Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Speculation is mounting about whether President Macron will keep his promise to take all our climate scientists, and offer them a new home in France.
Back in February, then Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron offered US climate scientists who were worried about their future under President Trump a new home in France.
Will President Macron keep his promise?
(President Macron speaking in English)
Interest in Macron’s offer has surged since he won the French Presidency;
French president-elect Emmanuel Macron mocks US counterpart Donald Trump over climate change
MAY 9, 20179:32AM
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The message was recorded in February but surged in views yesterday following the former investment banker’s election.
The message, which he reiterated after his historic win, centres on his commitment to preserve the budget to fight climate change.
It also has a none-too-subtle dig at Trump.
“Please come to France, you are welcome. It’s your nation; we like innovation. We want innovative people. We want people working on climate change, energy, renewables, and new technologies.”.
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I am deeply moved by President Macron’s words “The Message for you guys – come to France”.
President Macron, please take them. Take them all.
But be warned, they will expect you to feed them; don’t expect us to pay for their upkeep.
Thanks to Brexit, the days of English speaking countries subsidising the French are over.
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I will second the motion! Don’t go away mad…just go away!
I wonder if he would include me and my family coming to Paris to view the Eiffel Tower. At least it is one thing firm in Europe.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
There are lot of things in Paris, in France and in Europe prettier that the Eiffel Tower, most of them predate the tower.
Yes, to me the Eiffel Tower looks unfinished–and ugly.
Rocky,
But there is no better view of Paris than from the top observation deck of the tower. Great views from up there on a clear fall day.
A great place to see an urban heat island.
I’m happy for them to go away mad. Just as long as they go away.
We don’t want them here either thank you!
What Trump should do is put money on the table to disprove catastrophic global warming and get those self same scientists to change sides. If not the next democrat elected will just start the whole thing rolling again. Trump needs to put an end to this scam once and for all.
Trump’s agency heads should start updating their respective websites and preparing and holding a few news conferences presenting some of the “perplexing” questions and what their approach might be. For example: Why have the models exaggerated warming? How research needs to be refocused and what this means for public policy….
et, Monsier Le President, please, please take ours too… they are a bit delicate and sometimes noisy but will just fit in perfectment en Paris.
The coral reef researchers will only need to hop acros to Nouvelle Caledonie so it will be cheap, tres tres cheap ( Que ve dit en Francaise?)
Merci, merci, merci beaucoup.
Amour from Oz…..
Vous voulez dire ‘comment se dit-il?’ ou ‘que veux dire’. Tres cheap? Tres bon marche.
How come no accent marks available? Pooh!
Franglais still exists (thank you Miles Kington, RIP).
Annie,
Franglais got me by all over France except for some people in Paris.
Sara,
Je suis from humble convict stock and humble franglais is all we knows.
@Sara;
Use the Windows Character Map. Put in all the accents you want: à, á, è, é, and of course, ñ
Could we crowdfund this effort? (No money for French lessons, just 1 way transport)
In the FX show “Baskets”, the protagonist Chip Baskets moves to France to study at a French clown school but doesn’t speak the language. Humiliation ensues. If this doesn’t sound like this situation (substitute “climate scientist” for “clown”) then I don’t know what does.
If these climate snowflakes can’t take the heat from climate skeptics how will they ever deal with French waiters???
Mumbles,
I just assumed Chip was a climate scientist and you had used a colorful alternate word for his profession.
the days of English speaking countries subsidizing the French are over.
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has Macron invited Quebec as well?
T’was a goodern , …. Ferd, ……. a ggodern fer shur.
The last unfinished business of the British Empire is the question of what to do about Quebec. It is obvious that we (and I include Americans in this because they too fought at the Plains of Abraham in 1759 prior to the American Revolution) that Quebec was conquered against her will, and must be set free, at last. Good Bye and Farewell Quebec! Enjoy your separation. France is waiting for you too.
