It escapes me how a group of educated scholars could think going to another country and meddle with the nature and weather there would be in any way acceptable,

It escapes me how a group of educated scholars could think going to another country and meddle with the nature and weather there would be in any way acceptable, let alone all the risks that the Saami actually and correctly called out. I think that’s utterly ridiculous and only topped by “The group said it has begun a public engagement process to ‘help the committee understand Swedish and Indigenous perspectives [...]” As in they actually needed HELP in understanding that someone else lives where they were going to run their experiment. I can think of a couple of “interesting” scenarios that come up when “party A spreads stuff in the sky over party B without telling them first”. Many of them involve unfriendly conversations.