Guest essay by Eric Worrall
French President Emmanuel Macron has launched a new website which offers senior US climate researchers up to €1.5 Million (almost USD $1.7 million) each to move to France. My question to US climate scientists – what are you waiting for?
‘Your new homeland’: France’s Macron launches website to woo US scientists
Text by Joseph BAMAT
Latest update : 2017-06-09
French President Emmanuel Macron this week launched a website which aims to encourage US scientists and researchers frustrated with President Donald Trump’s position on climate change to move to France.
The website “Make Our Planet Great Again” was a clear dig at Trump and his June 1 announcement that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, but also made good on an appeal Macron made back in February.
The website said senior university faculty members, but also junior researchers and PhD candidates, were eligible to move to France to work on climate change, earth system science or energy transition projects, promising generous financing and help with moving to the country.
It said senior researchers could apply for grants up €1.5 million, which would cover researchers’ salaries, as well as compensation for additional staff and work expenses. Junior researchers could apply for grants of up to €1 million.
“There is no restriction on your husband / wife working in France,” the site reassured scientists, adding: “If you have children, note that French public schools are free, and the tuition fees of universities and “grandes écoles” [highly competitive French universities] are very low compared to the American system.”
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A statement from the first page of the new website;
TO ALL RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS:
On the 1st of June, President Donald Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement, which gathered more than 190 countries united against climate change.
This decision is unfortunate but it only reinforced our determination. Don’t let it weaken yours.
We are ONE planet and Together, we can make a difference.
France has always led fights for human rights. Today, more than ever, we are determined to lead (and win!) this battle on climate change.
Emmanuel Macron, President of France.
The planet needs your innovative skills. So, are you IN to change (literally!) our daily lives and make our planet great again?
Read more: https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr/home
The offer seems genuine. €1.5 Million is serious money, just under USD 1.7 million. The offer for junior researchers is also very generous. I don’t know how many positions are open, so if you are thinking of accepting President Macron’s offer, best to get in quickly.
Paris is an expensive city, but there are plenty of much less expensive French cities which host serious grandes écoles institutions.
France is a socialist nation, with a powerful government. But they also have a strong tradition of liberty, which tends to temper government excesses.
Research your new home carefully. Like many countries France has towns and suburbs blighted by crime. But there are also many beautiful places to live, far away from the chaos and violence in the trouble spots.
Anyone who makes the move will likely be treated as a celebrity. The French love their celebrities.
Sure why not? French national debt is almost 100% of GDP! Why stop there? Of course, they would then be part of the 1% in France and subject to massive taxes (45%+) and social charges (bonus tax for people like climate scientists). Go for it! Just think of the carbon footprint savings the US would have by getting rid of the blowhard’s anyhow?
The maximum US Federal income tax rate, I believe, is 43.5%. (It may go down if the Congress can ever act.)
The maximum California income tax rate, I believe, is 11%. Turns out that, even after deducting your State income tax, high earners in the US are still at around 50% marginal tax rate.
I say believe, because we are no where near those tax brackets. And therein is the difference – maximum tax brackets are reached at much lower incomes in France than here.
As to the asset tax, we annually pay a pretty impressive 1+% on our house hear in Prop-13 land. But that is our only asset tax, other than sales and excise taxes that are paid at the time of purchase.
Our friends in France are not happy with the French asset tax at all. But, then, the folks in France with assets to be taxed don’t comprise a very large proportion of the electorate.
Jim,
How is it that Obama and “Burney” do not pay anywhere near the tax rates you quote. It seems that the elites never pay their fair share.
Please go, good bye, good riddance.
ScienceABC123 June 10, 2017 at 9:22 am
oh do get into the spirit of it, instead ….
“au revoir”
michael
Or… as per Jim G1 above, Auf Weidersehen … (and as per Curious George and others… better yet, Abschied!)
