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CIA closes dedicated climate change unit
• RawStory.com“As part of a broader realignment of analytic resources, this work continues to be performed by a dedicated team in a new office that looks at economic and energy matters affecting America’s national security,” said CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz.
“The mission and the resources devoted to it remain essentially unchanged.”
The Center on Climate Change and National Security was founded in 2009 under the leadership of then CIA director Leon Panetta, who now heads the Pentagon.
It was aimed at studying the security ramifications of climate-related issues such as desertification, rising sea levels, migration and competition for natural resources.