I think Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys went up there to liberate them, for which they got shot at & put in Jail.
Ethan was also suspected of negotiating with the Brits to make Vermont a British colony.
before you go disclosure: France is bankrupt and your taxes will be higher than 50%
patrick. Now why tell the climate change warmunists that? They are mostly radical leftists and surely they will be happy with the policies they are trying to establish here in the U.S. Let them find their dreams in France and let America return to real science for real problems.
Patrick,
That is why some 70,000 French expats live in Belgium, not the poorest French I suppose, to avoid the French taxes… But please don’t say that further, we still have our former vice-president of the IPCC here, J.P. van Yperzele which -lucky for us- didn’t succeed in getting the new IPCC boss. So don’t divert all those US climate expats to us, one Van Ypersele is already more than enough…
Is Paris burning (yet)?
Just keep doing what your bankster friends and nana tell you to do.
Moron Macron
Who cares if they are mad?
They could not possibly be madder than those of us who know what is really going on.
Do I feel vindictive enough to wish more climate scientists on anyone, even some country as annoying as the French? It is ten after midnight local time, so I currently think maybe only the North Koreans or Iranians deserve them, but my mind will probably change by morning.
Hey- they voted for the Mcron. The US voted for Trump. It’s clear where the new centre of the action is.
They’ve got the bomb too you know?
BTW- help out a non-French speaker here – what does “frappe” mean?
gnome, frappe means
your weighing some 75 kilos.
Look behind you – your elder son, some 85+ kilos returning from the gym: don’t get frapped.
‘frapper’ – to hit or beat.
And the beat goes on….
gnome – it means over expensive coffee variant…
BTW- help out a non-French speaker here – what does “frappe” mean?
A punch, a blow, a knock.
what does “frappe” mean
Milkshake
Like creme de menthe
https://flemingsbond.com/creme-de-menthe-frappe/
A ‘coup de foudre’ is more exciting although possibly just as damaging in the long run.
Sara, https://youtu.be/bS3O5zg290k
Sara, https://youtu.be/bS3O5zg290k
the beat goes on. Will this mend broken hearts.
https://youtu.be/5A0TaiHr3tc
Sometimes it means …… “diarrhea of the mouth”, … a synonym for “crap”, feces, sh–t
Like in, ……. “Don’t be talking that frappe to me”.
“Frappe” means “Cannot spell milkshake”.
I have an even BETTER idea. The next COP meeting? On Mars. We have a crash program to develop habitats and transport, a biological program to get some sort of algea and other plant life to grow around the Martian poles to melt them and start producing O2, then we ship them off to the last COP meeting on a one way colonization trip. We send some wind turbines and solar panels for their power (no nuclear). The solar panels won’t work as well as they do on Earth, but they’ll be getting more efficient real soon, so no problem.
From their toasty-warm perch on Mars, with it’s high CO2 content, they can continue to lecture us about how CO2 traps heat. They can bray on about lapse rates based on CO2 rather than atmospheric pressure. They can continue to pontificate about sustainability. And from Mars, they’ll have lots of street-cred behind their pronouncements, boy, howdy! I only hope they don’t overheat, since Mars’ atmosphere is so high in CO2 content. Of course, they’ll consume potatoes grown in their own excrement, like Matt Damon did in the movie. In fact, we’ll send Matt Damon with them to be an expert assistant. Katherine Hayhoe and Naomi Oreskes and Hillary Clinton will stand for election as first Queen of Mars. It will be a Matriarchal society. We need one of those to make a comparison against the Earth’s Patriarchal base line. And everyone going will be given a billion dollars in cash, so they will all be rich, and have no excuses, no complaining about not being funded properly.
Mickey, will you be running for president? 🙂
And no fossil fuels on Mars!
Warmista Utopia!
I think it would be absolutely perfect if Macron would build a nice new housing development for them right next to one of France’s numerous nuclear power plants.
No, right next to a North African Migrant No-Go zone.
