I don't want to drag this away from the topic of de-icing, but this line caught my eye:
At least in the US, this increase in directed funding started in the mid-1970s, when many other sources of non-military funding of scientific research were drying up after the end of the Apollo program.
US funding for climate change research is on the order of $8Bn. Seems like a lot, but the US has so far contributed about $2Bn to the CERN project, which they're not even members of. The total US science budget is around 40 times larger than the amount they spend on climate change research (although part of this is in the military).