NETL (National Energy Technology Laboratory) is an energy research lab organized within the Department of Energy. If what I found on their website is fair representation of their work product, it seems they spend a good chunk of their $9 billion budget
searching for magical creatures.
Squandering billions on wasteful vanity projects and junk science like carbon capture and sequestration is bad. Very bad.
I mean it's very, very, bad.
But it may not be their most egregious offense.
Scroll down to the midpoint of
NETL's FAQ for Climate Change.
Here’s the text:
Why is there so much uncertainty surrounding global climate change?
The global climate is a massive and highly complex system with numerous interrelated subsystems. Evidence indicates that there have been times in Earth’s history when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have been higher and lower than it is today, but it is hard to separate the causes and effects of those situations, and the data from those time periods are limited and imprecise.
One important cause of uncertainty in the area of global climate science lies in feedback loops. For example, the warmer the planet becomes, the more water is evaporated from the oceans making more clouds, which trap still more heat. Another example, at higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations plants may grow faster and consume more carbon dioxide. Different modelers judge different feedbacks to be more important, and the spiraling effects can lead to markedly different predictions in the earth’s climate.
It's been nearly five years since the last president picked up his toys and went home, but it appears he crapped in a few corners before he left.* Can we get it cleaned up? Please?
I hasten to note that other pages of NETL web-site clearly establish a pattern of regular maintenance. That makes it a lot more difficult to excuse this oversight. The place is nine billion dollar sinkhole that, ostensibly, funds research projects designed to mitigate the anthropocentric contributions to climate change.
Nine billion dollars?! To a technology lab?
And they can't fix a webpage?
(Don't even get me started on sequester priorities.)
*I'm working under the assumption that this wasn't posted by Chu's crew.