Those squeamish about anything that smacks of geoengineering-in other words, technology intended to change the world's climate in ways that oppose global warming-view artificial upwelling with scepticism.
For all his scepticism, Mr Camara performed with her in the national marionette troupe in the 1990s, when urban companies educated Malians on subjects such as HIV and child labour.
Underestimating China's economy is hardly a new phenomenon. Since 1995 China's share of world GDP at market prices has risen from 2% to 16%, despite waves of Western scepticism.
The hope is that the imprimatur of such outfits, along with that of respected senators from the left and right, should secure the bill's passage despite intense scepticism—on the right in particular.
If, as seems likely, his promised renegotiation turns out to be much less transformative of Britain's relationship with Brussels than the prime minister suggests it will be, that scepticism might seem to be justified.