U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings

Report looking out to 2030 cites danger of water, food shortages

A U.S. intelligence report coming out Thursday

The overall theme of the report is that the United States will have less influence across the globe at a time of growing climate, water and energy stresses, Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy director of national intelligence, indicated in recent weeks.

Within two decades, the report predicts, already sensitive areas from northern China to sub-Saharan Africa will have to deal with more droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water.

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