While they are at it, perhaps they should build a new UN headquarters next door. Then they can all have their self appreciation parties without having to use all that nasty fossil fueled transportation.
…offer free heat in the winter too.
Mike, you may have discovered a way to finally test the abiotic oil theory.
Tom
This is quilt-free – the French have invited the climate science dudes in.
Kinda like a tree making friends with termites.
Quilts will be a thing of the past by 2025.
JC, it is more like being asked to help someone do something stupidly dangerous to themselves. I was once asked by a couple of teenage boys how to siphon gasoline by mouth, when they were less than a block from a gas station. I told them it was stupid, and they should just push the their pickup to the gas station.
But they won’t be able to take their juicy research grants with them . . . Ahhhhh
They’ll be under the wing of the EU Mothership and there’s plenty of money for useful people in white coats there – if they follow the PC rules.
Please, take them all, they will love the tax rate!
Surely Macron is bad enough. You want to give them Piltdown Mann as well?
Macron Piltdown Mann sounds like a medieval battle or something.
Rocky, Piltdown Man was an elaborate anthropological scientific hoax/fraud perpetrated by the predecessors of todays climate charlatans, hence the analogy.
“The message was recorded in February but surged in views yesterday following the former investment banker’s election.”
Sounds logical – a former investment banker with a grade in philosophy sure finds applications for climate changers / savers.
“Please come to France, you are welcome. It’s your nation; we like innovation. We want innovative people. We want people working on climate change, energy, renewables, and new technologies.”.
I’m afraid there’s not much of that, but if you want hundreds of climate scientists publishing papers on how your wine industry will be gutted, or how much it will cost to install airconditioners in Paris, or what year the Seine will dry up, or when the Alps will be free from snow by climate change…….you’ll be all set.
Don’t spoil the surprise Grant! 😉
LOL
+100
There are innovative climate researchers.
From turning off the air conditioning during public meetings, to make believe “hockystick” crap, to “hide the decline” …. All very innovative.
Don’t forget the cows! France has 400+ official cheeses. Without cows, there will be no cheese to go with the wine. But cows not only belch because they are ruminants, they also produce a high enough quantity per cow of personal methane to power a dairy farmer’s delivery truck, and they will be judged as contributing heavily to global warmening or something. This, despite their contribution in le beurre et le fromage, tout les deux bien necessaire pour une vie remplite.
Sorry, I get carried away. Macron, il est si grand, si important, si plein de merde!
All 82 cherry picked by Doran & Zimmerman?
They need more Environmental Economists and Natural Resource Sociologists.
I’m not making those up. Those were two of the professions noted in the NYT who’s appointment as EPA science advisors were not renewed. You know that scientist purge by the evil science denying administration.
Oh “WOW”, ……. a big “WOW”.
Certified Degrees in …….. Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Sociology.
Just goes to show you that most all of those profit orientated “Not For profit” taxpayer funder institutions of higher learning (colleges/universities)…… will sell you pretty much any type of Degree that your liberal “troughfeeding” heart desires.
I’ve searched high and low but I can’t find anyone offering a degree in Climate Skepticism…
<\-:
Beliaik,
You should go to one of those institutions and tell the Registrar that you want to study for a degree in Climate Skepticism ……. and I guarantee you that they will post haste create such a course-of-study and will surely charge you triple the tuition rates because anything associated with the skepticism of CAGW climate change is directly contrary to what those institutions have been mandating for the past 20+ years.
Maybe he will include Al Gore 🙂
What? And drive the entire country of France into perpetual winter? I’m not sure the French are that brave.
France couldn’t afford the increase in electricity demand should Gore buy a villa in France.
Macron has no MPs.
He will have trouble delivering.
That’s just how french politics work. Candidates for the presidency traditionally set up their own political party to handle their campaign funding, amongst other things.
Archer.
Campaign funding ? France ! I ask you Sir, how can an Investment Banker, find the “clean” money needed to finance such a costly campaign and never a word in the media France !
