The CIA is funding a study examining various ways mankind can geo-engineer the planet — blocking or limiting the sunlight that reaches the Earth, stripping carbon dioxide from the skies, seeding the clouds and so on.

The project, a panel called “Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts,” is backed by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA — and the U.S. intelligence community.

That’s spy-talk for the CIA, William Kearney, a spokesman for NAS, told Mother Jones.

So why would the trenchcoat troops meet with the eggheads?

“It’s natural that on a subject like climate change the Agency would work with scientists to better understand the phenomenon and its implications on national security,” Edward Price, a spokesman for the CIA, told Mother Jones. He refused to confirm the agency’s role in the study.

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