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….
They closed an undergrad program and will focus on showier alternatives related to climate change. Not that surprising given cost pressures at many schools, even the Ivy League.
The Climate Council was closed in Australia. $180,000 for 2 days work a week for 2 years for Tim Flannery beforehand. Now he has a boat trip for a week charging 19 customers $7,500. Typical socialist rubbish, waiting for the masses to rebel. No wonder they all have grey beards.
Got no problem with Flannery receiving funds from members of his cult, I object when they come after my money 😉
I am sure Flannery was in The Climate Commission set up in 2011. When Abbott abloished it, Flannery went and packed a sad-on and formed The Climate Council. I am glad he did as we’ve not heard much from him. He was also on the board of a geothermal energy company that received ~AU$90m, and now no longer trades I believe.
Thank God and greyhound they’re gone. . .
https://youtu.be/tx8x3LCnYZw
Does this mean the will now publish disaster senarios sans the pretense of scientific research?
As wise move, Yale. Undergraduate slingers of crapola don’t have the credibility of Ph.D crapola slingers
Well, I mean, the science IS settled after all, so no more need to thrust massive amounts of cash into it
no they’re not…..they are going to ramp it up
……….. toward climate change initiatives that are “more showy.”
Well once you have proved beyond reasonable doubt that climate change is real (we all knew that) why continue to waste money studying what is self evident ??
I’m quite happy with my present climate, so no need to drive 18.52 km (10 nautical miles) down the road to get something different.
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No its not, you’re believing in fictional models, falsified data, and an omission of important facts like solar cycles and other climate drivers, its a dirty trick to try to tax your very breath to fund idiots like Al Gore. Read more bro.
The climate changes, that much is true, manmade climate change is a scam designed to tax mammalian life.
OK Alexander, I’ll take your word for it that climate doesn’t change.
It is you who needs to read more.
And I ain’t your bro.
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Could it be they are employing common sense? Nah, it is Yale.
Climate change is now outside their “safe space.”
@ur momisugly Goldrider &:48 pm March 3: Yep I can see them all, curled into a ball and tears leaking from their eyes.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/03/pittsburgh-students-in-tears-and-feeling-unsafe-after-milo-yiannopoulos-event/#disqus_thread
“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.
“Climate Change” is the world’s biggest global government jobs creation program that was invented for the coming automation-caused unemployment apocalypse.
“Warning signs that the end was near had been on the horizon for years, as budget cuts reportedly gutted the program.”
“They eventually cut funding so much that it just became buying food,” student James Barile told The Daily News.
Several students involved with the institute expressed shock and frustration with the decision.
“It can’t be a budget thing. It can’t be,” YCEI New Haven Energy Scholar Intern Matthew Goldkang said. “I don’t want to say that Yale doesn’t support [the YCEI], but…I think it’s the administration’s lack of interest. I had no idea we were going to be completely cut. It’s really sad.”
Oh no they are running out of food.
I wonder if there was a problem with their student loans for a bs degree…
Just how many research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates does Yale have?
At least one fewer than they did.
Yet another mix reported story by the idiots at this factually challenged website. Actually climate science, specially the modeling and predictive stuff is likely more of a graduate level subject so I can see why this UNDERGRADUATE center was closed. Undergraduates do not have the skills and technical knowledge required.
My son is a graduate student in computational mechanics and has been at it for years. He says it requires four years of UG materials science and mechanical engineering just to really START in computational mechanics. He has taken level after level of maths and has been involved with graduate level modeling as a RA since his sophomore year. Oh he laughs at the analysis level of the website.
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…
True, but these other programs ostensibly have some scientific rigor in their course offerings whereas the Institute was likely one of those “studies” programs that focused on feelings. As I discovered as a science and math professor, the “feelings” crowd does not do hard.
Yes, this was an undergraduate program so it was like a concentration, not a research center. The website shows it clearly, there are no graduate students. So this means nothing.
I must have gone to a totally backward University.
They only offered Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and maybe Geology, in the Science Department.
Dunno why Mathematics was in the Science Department instead of the Arts Department.
But I took it anyhow since I was aloud to.
I never heard of most of these modern Science subjects. We did have an Engineering school, for folks who wanted to be engineers, instead of scientists. I think they taught maths as well.
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It would have been nice if they taught you how to spell.
[Typing errors do not denigrate the thoughts behind the written message.
Caustic, unneeded insults on typing errors in a web reply do denigrate the second writer. .mod]
another one bites the dust. No further need to research settled science. They really worked themselves out of a job.
You’re right, perhaps just like Australia, they are moving from a focus on studying AGW, to focus on mitigation strategies for the warming that is occurring. Good point!
Errr…what warming Chris?
Here you go, Patrick: http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/OandA/Areas/Assessing-our-climate/State-of-the-Climate/2014-SoC-Report
Chris, Australia had warmer years before 1910 and at weather stations there has been significant urbanisation. Was there an airport in Sydney in 1910? Maybe you should do some reading on the subject.
Patrick, maybe you should read the actual paper and make an effort to refute their analysis, rather than trotting out the standard skeptic talking points (UHI, it’s been hot in the past so therefore CO2 can’t be the cause, instrument accuracy, natural variation).
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:
Let’s try that again:
Heh, what began as a Paul Simon song….
I was walking down the street
When I thought I heard this voice say
Say, ain’t we walking down the same street together
On the very same day
I said hey Senorita that’s astute
I said why don’t we get together
And call ourselves an institute
…ended up all Earth Wind and Fire
Somethin’ happened along the way
what used to be happy was sad
Somethin’ happened along the way
and yesterday was all we had
And oh after the love has gone
how could you lead me on
and not let me stay around…
My advice to the students is to start drinking heavily.
