Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The university choices faced by my fellow Queenslanders leave much to be desired if you want to avoid being indoctrinated to global warming mantras. Here is a rundown of choices.
My native Australia prides itself on the quality of its educational offerings. We have a range of fascinating options for students seeking a higher education.
If you like living and studying in the sunshine, the premier University in Queensland is The University of Queensland, which supports scientists like John Cook, who produced the infamous 97% climate consensus survey, which you aren’t allowed to examine in detail.
If University of Queensland is not quite your thing, you could elect to attend James Cook University, which recently ejected Bob Carter, even taking away his library pass. http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/jcu-caves-in-to-badgering-and-groupthink-blackballs-politically-incorrect-bob-carter/
If you want to be educated in Sydney, home of the year 2000 Summer Olympics, your choice might be Macquarie University, which recently terminated skeptic Murry Salby, under some in my opinion rather strange circumstances – stranding Salby in Paris, after holding a meeting in his abscence. http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/murry-salby-responds-to-the-attacks-on-his-record/
If Macquarie is not quite to your taste, but you like New South Wales, you could try the University of New South Wales, home of the Ship of Fools. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/22/spiritofmawson-ship-of-fools-apologize-for-mess-face-recovery-costs/
Of course, if you set your sights on the very pinnacle of Australian academia, you could try the Australian National University, whose director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science recently demanded we should ignore the facts when it comes to climate science. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/15/australian-national-university-forget-the-climate-facts-we-need-opinions/
If you fancy the cooler Mediterranean climate of Australia’s southern coast, Melbourne University might be your choice – the Melbourne University which hosted to the Gergis study, $300,000 worth of effort which lasted 3 weeks before it had to be pulled due to a major flaw. http://joannenova.com.au/2012/06/300000-dollars-and-three-years-to-produce-a-paper-that-lasted-three-weeks-gergis/
If none of these Universities meet your requirements, you could go West, and try the University of West Australia, former home of our old friend Lewandowsky. UWA’s vice chancellor recently refused to release data to McIntyre, because he didn’t like McIntyre or something. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/03/a-stunning-revelation-from-a-uwa-vice-chancellor-paul-johnson-over-access-to-lewandowsky-poll-data/
So, which Australian university would you choose for your kids?
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UTAS
Hooray for google, which let me look up UTAS in one minute. Appeals to me so far 🙂
What about Adelaide?
“UTAS”
They could study here:
http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/
University of Central Queensland in beautiful Rockhampton.
Charles Sturt University
Uhm uhm uhm……
I had this problem, or at least my son did (it really being his choice where he goes). He ended up with the Ship of Fools University, which is probably the least worst choice these days. I suggested the James Cook University in Cairns, based on the premise that the hotter it is, the less clothes the female students wear. Perhaps I was just harking back to my own main areas of interest at his age…
Australia is an amazing and beautiful country but its population is very vulnerable to Global Warming propaganda for a number of fairly obvious reasons.
Google ‘World’s top 20 deserts’ and you’ll find two of them in Australia; the Simpson and the Great Sandy deserts. Next time you hear of a ‘heatwave’ scare coming from Australia bear in mind that the ‘scientists’ here have taken to incorporating temperature data from the heart of these deserts into their overall climate picture. Given that there are two major cities on the fringes of semi arid zones; Perth and Adelaide it is not hard to scare people into believing that their situation is precarious…and to make matters worse these are coastal cities threatened by sea level rise on the one hand and desertification on the other.
Now factor in that the vast majority of Australians live in cities and suburbs. Yes, in this vast continent 90 percent of the population spend their time in cars with the AC on crawling along urban and suburban highways between home and workplace. On a hot afternoon in a traffic jam on the edge of a baking city with the haze of a nearby bush-fire hanging in the air….anyone would be vulnerable to the message that the world is overheating.
Finally the Australian media…wow…hard to know where to start.
Let’s just say that the ABC which is the state broadcaster is openly, blatantly indeed brazenly Alarmist. This is bad news for anybody with a brain because the rest of the media is pretty moronic so if you want to watch or listen to anything remotely intelligent, that’s not littered with adverts you have to accept a great dollop of Global Warming Drivel along with it.
The new government has taken certain steps to dismantle the Warmist nest that has grown here over the last ten years. Immediately on gaining power it abolished ‘The Climate Commission’ through which the likes of Tim Flannery was paid $100,000 a year to predict that Brisbane would run out of water in 2009! etc etc.
