Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Leading French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron has invited the entire US climate science community to relocate to France.
Climate scientists wary of Trump: Please come to France, says presidental hopeful
By Martin Enserink Feb. 10, 2017 , 8:15 AM
The mediagenic wunderkind of French presidential politics has a message for U.S. scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working on climate change and worrying about their future under President Donald Trump: Come to France.
In a video posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts late last night (and hashtagged #ScienceMarch), Emmanuel Macron renewed his commitment to fighting global warming and extended a warm welcome: “We want people working on climate change, energy, renewables, and new technologies. France is your nation.”
He may well get an opportunity to make good on his promise. Polls released this week suggest that Macron, the founder of a new center-left party who is campaigning on environmental protection, has soared past two more traditional candidates and is likely to face Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme-right National Front, in the 7 May runoffs. One poll says he’d defeat her with 63% of the votes.
For most scientists, moving to France is easier said than done, says Michael Halpern, deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. “It’s not as if you can just pick up a NASA climate satellite and just reassign it to France,” Halpern says. “But politicians the world over now recognize that science is a global endeavor, and seem increasingly eager to ensure that it is not disrupted by political interference. Gag orders and immigration bans do make it more challenging for scientists to do their work.”
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Lets hope US climate scientists take up Macron’s offer.
I’ve got to say there are worse places to live. French food is fantastic, the women are beautiful. In many rural regions, such as the lovely Lespignan, the delicious local wine is served using petrol bowsers attached to 10,000 litre tanks – you either bring your own plastic container, or they supply one. France also has its own space programme, no doubt they could help climate scientists with any additional satellites they require.
Of course, if climate skeptic Presidential candidate Marine Le Penn wins the election, the offer might be withdrawn. So best be quick.
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As if France hasn’t got enough crooks of its own already.
‘likely to face Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme-right National Front’
So, it will be the alt-right vs the ctrl-left.
Go ahead and send them all to France. We could supply them with free transportation on the b-ark.
Countries like Poland were those that were historically abused by Western powers for the construction of concentration camps etc. It would be fair if those facilities were sometimes built e.g. in France.
Fleeing possible religious persecution by the Trump administration.
All 57 of them.
I hope they don’t go away mad. However, probably the same number of climate scientists who leave will equal the number of celebrities who kept their promises to leave. 0
Meanwhile Hungary offers asylum to the french and other west europeans:
http://www.dw.com/en/europeans-oppressed-by-liberalism-welcome-to-seek-asylum-in-hungary/a-37506666
I’d be wary of moving to a country where (on the 50th anniversary of D-Day) so many young locals were asking why there were so many senior citizen Americans/Canadians/Brits milling around.
Clueless youths is hardly a French invention.
Oh, they’ll wake up when they need us again. Only next time most of our own youth will probably be rooting for the other side.
Macron is a bubble of hot air.
He is the invention of the media, possibly a virtual particule.
Macron is an extremist fool. Rallying to him would probably finish the center-right.
a Great Idea for the Citizens of France to take on the funding burden of Global Climate Science.. But couldn’t this be considered a bit of a sacrilege,living in a country powered by Nuclear Energy? I thought that was against their Religion.
That’s rich! Just what France needs, more rent-seeking socialist ‘refugees’….
From all of the US of A: “Au revoir, petite flocons de neige!”
Trump should offer to buy the plane ticket for any Climate “Scientist” that wants to leave America. No way would any other country be gullible enough to pay their salaries.
Climate Science Behaving Badly; 50 Shades of Green & The Torture Timeline
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/climate-science-behaving-badly-50-shades-of-green-the-torture-timeline/
What are they going to do? Keep studying CO2? For what? It appears they have already settled the science. Do we keep paying people to prove the earth isn’t flat?
Hooray! I hope he wins. The French deserve both!
France can have our Paris Accord “commitments” as well.
Generally-speaking, why is the talk of Democrats and liberals leaving the US always for places like Canada, Aussieland, and white European nations? Why not a more diverse locale?
Doing science without the climate scientists is like analyzing data without an accordion.
You mean, “Doing science without climate scientists is like analyzing data without a slide whistle.”
… clowns, remember.
All this talk of France, the French, wine, beautiful women, etc. has made me wonder whether we should name a bar drink after the CO2-catastrophic-warming fear.
Let’s see, what ingredients would we use? — It needs to be really hot, so it probably needs to be something like vodka, extra-spicy Bloody Mary mix, extra lime to symbolize an exceedingly sour attitude towards conflicting data, definitely NOT chilled, so NO ice, and followed by a really strong back shot of the highest proof liquor you could find.
Now the name — what shall we call it? … How about The Global Meltdown ?
Maybe the rest of you have some embellishments. (^_^)
Surely has to be fizzy as well? 🙂
This evening a toxic irritant gas was released into the air in Hamburg airport, Germany. I travelled to Hamburg this evening, from Belgium, from where I am posting this; however the attack missed me since I chose to go by car.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38950116
It’s being euphemistically called a “prank”, although we all know that when the perpetrator is identified, or identifies himself, the name won’t be anything like “John Smith” or even “Johannes Schmidt”, but something more exotically middle eastern or North African.
CNN is silent on this probable terrorist attack. It is probable that the global extreme left nexus of politicised journalists will be doing their best to play down or remain silent about islamic terror acts, no doubt thinking that these will somehow strengthen Donald Trump and his government. It is clearly politically incorrect to acknowledge the existence of islamic terrorism.
Pepper gas canister released by a prankster. Similar event happened last summer at the London City airport.
I guess it depends on the definition of “prankster.” This is beyond a practical joke.
Win-win! Please take all of the traumatized Government Bureaucrat Zealots, too!
French politics have always been inscrutable. And amazingly lacking in logic – whoever promises
the most always seems to get elected. They don’t like to hear negatives.
Past a certain point, baseless insinuations of violence should be met with real violence. To set the record straight and restore karmic balance to the universe.
Oops, forgot the /s. I think.
Climate scientists are not registered in this country so I guess that anyone can claim to be a climate scientist without regard to education or experience. So this must be a possible job offer for anyone who wants to work in anything related to climate science. I would like such a job in addition to what I am already doing because I would like the extra income. I cannot afford to move out of Southern California so the job will have to be via the Internet and I do not speak French or have any desire to learn a new language so all my correspondence will have to be in English.
Right off the bat, I believe that the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which Mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific reasoning to support the idea that the climate sensivity of CO2 is really zero. We will have a much better change to control Earth’s climate by adjusting the amount of N2 in the atmosphere then the amount of CO2 if only it was possible for us to do that. I do belive that there are many good reasons to be conserving on the use of fossil fuel but climate change is not one of them. I am willing to recieve money from France for efforts to support my ideas on climate.
This comment is a protest of any deprivation of monies willhass suffers at the hands of the French governing class . . this oppression of science has got to stop, or else!!
Any chance they will take a few from oz ? Flannery , Finkel and the whole loony lot from the climate council .