Google maps informs me that one of the closest bars is
Sounds about right for someone with the global-warmin’ blues.
Thanks Bluto !!!
Just buy more finger toys.
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When did they stop? They can always come to Colorado, sit around an electric solar powered campfire light, and smoke weed (it’s legal) singing kumbaya songs.
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.
And those remaining? Many of them are still in it for the same reason that Hillary is still running for President. It’s either win – or be in the same color of pantsuit EVERY day.
Orange.
It seems unfortunately, that my home country Canada will slowly replace Australia as to the most climate change indoctrinated.
It is so painful to watch TV here with all the propagandistic nonsense going on…sigh…
“my home country Canada will slowly replace Australia as to the most climate change indoctrinated”
More than “global warming causes sand to go away” indoctrinated? I don’t think it’s possible!
http://images.sudouest.fr/images/2013/09/06/le-trait-de-cote-aquitain-evolue-avec-le-rechauffement_1362304_800x400.jpg
http://www.sudouest.fr/2013/09/07/rechauffement-climatique-qu-est-ce-qui-nous-attend-en-aquitaine-1160949-706.php
“Le trait de côte aquitain évolue avec le réchauffement climatique.”
“The shape of coast changes with climate warming.”
“Lévolution de la température, du degré dhumidité, ou du taux de CO2 peuvent « accélérer les processus de corrosion, de mouvement des sols, réduire les durées de service des ouvrages, augmenter les coûts dentretien et, dans des cas extrêmes, menacer la sécurité des usagers et des services »,”
“Theevolution of temperature, thehumidity, or CO2 level can accelerate corrosion, terrain movements, reduce service life, and in some cases, threaten the safety of users.”
I used to only avoid CBC radio and TV, especially Bob McDonald, but I’ve had to keep the mute button handy ever since Trudeau won. Global has repeated the First Ministers’ Meeting item all morning. Sigh.
Janus. The most confusing thing to me with the CAGW is the concern that many Canadians have with it. It seems to me that they could use some warming. One Canadian said they were worried that they would be invaded by those from the south.
If climate warming is changing the shape of the coast it must have been climate cooling that created the shape to begin with. Which climate was the best? Nobody knows. What we do know is the coast is variable and any intelligent person knows that. They are not the people who build on temporary land. That takes a politician.
@ur momisugly simple-touriste… you took that photo in NJ? There is the ocean, there is the building. What could possibly go wrong? And they say we are an intelligent species!
I could never understand why NJ had hurricane evacuation routes. If you have lots of money, you too can have a multi million dollar home at the shore. And if something happens, you can sue the people bringing you climate change. After all, it’s not your fault. And at taxpayer expense the state will replenish that sand dune for you .Which happens after every storm.
“you took that photo in NJ?”
Not exactly: Soulac-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, South-West of France.
The building was erected in the sixties.
Well the science is settled after all…
What’s a sciency word for “d’oh”?
Looks good on the warmunists. They twist language so much, but I don’t think even they can wrangle speaking out of both sides of their mouths, i.e. “science is settled” but “we have to have millions of dollars to keep studying”. I mean, you don’t expect hard working scientists to fly COACH do you?
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?
I thought that too. What are the approved symbols of worship for Warmism?
A giant hockey-stick?
A giant hockey-stick with Al Gore pinned to it?
A single tree (YAD 061), like the Irish Sceach?
The Sceach or Fairy tree is bent by the power of the great wind god:
http://www.yourquizmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/blowing-tree.jpg
Looks like an inverted hockey stick. Makes it look all soft and saggy.
If that green hay wasn’t there, I would think that was the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree in Yamal.
Maybe Michael Mann should cut it down to measure its Temperature.
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Al Gore? Michael Mann? Hansen? Many wind gods
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
Yea, Trudeau Jr. just gave the U.N. $2.65 billion of our money for wealth redistribution, I mean to help all those poor dictators, I mean poor people in “developing” countries deal with global warming. I have to deal with Ms. Carbon Tax Premier Kathleen Wynne here in Ontario. That’s the province with the $300 billion debt (doubled in 12 years of Liberal rule) and the highest (once the lowest) electricity rates in Canada thanks to “Green” energy.
Please TG and 3cents, don’t get me going on Trudeau II. Already the budget deficit ( annual) has doubled, sorry more than doubled. Today he is pushing Carbon Taxes on a country with less than 37 million people that live in one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet. The alumni at Yale withholding funds is probably the main cause and I am not talking $100, I am talking millions of dollars by the real alumni, large corporations (like say, Wall Mart/Loblaw/Pharma etc) that all depend on cheap and in place energy, oil and Gas.
Its worse here in Ontario. The Auditor-General (who has a background with Manitoba Hydro) did a value for money audit and found that we’ve OVERspent on energy $37 BILLION in only 8 years.
Such an audit looks at a) what the government said it would do and b) what it said it would cost. Using the government’s own numbers.
Of course, the government fell back on the typical left-wing “but we TRIED, and its all for the GOOD”, who cares if we’re off by a few tens of billions?”.
http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en15/2015AR_en_final.pdf
If Trump wins, all those American scientists will be doing a George Castanza and elbowing our Syrian refugees out of the way to get at the gravy train.
I sent a posting to PM Trudeau and Min. McKenna pointing out the many shortcomings of their belief. I presume that it was ignored given that Trudeau has just met all the premiers and tried to push his carbon tax onto them.
What credentials does he have? Ms. McKenna, apart from being a female who is quite attractive, specialiazed in law with particular liking for French. Excellent grounding for climate change activities…..
Ian M