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How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change

Season 11 Episode 9 | 17m 58s | CC

A few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, US spy satellite program was declassified, leading to the unexpected story of how former enemies would become scientific allies, and technology was repurposed to study the greatest threat to human civilization: Climate Change. The thumbnail for this episode includes a picture of Joe Hanson created with a text-to-image generative AI tool.

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