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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Bonefish who wrote (1012801)4/24/2017 12:24:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1574387
 
"I don't think the climate scientists should be using politics to hog all the grant money. "

They aren't. Here' the list of federally funded R&D centers.
nsf.gov - Master Government List of Federally Funded R&D Centers ...

Here are the NIH grants
NIH Categorical Spending -NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting .

Some DOE grants..
Energy Department Invests $82 Million to Advanced Nuclear Technology

" it's thin science compared to other disciplines."
It's very robust, as they say. Any perceived thinning takes place only in your imagination.

Climate Science: It’s a Lot Older Than You Think

It all started in the 1820s, when a French mathematician named Joseph Fourier realized that, for the earth to be in equilibrium with the energy it was receiving from the sun every day, it should be a lot cooler than it actually is: ...


...Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist with a lively interest in many topics, from campaigning for women’s rights to filing patents for boot soles. In 1856, she wrote a paper for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reporting on her measurements of the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide. She even speculated that if, “at one period of [earth’s] history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion [of CO2] than at present, an increased temperature from its own action must necessarily have resulted” – in other words, if there were more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, then it would trap more heat, and the earth would be warmer....


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