Ziiex,
Is that something like “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!t”?
Unlike in America, there really wasn’t enough “alternative media” to cover the release of the hacked email scandal during the French elections. Macron’s dirty connections were laid out in email, and the French press just yawned in unison.
…how can an Investment Banker, find the “clean” money needed to finance such a costly campaign and never a word in the media France !
No doubt all the money will be freshly laundered and clean.
The French will gain with climate forecasts guiding them to good vintage years.
Wonder why China, India and Russia have shown no interest in these scientologists.
Perhaps Macron needs enough voices to maintain the rage; France’s 90% nuclear power needs help to maintain a competitive advantage on energy costs.
At the same time Pr Trump seems wobbly at the knees on a pullout from the Paris agreement.
Please not! It’s mad enough here already.
Look on the bright side – 5 years of jet setting US climate experts trying to speak French so they can tell everyone they are going to die will probably lead to political change.
Thankyou, Steve. France is fine as it is. Infesting it with climate psyentists will reduce its attractiveness severely.
More to the point, what will do to my taxes?
If you want to get rid of them, Eric, why not a research station on Greenland?? They might actually learn to tell climate from weather!
I doubt Greenland would interest most of them. They think their computer models are as good as observations.
Just look at the pitiful state of US surface temperature stations. A lot of US surface stations are sited very poorly, because stations which were originally rural or semi rural are are now surrounded by urban developments.
The climate science response? Did they physically survey stations to work out which stations were reliable? Or did they blindly apply dodgy data homogenisation algorithms from the comfort of their office to try to guess which stations were affected by siting problems?
Since they reject reality in favor of computer models, I suspect they believe their computer models are way better than observations.
computer models are way better than observations
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indeed, they validate adjustments to observations against the models, then feed these adjusted values back into the models, proving the models to be correct, because they are correctly predicting
the adjusted values.
the entire field of climate science computer modelling has ignored nearly a century of experience showing how the lack of double blind controls contaminates all results with human bias.
computer models do not forecast climate. they forecast what the researchers believe will happen to climate. if the models showed them something they did not expect, the models would be changed until they agreed with belief.
that is why double blind controls are required on all forecasting models. to prevent the developers from corrupting the results with what they believe the model results should be. to date climate science has ignored this and ass a result the models cannot be relied upon.
The point of fact your President is asking for them. By extension so should you, to support your president.
“The message, which he reiterated after his historic win, centres on his commitment to preserve the budget to fight climate change.”
And from the begin it was a win / win situation for Le Pen –
Either she wins the polls or Macron has to do her politics in accordance with “there’s no alternative” Merkel.
By the way – the climate changers sure prefer France to Christmas Islands.
If only Italy would keep this one! Skimmed +$3,000,000 for his personal ‘Obama Foundation’, while recommending ‘we all eat smaller steaks to save the planet’.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/09/barack-obama-eating-more-steaks-contributes-to-climate-change/
http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/05/him-640×480.jpg
Global Food Innovation Summit
That’s where the former president lectured the world to follow efforts in restricting atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide is the Base of the Food Chain for all Carbon Based life forms. Carbon Dioxide is freely distributed globally.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama spent a lot of time castigating people for earning too much money.
I guess he meant other people, not himself.
“The message, which he reiterated after his historic win, centres on his commitment to preserve the budget to fight climate change.”
In the TV discussions before the election day Le Pen didn’t perform that good; she had to look up her briefs for some financtechnical special pronouncements.
She didn’t get he was talking about ‘Bonds’, that kind of virtual money that investment magicians move between stock markets cause that’s their deal.
“she had to look up her briefs”
What a gymnastic feat!
So please read ‘briefing maps’
Tim on May 10, 2017 at 6:44 am
Yes, doing all that outlandish work on my own gadget I needed some redactionary support evryday –
You’re 24 hours to late, Tim –
YOU’RE FIRED!
