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Scientists used the Medea program to study how global warming could worsen conflict. Now that project has come to an end.
Some national security experts were surprised to learn that an important component of that effort has been ended. A CIA spokesperson confirmed to Climate Desk that the agency is shuttering its main climate research program. Under the program, known as Medea, the CIA had allowed civilian scientists to access classified data—such as ocean temperature and tidal readings gathered by Navy submarines and topography data collected by spy satellites—in an effort to glean insights about how global warming could create security threats around the world.In theory, the program benefited both sides: Scientists could study environmental data that was much higher-resolution than they would normally have access to, and the CIA received research insights about climate-related threats.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/cia-closing-its-main-climate-research-program
[Medea: Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis. - Ed]
(Score: 1) by stormreaver on Tuesday May 26 2015, @11:23AM
Note that the data gathering isn't being stopped; just the sharing of that data.
Restricting important knowledge is what a government does on the road to fascism, and that it where the United States has been headed for quite some time.