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Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department, stated that the agency continues to evaluate and expand our ability to prioritize the climate crisis.Eight climate change specialists from the Army Corps of Engineers have been hired by the Defense Department; Mr. Biden's budget calls to hire 17 more.Richard Kidd, deputy secretary of defense for energy environment and resilience said that the impacts of climate change are evident and growing. This is why we need a work force that recognizes this fact.It will take time for intelligence agencies to ramp up and be ready to present risk assessments to President Trump regarding climate change. Erin Sikorsky, Erin Sikorsky's lead on climate and national security analysis in federal intelligence agencies, stated that.You have to find new employees; you need to train people how to incorporate this into their daily work, stated Ms. Sikorsky. She is now the deputy director at the Center for Climate & Security in Washington. This is not something you can do in a matter of hours.Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service and chief executive officer, stated that the Biden administration should focus on modernizing the recruitment process and improving the human resource departments.It's not a straightforward story. The previous administration was anti-science, and the current administration supports science so everything will be fine, Mr. Steir stated. There is no law that can fix everything.