Posted on 03/29/2017 7:51:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Trump issued a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that will begin to undo a slew of government efforts to fight global warming.
Among those worrying and watching to see how the executive order plays out are scientists who actually are in favor of exploring bold interventions to artificially cool the climate.
Just a year ago, some hoped that the U. S. government would start funding such research and take a leadership role. Back then, advocates for the work saw public funding as ideal, because it would foster transparency, accountability and public trust.
But now that the Trump administration is in charge, those folks have changed their views.
David Keith, a climate scientist at Harvard University who is planning to use a balloon to test putting particles in the stratosphere as early as next year, is well aware of the need to reassure the public about his small experiment.
"We are horrified by the idea that there might be some huge backlash," Keith said, "and so the questions of how to avoid that are top of our minds."
He used to want public funding, he said, partly to inspire trust. But, for now, he's happy to stick to private sources.
"I am more comfortable," Keith said, "taking money from clearly environmentally aligned philanthropies or philanthropists than I am taking money from the administration."
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mini ice ages cut the food supply. What are these people thinking? Or even better, what are they high on? It better not be smoking, because any form of combustion puts that evil CO2 in the atmosphere /sarc.
Not to mention season length is a biggie if you aren’t using a greenhouse.
There is no such thing as "Climate Engineering."
To the extent that some "scientists" may want to study it, that's great, so long as no Federal Taxpayer money is sought or utilized directly or indirectly.
Theoretically, on your on time? Study it, no problem, on your own dime.
Implementing moonbat ideas on everyone's climate? Forget about it.
That sounds wonderful! Exciting. A new dawn!
Hasn't happened in that federal swamp for 70 years, but what the hell...
Everything the federal bureaucracy supports turns to oppression, abuse and turns into total batpoop!
Transparency? What's that?
Well, this guy can buyou some land to grow trees on it to suck up the CO2. No one is going to stop him.
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