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Of course, if climate skeptic Presidential candidate Marine Le Penn wins the election, the offer might be withdrawn.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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“Give me your liars, your exaggerators,
Your adjusters of data yearning to do their dirty deeds free of oversight,
The wretched swine gorging at your government trough.
Send these, the spineless, politically motivated charlatans, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the socialist prison door.”
– France
+++!
Do we send a statue to go with it?
Liberty to Create Hockey Stick Graphs
Good one AGW! Asylum is also the term used for a mental institution.
“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 …”
What is wrong with the French. The continuation of their social and cultural existence is the real existential threat for the nation and “environment” is a fantasy bed of sand to stick your head into. This country is one reason why I was rooting for Brexit even though I don’t even live in EU or the US. EU politics is a continental illness that can’t be cured. They can’t let go of a multi-timed failed political economy. Germany is different and they will get themselves out from under the demonstrated foolishness. It is precisely why the rest of the EU has to rely on Germany to buy them out of their economic torpor. This formula is near the breaking point. The French citizens have either a death wish or have been educationally clubbed into numbness.
Would benefit the US if he also took all the academics who teach aromatherapy at the college level and anyone involved in gender studies.
“Of course, if climate skeptic Presidential candidate Marine Le Penn wins the election, the offer might be withdrawn.”
That was a lot of reading on LePen the link.
“She favours the repeal of the 1973 Pompidou-Giscard Law, which makes it illegal for France to borrow at zero or a low rate of interest from the Banque de France and forces the country to borrow at higher rate on the international financial markets. In her view, the national debt has grown steeply because of this law. She claimed that in 2010 France had already refunded 1.355 trillion euros of accrued interest on loans at a time when the national debt represented around 1.650 trillion euros.[203][209]”
As we say here in America, “Who makes these deals? We don’t make good deals any more. We make bad deals. We have stupid people making deals. But all that is going to change. All that is going to change very quickly.”
Bon chance.
https://www.upr.fr/actualite/france/evenement-lupr-fete-ses-10-ans-le-25-mars-2017-a-paris