The American Meteorological Society this week endorsed federal funding of geoengineering — that is, the Society believes that taxpayers should support surplus, unemployable, over-educated madmen willing to research how best to blot out the sun and implement other bizarre schemes in hopes of slowing climate change. Our only question is where the giant rubber-room research facility will be constructed.
Perhaps they should be colocated with a school of Business and Economics, where their proposals could be studied for a cost-benefit analysis by hungry MBA candidates.