Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole; Yale University has announced the closure of its Climate Change Institute. All funding will be cut by the end of June.
After a University decision to cut all its funding, Yale’s Climate & Energy Institute will close by the end of June.
The loss of the institute, which for the last eight years has conducted research related to issues of climate change, leaves a hole in climate and energy studies at Yale. Although the Energy Studies academic program will continue within Yale College, students in the YCEI said they were outraged by the budget cuts and subsequent closure of an institute that is one of the only research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates on campus. The announcement came in a Monday afternoon email to the YCEI community from institute co-directors and geology and geophysics professors David Bercovici and Jay Ague, and follows years of cuts to the institute’s funding, according to students involved in the organization.
“While not all good things have to come to an end, sometimes they just do,” Bercovici and Ague wrote. “The YCEI will stop activities and close up shop as of June 30, 2016.”
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The announced closure left students in the institute with unanswered questions about why the formerly thriving group had its funding cut. University Provost Benjamin Polak — who is currently engaged in annual budget talks with every area of campus — did not respond Monday to questions about the reasons for the YCEI’s funding cuts. Salovey was also unavailable for comment Monday evening.
One possible explanation for the end of the YCEI is that the institute did not generate many alumni donations, Goldklang said. James Barile ’18, who is involved with the YCEI through a solar energy initiative, said the University appeared to be shifting away from undergraduate climate change research, which he said is not very public, toward climate change initiatives that are “more showy.”
Read more: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/03/01/climate-change-institute-shut-down/
Perhaps it is difficult to solicit alumni donations, from people who know that the end of their own gravy train is uncomfortably imminent.
…All I have to say is…” The end is nigh ” ..ROTFLMAO….
Could it be they are employing common sense? Nah, it is Yale.
“Perhaps it is difficult to solicit alumni donations, from people who know that the end of their own gravy train is uncomfortably imminent.”
Precisely. For the last eight years they have been funding and graduating students through this department and the administration just realized that these degrees will yield no endowment.
Just how many research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates does Yale have?
Perhaps the alumni are more mature and rounded in their evaluation of “climate change” risks than the college sophomores.
No public funds, no climate institutes: No woman, no cry.
Were there bad after-effects from a batch of foie gras in Paris late last year?
Quit while you’re ahead.
“one of the only research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates on campus”
Never mind, of course, that there are other programs that still offer it as a course of study.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology? I’m sure they skip climate change completely, and hardly mention it.
Geology and Geophysics? Yeah, their Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate Dynamics research groups barely touch on the subject. Probably.
Et cetera, et cetera…
another one bites the dust. No further need to research settled science. They really worked themselves out of a job.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Sounds like climate change is now outside their “safe space.”
Maybe it’s now outside their “safe space.”
Hmmm. Let me pause to consider if I am sad…what was the topic?
“Yale University Closes Climate Change Institute” due to lack of redistributed wealth… to them.
It looks like they ran out of other people’s money.
An appropriate funeral song:
My advice to the students is to start drinking heavily.
This day is cause to celebrate at this wonderful news. Now I have hope for common sense to make a difference for honest research!
This is part of the long whimper. Climategate in 2009 and the “ridiculously resilient” Pause were pretty much the straws that cracked the climate’s back. The timing of both marked the beginning of the pandemic of chronic clinical depression that struck an unknown number of prominent climate scientists more than halfway through their careers that we don’t hear of anymore.
Many were Ozzies- for some odd reason more than half the climate industry is Australian -(CSIRO canned…wait for it…350 of them – more than three worlds’ worth for a science with one linear equation and a one chemical element to deal with). And they have an evermore increasingly ridiculous Climate Science Centre of Excellence that sticks out like the statue of Saddam’s thumb that you will recall got pushed over ignominiously.The commodore of the Ship of Fools who got stuck in the ice and pummeled by blizzards while studying the disastrous effects of global warming on Antarctica and had to be rescued by a Chinese helicopter (you can’t make this stuff up) got an award from the Centre of Excellence for this debacle. He ventured back into the limelight to do an encore without risking making a voyage, of course, to report the sad news of a large flock of Adelie Penguins having died leaving their sad remains all over the ice – these turned out to be the remains of birds mummified decades ago. A knowledgeable commentator advised us that it is normal to find dead chicks broken eggs and the mummified remains because there are no clean-up predators in Antarctica and they are quick frozen. McIntyre, who is a one man climate science paper killer will need help to finish off the job of cleaning out the thousands of worthless climate papers in the literature.
Joe Romm – gone. Real Climate hanging on like a foundering ship, Bill McKibben- gone in tears, Al Gore – sold his TV station to oil sheiks and makes only half-hearted appearances with his tattered “reality elixir show” on life support like the end days of Buffalo Bill. New York times shuts down its embarrassing global warming section and several other dying newspapers have done the same. James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia gracefully recanted his position, saying it was a way too overblown.
And those remaining? These are the ones with the most skin in the game and also those captive to their governments urging them on in this dead issue. They also have psychological issues I’m sure, evidenced by the reckless, ‘sauve qui peut’ (save what you can is a losing sides last order in a war) behavior of simply trashing the pause. They are giving their bosses their all and will be taking a comfortable retirement before Trump is inaugurated although their legacy won’t be something to dwell on.
A tide of change is coming from other university researchers that are emboldened to give ocean acidifcation a decent burial, resurrection of the Pause, good things about CO2 and some warmth etc. This is the long, slow death spiral of CAGW. Lamar’s Senate investigation of the killing of the pause, the Shukla affair, etc. may wind it up.
Well the science is settled after all…
fantastic they must have read what the Australian govt did to the CSIRO global warming dept
Why does Kroon hall resemble a church so much? A sanctuary for the Climastrology religion?
The economics of Big U seem very mysterious.
Maybe it’s the next big academic field: the role of money in academia.
Cheer up warmist and rent seekers the party is going strong in job-starved /money starved liberal Canada. The 2nd coming of PM Trudeau promises big-time deficit spending and climate spending/grants galore. The apple never falls far from the tree – like father -like son, only on steroids. God help Canada