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Article: Climate Change Will Have Destabilizing Consequences, Intelligence Agencies Warn; The classified study looks at the national security implications of global warming.(National Intelligence Council)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- June 25, 2008
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Byline: Kevin Whitelaw
U.S. intelligence agencies usually work hard to stay outside the political fray, but this week they waded firmly into the debate over climate change by producing an unsettling assessment of the national security implications (http://www.dni.gov/testimonies/20080625_testimony.pdf)of changing weather patterns.
"We assess that no country will be immune to the effects of climate change, but some will be able to cope more effectively than others," says Thomas Fingar (http://www.dni.gov/fingar_bio.htm), who heads the National Intelligence Council (http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html), which drafted the assessment, adding that sub-Saharan Africa, the ...
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