The defunding has already begun and the ABC is already feeling the pain of its support for Green Labor and the entire Carbon Tax fiasco….but it will take a long time before any kind of balance is regained.
Barry McKenzie College, UTAS
What ever happened to that Gergis paper? Last I heard it was put “on hold” while they sort out their problems. That was in June 2012.
Well Tasmania is an example of a green basket case. This Pointman guest post by “Blackswan” is a well-researched and detailed essay on the rise of big Green and the damage it can do.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/an-island-adrift-in-a-sea-of-good-intentions/
Charles Nelson says:
“The new government has taken certain steps to dismantle the Warmist nest that has grown here over the last ten years.”
And not without notice. I’m sure the rest of the world is closely watching the difference between Australia and Germany energy management. What started out as a political movement will soon be turned on by people when they realize the extent of the hoax.
UTAS – the home of “Map of Tas”
After reading this list, I think the best bet would be whichever Australian university is considered “party central”.
/snark
Charles Nelson says:
May 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Australia is an amazing and beautiful country but its population is very vulnerable to Global Warming propaganda for a number of fairly obvious reasons………………..etc etc etc as the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s King would say
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Well stated Charles- the whole article.
Charles Nelson says:
May 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm
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Pretty good summing there of Australia, Charles.
My Country;
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land –
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand –
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea Mackellar
1885 – 1968
http://www.poemhunter.com/dorothea-mackellar/
This is a classic speech about the value of universities. Unfortunately it’s a fake but it makes a very good point. BTW I wasted 8 years at uni.
http://www.satirewire.com/news/0006/satire-ellison.shtml
Bond……started by a crook with a faulty memory but generally captured by those who actually agree that education for profit is not a sin.
Also on the Gold Coast!
“So, which Australian university would you choose for your kids?”
None. Keep ’em out. Keep ’em honest. That’s what popped into my head on reading that question.
Not exactly a complete list of Australian Universities. Also in my experience individual departments tend to have a fair degree of autonomy so, whilst the examples given are not good, it seems a little unfair to tar entire Universities with the same brush in this manner.
That said, my experience with environmental graduates from a lot of Universities in Australia is that many of them graduate utterly convinced that Global Warming is the most imminent and highest priority threat that the World faces.
Some actual quotes include;
“I tend to accept what others tell me” and
“I read this in the New Scientist and you can’t get more authoritative than that!”
I suspect the underlying problem, which is a worldwide phenomenon is that Universities today seem to be obsessed with the mere learning of “facts” instead of trying to help their students to think critically about the things they are being taught.
For undergraduate education, I’d opt for the University of Canberra. Concentrates on good teaching and good learning, and so far as I know, not too many of the orthodox with respect to AGW. Lovely ambience, too.
Declaration of interest: I was there for twelve years as its vice-chancellor.
iTunes U
Dpes University of Phoenix have a branch there? 🙂
Goldie
Not exactly a complete list of Australian Universities. Also in my experience individual departments tend to have a fair degree of autonomy so, whilst the examples given are not good, it seems a little unfair to tar entire Universities with the same brush in this manner. …
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.
I don’t exactly see other departments and other universities in Australia rushing to take their fellow academics to task, for the sort of abuses I’ve listed, with a few honourable exceptions, such as John Costella and Ian Plimer.
UQ provided my son with an excellent engineering education, up to PhD level. He remains as sceptical of CAGW now as ever. I’m sure in his time there he was untouched by Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, John Cook or the Global Change Institute, as are most students.
My wife studied Social Work at JCU and had to do a module similar to the currently available Developmental Approaches to Eco-Social Justice. She hated it and made it very clear that she did not think environmental issues would impact her one to one relationship with clients and that she did not feel the need to incorporate “a consideration of the non-human world” in her practice. I’m pretty sure it hasn’t intruded into her practice so far, beyond being asked to “Please think about the environment before printing this email”.
I think the problem with the arts and humanities courses is that faculty staff are not qualified to assess climate science for themselves so they accept without question what their politicised climate science colleagues tell them and then feel the need to incorporate this into the courses they offer.
Steve B, the only way I like to see Rockie is in my rearview mirror, beautiful and Rockhampton do not belong in the same sentence, although I’ll concede that the botanic gardens are worth visiting when driving through. Yeppoon, Rosslyn and Emu Park are a different matter entirely.
Ooops, DOES University of Phoenix have a branch there ? 🙂