The New York Times’ William J. Broad has an interesting report about climate scientists utilizing CIA spy equipment to study climate change. The program was around during the Bill Clinton administration but shut down during the Bush administration. The jist seems to be that when CIA sensors are idling, scientists can use them to explore natural phenomena.

The one snafu with CIA-run global warming studies is that the information cannot be easily shared. For example, the use of this information seemingly cannot be used to, say, persuade more U.S. Senators and voters about the realness of global warming. Instead, climate scientists (who are mainly culled from academia by the National Academy of Sciences) have been hired by the federal government to learn more about a problem that the federal government has yet to seriously confront via environmental regulation.

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