But to get around European employment law, the grant incentives are dressedup as a reward for sides providing video analysis of potential England players in county action.
These are investment accounts that look suspiciously similar to plain old mutual funds but, dressedup as a form of life insurance, get certain tax benefits.
He dressed the funding proposal up in geoengineering language because that was the way to get funds - a tactic scientists in all fields have used down the years in order to ensure their research happens (witness the boom in "bioterror"-related research after the US anthrax scares of 2001).