Earth Equity News

Wyoming Rep. Barrasso Tries to Block Funding for CIA Climate Center. By John M. Broder, NYTimes, October 6, 2009. "Senator John Barrasso, a conservative freshman Republican from Wyoming, said on Tuesday that he would try to stop the Central Intelligence Agency from opening a new climate change center by choking off its funding. 'The C.I.A. is responsible for gathering foreign intelligence information for the United States,' Mr. Barrasso said in announcing an amendment to a 2010 spending bill to block any money being spent by the agency on the new office. 'I don't believe creating a center on climate change is going to prevent terrorist attacks.' The agency announced last month that it was creating a Center on Climate Change and National Security to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities."