Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that 350 research jobs are to be cut at the government CSIRO.
Climate science to be gutted as CSIRO swings jobs axe
Fears that some of Australia’s most important climate research institutions will be gutted under a Turnbull government have been realised with deep job cuts for scientists to be announced to staff later today.
Fairfax Media has learnt that as many as 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division will go, with a similarly sharp reduction in the Land and Water division.
Total job cuts would be about 350 staff over two years, the CSIRO confirmed in an email to staff, with the Data61 and Manufacturing divisions also hit.
The cuts were flagged in November, just a week before the Paris climate summit began, with key divisions told to prepare lists of job cuts or to find new ways to raise revenue.
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“Climate will be all gone, basically,” one senior scientist said before the announcement.
The announcement seems to leave open the possibility that jobs will be retained, if scientists can convince private businesses to fund their research positions. Given intense hostility and accusations of bias directed towards some climate scientists who accept funding from private sources, it remains to be seen whether any CSIRO climate scientists will pursue this option.
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So Turnbull is going to keep the carbon tax and fire the scientists? Sounds like he is saying to them MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
The end is nigh. For the Climatist Industry, that is.
It was always about a new revenue source and twisted science and PR progroms to cement it. After the campaign is over, the useful idiots must be purged.
From their back ground work, the way they do the work, seems this 350 are highly qualified to run for office and chair a committee on taxing carbon and selling carbon credits.
LOL
3.6% cut per year for two years……oh noes ! It’s the end of the world ! The sky has fallen !
Yeah , right . I will believe it when I see it . More like an excuse to get rid of any suspected sceptics .
How long could they afford to pay for people to not get anything done?
You’re missing a key point: “they” don’t pay anybody anything; taxpayers (i.e.: not “they”) do.
This kind of reminds me of the joke:
Q: What do you call 500 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start!
Now, wait a minute. I know that Shakespeare once wrote “First we’ll kill all the lawyers”, but that was in furtherance of lawlessness. Without lawyers you will have no rights at all.
No, without lawyers you won’t burn $200/hr in a fruitless effort to enforce your “rights”. If my rights are “God-given” and “inalienable”, there’s something very wrong with a system that requires a narrow specialist to secure what’s already mine!
There are five explicit individual rights in the Australian Constitution. These are the right to vote (Section 41), protection against acquisition of property on unjust terms (Section 51 (xxxi)), the right to a trial by jury (Section 80), freedom of religion (Section 116) and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of State of residency (Section 117). Any other rights are scattered through common law, and Acts passed by the Commonwealth Parliament or State or Territory Parliaments.
So in order to save “$200/hr” you’d better forget about earning and get studying. Shouldn’t take much more than a decade if you’re smart enough.
99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name.
“Total job cuts would be about 350 staff over two years”
So this was 350,org’s secret plan all along!
The 350 is either an ironic coincidence – or someone in the government press department has a sense of humour.
I believe in second chances.
Even if they faked temps, they should be allowed (under supervision) to monitor the temps of fryers in a fast food joint.
Aren’t you being just a bit optimistic – fast food joints have standards to keep. I suggest they would be better suited to a career compiling the “facts” for electioneering leaflets … sorry on reflection that what they were doing!
Research on the gravest threat in the history of mankind gutted in order to advance other priorities? You can’t make this stuff up.
(It’s gonna be a loooooonnnnng century I fear).
don k
You might want to get inside so the “sky is falling” stuff doesn’t hurt you
It’s OK. The sky is only modeled.
… And if it starts to fall, we can just tweak a few parameters and make another run.
… Unless, of course there is no funding for the simulation computers.
My point was that if you believe in CAGW, cutting funding for CAGW research is quite a peculiar notion. How many other, even more peculiar notions do you suppose those folks have. Do you think that some of them might have real-world consequences?
IK am betting the “K” stands for Kee”.
Mission accomplished……..in the Zika virus, engineered or not.
Easy to lie and obfuscate with taxpayer dollars; less so with private/industry dollars as they expect real results.
According to the CEO of the CSIRO on last night’s 7.30 report the number of employees in the CSIRO will not change, the climate area employees will then,presumably, be offered ‘innovative’ positions elsewhere in the rest of the organisation.
So no one need be sacked.
I’m not sure this reduction is really a good thing because surely the 350 will be the less enthuastic foot draggers. The remaining will surely get the message and prove their value by pumping out more alarmist propaganda.
On the other hand, maybe it is an easy out for the smart ones to get out while the getting is good.
Send them to Centrelink. The $10,000 a year Newstart allowance is a much better value for money option than the $100,000 a year plus it cost to employ them to make stuff up about the weather!
Who knew that global warming would endanger the population of climate scientists instead of polar bears.
Great comments thread, warms the cockles of my heart. The perfect follow-through would be to now focus on the BoM and then clean out academia-land.
The previous green/left governments joined BoM and the CSIRO at the hip, its essential that they be separated if sanity is to return to these organisations.
http://www.cawcr.gov.au/about-us/
In the meantime we demand an audit to see how the terrestrial data has become corrupted.
Must keep the momentum going by now cleaning up the BoM and then the zombies at ANU, UNSW, MelbUni, UWA, why not the lot.
‘some of Australia’s most important climate research institutions’ That is an empty set.
BoM personal are being replaced by bots, with the adjustments set in warm concrete.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/bureau-of-meteorology-to-axe-staff-from-all-regional-stations-except-cairns/448845
Considering the damage they have done, are doing and would have done to manufacturing in Australia , I say good riddance.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/05/senior-csiro-scientist-derides-chief-executives-claim-climate-change-is-answered
“Who is he to declare that climate change is answered?
You did, enjoy your cooling career.
From the same article
We don’t know what the heck is waiting for us,
The pogey line, that’s what.
” … or to find new ways to raise revenue.”
Carbon Tax!!!
Surprising, but welcome I think. Anyone miss the ship of fools? That was fun!