- Some scientists believe that climate change may have catastrophic consequences for humankind...in Canberra, and titled Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change , that climate change may not necessarily be gradual. There is enough...
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FACT SHEET: ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
July 8, 2005 ;
INDSTRY GROUP 91;
543 words
...INDSTRY GROUP 91 Regulatory Intelligence Data 07-08-2005 Presidential...combined goals of addressing climate change, reducing harmful air pollution...work globally to advance climate change policies that grow economies...associated with long-term climate change. G-8 Response: ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE WILL HAVE DESTABILIZING CONSEQUENCES...
Rachel's Democracy & Health News;
July 3, 2008 ;
Whitelaw, Kevin;
513 words
......Warn U.S. intelligence agencies...debate over climate change by producing...effects of climate change, but some...National Intelligence Council...But the intelligence community concluded that climate change alone is...
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U.S.: INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TESTIFIES ON RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Inter Press Service English News Wire;
June 26, 2008 ;
Jim Lobe;
787 words
......a top U.S. intelligence officer. Those...the National Intelligence Council. Fingar...still-classified new intelligence analysis of...impacts of climate change. "We assess...lawmakers. "Climate change could threaten...testimony and the intelligence ...
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:DR. THOMAS FINGAR
Congressional Testimony;
June 25, 2008 ;
787 words
......Director of National Intelligence for Analysis, Chairman National Intelligence Council Committee...House Select Intelligence June 25, 2008...Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030.`` I...Director of National Intelligence for Analysis...following a National Intelligence ...
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SCIENTISTS USE THE PAST AS A GUIDE TO FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
Regulatory Intelligence Data;
October 4, 2000 ;
INDSTRY GROUP 91;
458 words
......substantially help scientists predict future climate change, according to an international team...statistical technique to refine estimates of climate change produced by leading computer climate...Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, assembled climate change projections from climate modeling ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL SECURITY:R. JAMES WOOLSEY
Congressional Testimony;
September 27, 2007 ;
787 words
......served as Director of Central Intelligence 1993-95. I am speaking today...on national security and climate change. As the chapter`s text indicates...case of several possible climate change scenarios. In my view, in...may enhance the risk of climate change. But terrorists are ...
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:DR. KENT HUGHES BUTTS
Congressional Testimony;
June 25, 2008 ;
787 words
......planners regarding climate change, and how the intelligence and military...for the various climate change scenarios. My...issues such as climate change are excellent...endeavor. The intelligence community could...publishing an intelligence document ...
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Report links climate change, national security
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);
June 26, 2008 ;
The Associated Press;
417 words
......the U.S., intelligence agencies...exacerbated (by climate change) would increase...and a House Intelligence subcommittee. Climate change alone would...of global climate change through 2030...periodic intelligence reports that...
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:MARGARET BECKETT
Congressional Testimony;
June 25, 2008 ;
775 words
......Committee on House Select Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management June...who have spoken today, climate change is transforming the way...published just yesterday climate change is a `threat multiplier...impacts to be expected from climate change ...
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