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Scientists Who Want To Study Climate Engineering Shun Trump
NPR ^ | March 29 2017 | by Nell Greenfieldboyce

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategate; fakescience; followthemoney; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; socialism
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1 posted on 03/29/2017 7:51:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course they will. Where does climate research money come from? What will happen to any “scientist” who actually analyzes data correctly and writes about it?

NPR is such a joke. And, of course, those loons are also sweating the fact that they just might have to actually earn a living by getting funds from folks who are willing to pay to listen to them.


2 posted on 03/29/2017 7:53:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cult Followers Who Want To Study Climate Engineering Shun Trump


3 posted on 03/29/2017 7:54:13 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Back then, advocates for the work saw public funding as ideal, because it would foster transparency, accountability and public trust.

Which, of course, it did none of.

4 posted on 03/29/2017 7:54:57 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
to fight global warming

Oh Dear, they're using that word again.

After the East Anglia were exposed, they stopped using it and went to "climate change".

Guess they think we forgot.

5 posted on 03/29/2017 7:55:58 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I am more comfortable," Keith said, "taking money from clearly environmentally aligned philanthropies or philanthropists than I am taking money from the administration."

Well you just go do that, best of luck to you.

6 posted on 03/29/2017 7:56:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obviously these bold intervention scientists do not read history or, more likely, have egis so big they cannot possibly be wrong. Look at all the examples of knowingly importing a new species into an environment to control pests. And these guys want to do another mini ice age.


7 posted on 03/29/2017 7:56:27 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate Engineering, that's a win-win and a cushy income source.

If it works: Told Ya, but we need more.
If results are questionable: We need more.
If it Fails: We need MUCH more.

8 posted on 03/29/2017 7:56:56 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a big joke and scam; research money to liberal colleges on how to cool the planet with smoke and tin foil? Go Trump.


9 posted on 03/29/2017 7:57:54 AM PDT by robert14
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10 posted on 03/29/2017 7:58:47 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I am more comfortable,” Keith said, “taking money from clearly environmentally aligned philanthropies or philanthropists than I am taking money from the administration.”

ANd the best part is that now you can be PROSECUTED AND THROWN IN PRISON for FRAUD when you Falsify your research using private investments.


11 posted on 03/29/2017 8:01:14 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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‘Cult Followers Who Want to Study Climate Engineering’ AND suck at the public trough for doing it - shun Trump. The rest of us celebrate the glorious return of some semblance of Common Sense to the government.


12 posted on 03/29/2017 8:03:02 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.

...

What happens when there is mass starvation caused by crop failures due to their artificial cooling? Do they even know what the optimum temperature is?


13 posted on 03/29/2017 8:03:05 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maine is cold enough.

If David Keith’s stupid experiment works and northern states become even colder, can we sue his a$$?


14 posted on 03/29/2017 8:04:39 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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Are these the same scientists who claim that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that needs to be regulated by the EPA?

My grades were rarely the best in class, but I'm pretty sure that biological science considers carbon dioxide to be essential to life on earth, not a pollutant.

As far as these 'settled scientists' are concerned, mocking, ridicule and public shaming are all too good for them, but we shouldn't let that stop us.

They've earned all of that and more.

15 posted on 03/29/2017 8:10:29 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Spending vast sums to develop pipe dreams for cooling the global climate when the global temperatures are in fact cooling is a colossal waste of taxpayer money. The ability for us to engineer our climate would be beyond the technology of Star Trek and as futile as King Canute commanding the tide to stop.
16 posted on 03/29/2017 8:12:47 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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saw public funding as ideal, because it would foster transparency, accountability and public trust.

Dr. Mann, what happened to the raw measurement data you processed to "prove" your temperature hockey stick graph which is the core of much of the global warming belief system? Did your dog eat it. So much for transparency, accountability and public trust.

17 posted on 03/29/2017 8:13:39 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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“scientists who actually are in favor of exploring bold interventions to artificially cool the climate”

AKA the criminally insane


18 posted on 03/29/2017 8:16:02 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time for the Liberal Private Sector to put its money where its mouth is. Invest in these kooky Climate Change developments and get rich.

Do it Libs. Do it.


19 posted on 03/29/2017 8:16:57 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Grant seeking crooks hardest hit.


20 posted on 03/29/2017 8:26:22 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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