From the “you too can be a professional climatologist” department comes this very interesting graph. Reader Shawn Fitzpatrick submits this graph after reading our earlier story “Climate burnout is fast approaching“.
What it shows is climate science on the downturn, back to 2008 levels.
Source: http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=%22climate+change%22&l=
This goes well with Google’s trend numbers:
Source: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=climate%20change%2C%20Global%20warming%2C%20climate&cmpt=q
Overall, interest in climate and global warming seems to be trending downward lately, be it from Internet interest or jobs.
Although sourcing the data might not be easy, it would be interesting to see another two trends: (1) public funding, and (2) carbon taxes. My guess on those would be:
(1) Public funding and employment follow each other closely, leading to my modified version of the fifth law of thermodynamics, that: “climate work expands and contracts to use up the public funding driving it”, and
(2) Carbon tax revenue continues to increase, meaning that administrations are firmly addicted, and like any addict, they are unlikely to listen to reason.
My prediction is that climate pseudo-science will attempt to gain underdeveloped third-world country status and claim a right to 0,7% of all carbon taxes collected. By the way, how much has big philanthropy given climate change, from Buffet, Gates, Soros, Zuckerberg, etc.? Not much, but that’s another story. Paucity of contributions in this case possibly does not indicate their lack of belief, rather lack of new market.
I’m not totally against this. These people have wives and families to look after. We can’t just leave them out in the street, or worse still, squeeze them into other disciplines. We don’t really want them to go to work in vital areas, such as agriculture, do we? Perversely, I think it’s better they stay where they are, publishing their “work” – they’re much easier to spot that way.
If large numbers of employees are fired, that can lead to higher unemployment
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when the fired people are eventually hired those would be new jobs. so by firing people you are creating new jobs. the green economy in action.
I think it’s better they stay where they are
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those are old jobs. the green economy promises new jobs. thus it make no sense to leave them where they are. best turf them out so they can get some of those new jobs.
Public funding and employment follow each other closely
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as public funding increases, private industry shrinks. the more money governments need, the less left for the rest of us. jobs dry up to be replaced by government employees. eventually non-government business can no longer afford the increasing overhead of government and moves to other countries. border restrictions prevent the people from following the jobs.
Geoff Sherrington
Eric Worrall says: “nobody cares if you fire a climate scientist”
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Not so, Eric, this Australian cares.
Climate scientists are people with feelings. Don’t be harsh.
If large numbers of employees are fired, that can lead to higher unemployment and that can trash the national economy.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said, and I agree, that in relation to ‘climate change’, he is not interested in policies that trash the economy.
Any time you want to pay me some of your hard earned, so I can spend more time down the beach, posting comments on blogs, go right ahead. I assure you I’ll do the local economy some good, the beer and food I consume helps keep others employed.
The fact that my activities will not benefit you in the slightest shouldn’t be an issue – according to the lefty interpretation of Keynes, it doesn’t matter if you hire people to dig pointless ditches and fill them in, the flow of cash, even from completely pointless activities, still helps keep the wheels turning.
There are so few truly “green jobs” little increase in unemployment would occur if they were all dismissed and allowed to seek employment in the “normal jobs” economy.
cn
they might? be able to get jobs as gardeners…seeing as they are o eco friendly
like to see em actually have to work
shovelling shit instead of publishing it:-)
I hear Wal Mart is hiring.
Almost all new climate related jobs are an overhead cost to the community and business (excluding Anthony Watts :-),).
The so called ‘jobs of the future’ creation in renewable energy is the biggest example. The more people working to produce energy means more energy cost and less efficiency. This = higher manufacturing and services costs = less competitiveness = lower production = less demand for energy. (ie: the death spiral)
And this failed experiment is being repeated in so many countries, go figure ?
It reminds me of Einstein’s definition of insanity,”doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
That might explain the increasing levels of vitriol coming from the CAGW camp. As the number of jobs decreases, only the must strident have a chance to stay employed.
It’s also good news for the future as the number of people who’s future employment depends on maintaining the myth drops.
charles nelson says:
June 24, 2014 at 6:10 pm
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I’m sure Anthony will have no trouble moving on to the next silly scare story from the Gang that can’t do science.
He’s done quite a few stories on things other than Global Warming already.
Eric Worrall says: June 24
, 2014 at 4:15 pm “nobody cares if you fire a climate scientist”
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I care. I celebrate every time it happens.
As the “Climate” ideology and the “environmental” ideology and “green” ideology all seem to be inextricably linked perhaps a count of “environmental” jobs on offer should have been included as well .
I suspect there will be a huge efflux of “Environmental Managers” or “environmental” wannabe’s from some similar basket weaving level environmental courses about to erupt from Australian university courses very shortly.
So if you want somebody with degree status to “environmentally” sweep your floors at a very cheap wage as thats all they will be good for, maybe now is the time to advertise.
As the quotes of Albert E. have come again, another of his very apt quotes which is highly relevant to the climate alarmist believers and to climate science as it is being practiced today by the current crop of climate scientists;
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former”.
Albert Einstein
They did say CAGW would create more jobs. Remember the rule, do and think the opposite of whatever they claim in Climastrology.
climate jobs’ seems to have peaked and are heading downward….
…this might be a better metric to use to predict climate change temps
The problem is that many of these people would not survive in a real job!
Eric and Geoff: climate “scientists” are more useful if they dig ditches and fill them in, all by themselves in a remote area. A pointless activity is at least neutral in its social consequences. Sadly, their contribution was negative, because they stopped progress, both in an economic and an ideological sense. The west has gone backwards because of them.
Woweee, zoweee! A decline in climate job postings from 0.06% of “total jobs” to 0.01%. What’s not to like?
Well, we’re dealing with %ages here: If the number of “total jobs” has increased dramatically, the change in absolute number of climate jobs may not be as great as the 0.06%-to-0.01% percentage change.
Anybody know what the “total jobs” numbers are?
Maybe we can should start recycling lawyer jokes as climate scientist jokes.
Example: Q: What do you call 100 climate scientists at the bottom of the ocean? A: A good start (maybe they got there hunting missing heat).