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Maybe you are being glib. If not then that's how basically all science works, someone gets money or creates a space to study something seemingly innocuous and weird that probably goes nowhere or makes something curious but with no real world use. Then 5 years later another scientist comes across it by random and realises it's exactly what they need to finish a new prototype of particle accelerator.
And yeah they've told us how to stop climate change but 20 quid ryanair flights, PS5s and same day Amazon deliveries are quite handy so sorry future generations 🤷
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they've told us how to stop climate change
This is what's known as a category error. Science has a model of which changes in human action would alter the extent of anthropogenic climate change, but how we deal with climate change is a political question. You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.
As of some someone is throwing money at that.
Isn’t it time the worlds scientists start putting their heads together to solve climate change rather than dicking about with dead birds