#(:))
“Wiedersehen” (gotta copy that stuff off the translation site more carefully 🙂 )
Janice Moore June 10, 2017 at 10:19 am
Hi Janice,
Like many it has crossed my mind on how to “cash” in on the French Prez’s off. Only problem is Paris is to unsafe. Your chances are better on a moonless night in central park.
Day time the park is great of course.
michael
The blood sucking parasites find a willing, masochistic host: Looks like a ‘Win – Win’ to me!
Viva la Hôte Français!
All I would say to people like Mann or Schmidt–Buh bye!
…And please let the proverbial door hit them in the @ss on the way out…!
Macron is a true showman. He just took over a bankrupt country and is devising schemes to divert attention from the perilous state of affairs. His promise of money will not materialize, maybe for a few show cases.
I can’t wait to see who steps up to make the financial contribution expected of the US before we pulled out.
How long will the Paris treaty/accord (what ever) go on without any cash?
i understand that many “climate scientists” are first off inquiring if France has an extradition treaty with the US.
Eugene WR Gallun
Accurate summary of Macron’s offer. Good quotes.
I sincerely hope that every alarmist climate scientist in the United States takes Macron up on his offer and moves to France.
That will leave the real climate scientists who still believe in the scientific method remaining here in the United States. LOL!!!
Here’s one for Michael Man:
Banyuls-sur-Mer is a charming coastal town on the Mediterranean coast, the last one before the border with Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrannees. Beachside cafes and picturesue coastal walks; and at the south end of the bay is a big white marine research laboratory. Wonderful setting for a sinecure to see out a research career to retirement beside the warm sunny 🌞 Med.
He should go to a rural setting, where it already smells like b.s.
Oh heavens, cold damp Europe? Better the French place our intrepid Climate scientists on a lovely garden spot, in French Polynesia.
I’m sure Dr M.Mann could make himself and his followers a happy home and new and glowing research establishment on the islands of Moruroa and Fangataufa. They would be ideal locales.
If you are not familiar with these lovely atolls Google them.
Michael
That part of the med coast is beautiful. The wine is served using gasoline pumps, BYO large plasm jug…
Plastic jugs… 🙂
Yes, and you pay by weight, not volume. Has the interesting effect that stronger wine has ti be significantly more expensive as it’s lighter.
Over there he’ll be a lot closer to his Nobel prize…
First need to define qualifying parameters of climate scientist before handing out buckets of money to entice them into France.
Does communications psychologist count?
Does Paleogynecologist, with a recent emphasis on atmospheric CO2 concentration on fertility rates of the Hobbit peoples count?
Does Mosher count?
It will be very interesting to see who they think is qualified, and benefit to, this specific field of science.
I was going to say I picked the wrong major, but you make an excellent point. I could also simply claim that I IDENTIFY as a climate scientist, and as good leftists, they would have to accept it as fact. Come to think of it, I ought to be able to claim senior researcher status as well.
I might not have to go so far as to leave the country. Universities ought to hire me as a professor with no questions asked, since I identify as a fully qualified Ivy League professor. Start cutting my checks now. If Yale does not recognize me as a current faculty member, they are clearly hateful bigots who are disrespecting my experiences and making it impossible to live as my authentic self.
Also, patriarchy.
/sarc (most of it)
DonM
Qualifying parameters?
Are you kidding? France don’t need no stinking qualifying parameters.
Franc makes 5 stupid decisions like this every single day…before breakfast (my current favorite is the mandatory & enforced 35-hrour week).
On the count of three, all Climate Whores please move to France.
One…..Two…..
Now, now. Let’s not give whores a bad name! It’s quite a well-respected profession in France…
Regarding the French fighting for human rights, skeptics should review The Terror as it relates to the French Revolution, and as mentioned elsewhere herein, the fact that a band of religious fanatics is executing their own terrorism in France.
SRI
Not to mention a higher percentage of French Jews (29%) were killed in WWII than German Jews (25%).
If I was a “human right”, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want France defending me.
