Does studying science make you a better person?

[AikidoSoul]

91. And some super bad shit too. Edward Teller, "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" is also a designer

of what are sometimes referred to as "chemtrails" (MANY people on DU don't think they exist...but keep your mind open and read Teller's own paper and article on that very topic below). He was RayGun's favorite scientist... probably because he was a strong supporter of his "Star Wars" agenda.
I think Teller was an exceptionally arrogant sociopath!



RE: "Chemtrails": In 1998 he wrote article for Hoover Institution where he was a fellow. It was originally called "Sunscreen for Planet Earth" but appeared later in the Wall St. Journal called under the title "The Planet Needs a Sunscreen." The idea was to reduce carbon's heat impact upon the earth by putting dumping particles such as aluminum oxide and other types, into the upper atmosphere.

Though he organized a science conference on this topic in 1997 in Erice, Italy, he would not admit publicly that global warming existed. He was very cagey about this. He didn't want to anger his political / economic supporters. When referring to global warming he would only say that "if it exists" one could mitigate the problem by releasing "small particles" into the atmosphere and that heat would be reflected back into the sky, and that the earth's temperature could be reduced by a small percentage as follows:

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"Sunscreen for Planet Earth"

http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6791

EDWARD TELLER
Sunscreen for Planet Earth

GLOBAL WARMING IS TOO SERIOUS TO BE LEFT TO THE POLITICIANS. HEREWITH A SCIENTIFIC SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM. (IF THERE IS A PROBLEM, THAT IS.)

Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming--the jury is still out. As a scientist, I must stand silent on this issue until it's resolved scientifically. As a citizen, however, I can tell you that I'm entertained by the high political theater that the nation's politicians have engaged in over the last few months. It's wonderful to think that the world is so very wealthy that a single nation--America--can consider spending $100 billion or so each year to address a problem that may not exist--and that, if it does exist, certainly has unknown dimensions.

SNIP.......

In 1979, physicist Freeman Dyson, in his characteristically prescient manner, proposed the deliberate, large-scale introduction of such fine particles into the upper atmosphere to offset global warming, which he thought even then would eventually become a human concern. Some of my colleagues and I have recently surveyed the current technological prospects for such an introduction. We estimated the costs involved and presented our results last August at the Twenty-second International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies. The most expensive such "geoengineering" option appears to be the one long ago proposed by Mr. Dyson, which may cost as much as $1 billion a year. More technologically advanced options along the same lines might cost $100 million.

SNIP

Yet if the politics of global warming require that "something must be done" while we still don't know whether anything really needs to be done--let alone what exactly--let us play to our uniquely American strengths in innovation and technology to offset any global warming by the least costly means possible. While scientists continue research into any global climatic effects of greenhouse gases, we ought to study ways to offset any possible ill effects.

Injecting sunlight-scattering particles into the stratosphere appears to be a promising approach. Why not do that?

Reprinted from the Wall Street Journal, October 17, 1997, from an article titled "The Planet Needs a Sunscreen." Used with permission. C 1997 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

Also available from the Hoover Press is the Essay in Public Policy Environmental Fundamentalism, by Thomas Gale Moore. To order, call 800-935-2882.

Edward Teller was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

His ideas on this topic were later badly reported by CBS News:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/15/archive/main264362.shtml

Teller co-authored a white paper with two other scientists on the topic of "scattering" particles into the atmosphere. No part of the paper can be quoted according to the authors, so to read any of it you have to go to the full paper accessed here in pdf file format:

http://rense.com/general18/scatteringEdTellerwithnotes.pdf



"Mad Scientist" gets a much deeper meaning when I think about Edward Teller.

True horrors can be created by such a mind. I would not describe Teller as a "good person"! So....noooooo..... studying science doesn't necessarily make you a better person.