CIA Closes Climate Change Research Office

A division of the Central intelligence Agency formed to monitor global warming and the changes it means for national security has been disbanded.

The Center on Climate Change and national Security, which was created three years ago, was ciriticized by Republicans who charged it diverted the agency's attention from terrorism and other pressing matters, reports Business Insider.

"The CIA for several years has studied the national security implications of climate change," CIA spokesperson Todd Ebitz told Greenwire.com, which broke the story.

"This work is now performed by a dedicated team in an office that looks at a variety of economic and energy security issues affecting the United States." The Center was strongly supported by former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who is now Secretary of Defense.

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A A division of the Central Intelligence Agency formed to monitor global warming and the changes it means for national security has been disbanded.

The Center on Climate Change and National Security, which was created three years ago, was criticized by Republicans who charged it diverted the agency’s attention from terrorism and other pressing matters, reports Business Insider.

"The CIA for several years has studied the national security implications of climate change," CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz told Greenwire.com, which broke the story.

“This work is now performed by a dedicated team in an office that looks at a variety of economic and energy security issues affecting the United States."
The center was strongly supported by former CIA director Leon Panetta, who is now Secretary of Defense.

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A division of the Central Intelligence Agency formed to monitor global warming and the changes it means for national security has been disbanded.

The Center on Climate Change and National Security, which was created three years ago, was criticized by Republicans who charged it diverted the agency’s attention from terrorism and other pressing matters, reports Business Insider.

"The CIA for several years has studied the national security implications of climate change," CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz told Greenwire.com, which broke the story.

“This work is now performed by a dedicated team in an office that looks at a variety of economic and energy security issues affecting the United States."
The center was strongly supported by former CIA director Leon Panetta, who is now Secretary of Defense.

The CIA did not conduct its own scientific studies on climate change, instead relying on other government agencies and academic researchers.

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A division of the Central Intelligence Agency formed to monitor global warming and the changes it means for national security has been disbanded.

The Center on Climate Change and National Security, which was created three years ago, was criticized by Republicans who charged it diverted the agency’s attention from terrorism and other pressing matters, reports Business Insider.

"The CIA for several years has studied the national security implications of climate change," CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz told Greenwire.com, which broke the story.

“This work is now performed by a dedicated team in an office that looks at a variety of economic and energy security issues affecting the United States."
The center was strongly supported by former CIA director Leon Panetta, who is now Secretary of Defense.

The CIA did not conduct its own scientific studies on climate change, instead relying on other government agencies and academic researchers.

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We need regulation, but not this much

According to conventional progressive wisdom, regulation is the means by which a compassionate government protects the weak and innocent from the strong and malevolent.

Try telling that to Brad Jones.

Jones is one of the owners of Buckingham Slate, a Virginia business a little over an hour's drive west of Richmond. The company is distinguished by the quality of the highly valued Arvonia slate it produces. And by the fact that its roots trace back almost to the Civil War. And by the fact that federal regulators smacked it with a $4,000 fine. 

Over a trash can.

The offending can — or "waste receptacle," in the words of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's official citation — was "not covered." What's more, "the receptacle was full." It "could be smelled." There were — brace yourself — "flies fl[y]ing in and around the receptacle." And to crown all, "management engaged in aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence" by allowing this "condition to exist." The horror.        

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November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.

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The last 'Frankenstorm': Video of the 1938 nor'easter that ravaged New England

Historic footage of a deadly storm offers clues about what to expect from Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is making its presence known across the Eastern Seaboard, with powerful winds beginning to lash the coast and rain starting to pour down from North Carolina to New York. And as millions of Americans across the East Coast hunker down, some are turning to history as a guide. In 1938, for instance, a category 3 hurricane left 600 people dead in New England. During that ferocious hurricane, also known as the Yankee Clipper and the Long Island Express, the Empire State Building reportedly swayed with wind gusts, and 60 people in New York City alone were killed, says Oren Yaniv at the New York Daily News. Unlike Sandy, 1938's powerful storm came "without warning," says History.com, and "was born out a tropical cyclone that developed in the eastern Atlantic." The hurricane was expected to make landfall in Florida, but at the last minute it changed course, barreling north at more than 60 mph and gaining strength over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. It caught New England, and especially New York's Long Island, completely off guard, and amounted to "the most destructive storm to strike the region in the 20th century."

READ MORE:  http://theweek.com/article/index/235529/the-last-frankenstorm-video-of-the-1938nbspnoreasternbspthat-ravaged-new-england