Now that’s $18M down the black hole on a fool’s errand.
Al Gore runs the Climate Reality Project. I wonder how much of that $18 billion will go to him.
Maybe someday the people will get enough and some heads will be on pikes.
If I had $18 million to blow on building computer models, I’d fund two: a model that tests the economic and quality of life effects of increases in taxes and regulation, and a nice civil war game to practice which strategies and tactics work best for Americans to cut off and contain the unarmed city slicker communists. I’d distribute free copies of that to every gun owner, soldier, and militia member. It’s nice how ‘rats always pack themselves into nice tight disease ridden urban nests. It makes them easier to eradicate.
It's not that predicting climate change is impossible.
It's just that, when you base your models on a wrong theory ("CO2 is the dominant factor affecting temperatures"), they will inevitably give wrong answers.