“We want innovative people …”.
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Climate change™ practitioners can be innovative as in inventing new techniques of data manipulation.
Macron is a delusional, dyed-in-the-wool left winger who is not only an EU fanatic but he is pretty much their placeman in Paris. In truth he puts the EU far higher in his affections and loyalties than France. He’s not “independent” at all and offers nothing new, just “more Europe”.
In case any American readers have missed it, it’s not only climate scientists that he thinks will beat a path to Paris. Countless thousands of French executives and their families have flocked to England, and especially London, over the last decade or two, for all the usual EU disaster reasons made worse by even more socialist policies in Paris. Not only does Macron think they are all now going to go back to France post-Brexit but he had the incredibly arrogance and utter rudeness to invite them all back when talking to reporters in Downing Street immediately after a meeting granted to him by Mrs May well before he was elected. How offensive to your host can you get?
Macron is now promising Britain an extremely hard and expensive time over Brexit. He is in for a shock when Mrs May doesn’t roll over and die like Cameron did.
She might not be the Iron Lady, but she isn’t going to take crap from anyone either.
“Thanks to Brexit, the days of English speaking countries subsidising the French are over.”
Right, Eric, always memorizing ‘brittuni’ is celthic clan with roots in Gallia.
Ouch, I deserved that 🙂
Eric, cultural roots. Our blessing, our curse.
Cheers
And the Montanunion, the core idea of today’s EU, was launched by Churchill to finally bring peace to the continent.
Although Churchill never wanted to participate in ‘the continent’, it was clear to everyone that sooner or later the EU would leave the EU.
Let’s do the following deal: British taxpayers can employ Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Prince Charles, House of Lords, MetOffice and the BBC locally. France the US climate scientists. The EU continental net tax contributors, like me, move to US. Everyone is happy.
Anyone familiar with Douglas Adams and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy will recognise that Macron is inviting the ‘Third Ship’.
http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm
Actually it was the ‘B Ark’.
Everyone is responsible for his own towel.
“They don’t have sarcasm on Betelgeuse, and Ford Prefect often failed to notice it unless he was concentrating.”
One of my favourite cites from H2G2. So apt to be applied in this blog.
And the Montanunion, the core idea of today’s EU, was launched by Churchill to finally bring peace to the continent.
SINCE of course Churchill never wanted to participate in ‘the continent’, it was clear to everyone that sooner or later Great Britain would leave the EU.
/ fixed for anglosaxons /
I kinda liked the image of “the EU leaving the EU” 🙂
raises a smile v’
Well, he accepted the Soviet version of it …
Of course he accepted the ‘4 in the Jeep’ version: https://www.google.at/search?q=stalin%20roosevelt%20churchill%20yalta&oq=the+four+in+the+Jeep&aqs=chrome.
I kind of liked it the other way. As the EU loses its mind it is leaving itself.
OK
“The message, which he reiterated after his historic win, centres on his commitment to preserve the budget to fight climate change.”
The message, which he
– reiterated
after his
– historic win,
– centres on his
– commitment to
– preserve the budget to fight
– climate change
– hyphened specifics of latin origin anglosaxons should avoid since –
Is there enough work in France for 97% of the climate scientists?
If they all move to France, perhaps the sceptics (skeptics? – damn you US English speakers) will have the opportunity to move into positions whereby they can swing the conversation back to more realistic interpretations of climate
I know! We remove all the extraneous u’s and always read that “sce” as a longer “s” sound.
(actually the -our/-or thing is a pronunciation difference. Americans actually pronounce color as rhyming with “or”, British speakers tend to be about half way between or and our. It is a subtle difference in pronunciation, but it is real. Don’t even get me started on the pronunciation of “sch-” as in schedule or school! Two peoples separated by a common tongue and all that)
You can thank the Germans for “school” which ironically they pronounce as “shool” (shul).
Yes, that’s good. Put all the alarmist into one place and isolate them from the rest of the world …