How the CIA Secretly Surveilled Climate Change

Cold War… warming planet? We’re on PATREON! ►► Support us: https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ A few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a top-secret, first-of-its-kind US spy satellite program was declassified, leading to the unexpected story of how former enemies became scientific allies, and technology invented for Cold War espionage was repurposed to study and combat the newest and greatest threat to human civilization: Climate Change. Thank you to the following for help in researching this video: Michael McElroy D. James Baker The Office of Vice President Al Gore 0:00 Peeking behind the Iron Curtain 1:52 Spies in space 2:53 A time machine… but for Earth 3:41 Early days of the Space Race 5:37 Code name: CORONA 8:37 No more Iron Curtain… now what? 10:48 Spies… but for the Earth 13:20 New data & unlikely allies 16:31 Teamwork makes the dream work 17:46 Support us on Patreon! Note: The thumbnail for this episode includes a picture of Joe Hanson created with a text-to-image generative AI tool SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ----------- High fives to all our Brain Trust Patrons: Holly, Brett, and Ashe Bullion Jaap Westera Millennial Glacier Mark Littlehale Mehdi Damou Barbora Bei Burt Humburg dani bowman David Johnston Salih Arslan Baerbel Winkler Robert Young Eric Meer Dustin Karen Haskell Join us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart Twitter http://www.twitter.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram http://www.instagram.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merch https://store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smart Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/ This episode of Be Smart is licensed exclusively to YouTube.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices