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How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change
Season 11
Episode 9
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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