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Posted: December 10th, 2015

By Major General (ret.) Richard Engel

Richard Engel is the Director of the Technology and Strategic Futures Program at the National Intelligence Council.   Previously, he served as the Director of the Enviornment and Natural Resources Program at the NIC and as a senior analyst with the Office of Transnational issues at the CIA.   He is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General, and was commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

The historic international conference on climate change is wrapping up in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations to reach agreement on a plan to stop global warming.  Nearly 200 nations are working on a verifiable agreement to reduce green house emissions to slow down the expected rise in temperatures and prevent severe floods, droughts, intense weather patterns as well as water and food shortages.   

Major (ret.) General Richard Engel, the former Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program for the National Intelligence Council, has studied the impacts of climate change and spoke to The Cipher Brief about what’s at stake for the U.S. and the world.

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