Big time incentive and compensation to draw in people that don’t actually create wealth for society. Meanwhile, https://www.thelocal.fr/20160907/over-14-percent-of-the-french-live-below-poverty-line
Can’t wait to hear how $1.7 million climate science grants are necessary to protect the poor.
Well, the good news is they’ll only have to work 35 hr/week…plus 6 weeks vacation.
There is only one test the French have for you to enter their country.
You must be able to say “Je me rends”
I give up. What does that mean?
” I surrender”
Yep, they even surrender to the politically correct. Only they will need to learn it in German. Ich gebe auf. It’s only a matter of time untill Germany wakes up.
abruti!
tu oublies les millions de morts français lors de la WW1
l’invasion allemande au cours de la WW2 a fait 300000 morts chez les soldats français qui, eux, ne se sont pas rendus.
quant aux anglais ils se sont sauvés dans leur pays depuis dunkerque, mais comme ceux sont des anglo-saxons, eux, ils ne sont pas lâches, bien sûr…
le blitz allemand c’était un très grand pearl harbour mais le problème était que les allemands étaient déjà aux portes de Paris.
tu es un ignorant doublé toi même d’un lâche, a coward.
car ceux qui parlent le plus des soit-disant lâches ne sont pas, en général, les plus courageux.
[From Google Translate,
fool!
You forget the millions of French dead at the WW1
The German invasion during the WW2 caused 300,000 deaths among the French soldiers who did not surrender.
As for the English, they have fled to their country since Dunkirk, but as they are Anglo-Saxons, they are not cowards, of course.
The German blitz was a very large pearl harbor but the problem was that the Germans were already at the gates of Paris.
You are an ignorant doubled yourself of a coward, a coward.
For those who speak the most of the so-called cowards are not, in general, the most courageous.” .mod]
And don’t let the door hit you.
Macron is doubling down — he’s trying to “out 10-year-old” Trump. This is a lesson that Marco Rubio learned during the primaries: You can’t win by trying to be Trump, only moreso. Nobody out 10-year-olds Trump.
I’m tempted to see how much we can add to the kitty. Is there a gofundme page for this? Or, better yet, maybe I can call myself a “climate scientist”.
Good point. I just posted this upthread:
Macron’s offer was a Trump-worthy stroke of PR. (I wonder if Scott Adams will dig it as such.)
Does that offer include climate psychologists, climate theater majors, and climate political scientists? This could make academic ghost towns in some places.
Hey, I’m a climate poet! Pay me!
Eugene WR Gallun
It’s too bad the French income tax rate on this gain will be 90 percent.
I think maybe Penn State grads will match the offer, for exit that is.
Yes, please, piss off to France already
Today, more than ever, we are determined to lead (and win!) this battle on climate change.
France, the country that surrendered in WW2 without firing a single shot in defense of their capital, who scuttled their own navy instead of sending them across the channel to Britain where they could have been a major part of allied forces fighting to free….France! The country who sits in the UN, waits to see how their allies are going to vote, then votes the opposite to demonstrate their “independence” so often that it became a MAD Magazine gag…
THAT France is going to lead a battle?
Having the French as opponents makes the fight a whole lot easier!
They can’t win real battles. They’re left fighting imaginary ones.
Question – will the scientists who move thus become the world’s first official climate refugees?
LOL….or the first climate whores
There are already plenty of those everywhere Lat! 😉
Wow this would be great. Millions of dollars saved in our budget, instead of going to pc drones. Perhaps making it possible to fund actual, worthwhile, research. I hope they take the computer modelers in particular.
To climate alarmists, it was headline news and proof of corruption when Dr. WIllie Soon got $65,000 in grants to support his research. But they have no problem with $1,680,000 in foreign support for a climate alarmist. Skeptics need not apply, and if an alarmist’s research fails to support the Macron government agenda, well he can buy his own air ticket home.
He can have them all at that price, and France will be the global home of perpetual research of a non-problem.
He’s nuttier than a fruitcake.