I think funding of the Robock, Toon Turco research group was a mistake and little was gained from the research outputs of the funding, which was more of the same.
Do you have any guesses for why Open Phil and FLI funded Alan Robock’s and Brian Toon’s teams despite concerns around their past research?
I think it would be good if someone funded a physicist not associated with them to do an in-depth review of the topic.
For reference, a team of physicists (Wagman 2020) found a significantly shorter soot lifetime (BC below stands for black carbon, i.e. soot):
Thanks for sharing your view on this, John!
Do you have any guesses for why Open Phil and FLI funded Alan Robock’s and Brian Toon’s teams despite concerns around their past research?
For reference, a team of physicists (Wagman 2020) found a significantly shorter soot lifetime (BC below stands for black carbon, i.e. soot):