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.
The French are dedicated to the intellect. There’s a problem with that. They train their top bureaucrats to be intellectuals.
The French take pride in shoving philosophy down the throats of their students. link
One of my profs, a German, was of the opinion that nobody should be exposed to philosophy before the age of thirty. Before that age, there is the strong danger the student will take it seriously.
The net result is that Germany is a better place to live and the French seem to agree. link
Can we get him to expand the offer to include all those with a PhD in “…Studies”, or the “Social Sciences”?
France. The childish, arrogant and unbathed. It’ll be like working for Michael Moore. Lol.
‘Grievance Studies’ AKA ‘Clown Quarter’ AKA ‘Angry Studies’ AKA ‘Offended Olympics’?
A Serious Offer
There are so many things wrong here (1.5Mill?) apart from Monsoor Macron’s eyes being too close together.
(Sorry, that was petty but 1st impressions really do count)
We are seeing a snake-oil salesman at work here..
Don’t fall for what alarmists love to talk about, namely= Big Numbers
US climate scientists are already in the top ten earning bracket with 6 figure+ salaries. $1M is nothing.
Takers uppers of this will be financially, verbally and linguistically abused. The French do have liberte & equalite etc and Don’t They Know It.
See elderly Japanese couples coming back from romantic breaks in Paris on anti-depressants. anti hypertension pills etc after encountering Parisian taxi drivers.
The only good English incomers will encounter will be folks either asking for money or, verbally abusing them for not handing it over.
Free money like this will disappear leek the proverbial melting snow.
And from what I’ve read from French correspondents on a UK renewable energy forum, if you don’t know what blend of Cognac the local mayor likes, (and satisfy his thirst), life is just not worth living. You will disappear into bureaucratic mire that will sap your entire will to live.
Even climate scientists aren’t *that* dumb…
Yes the are, and stop trying to warn them
Good riddance! Let them bamboozel the frogs while they still believe in pseudocience
This cannot be serious.
Viva La France!
I wonder how they feel about taking a few skinny jean wearing antifa types?
I just did the research. Basic conclusion: Professorial salary, 1/2 of here..but assured life time employment (even after 65). Cost of living, Paris…DOUBLE. With the 1.7 Million, certainly can make a comfortable life. (Hard ship of learning French. Pourquoi, au nom du ciel, apprend-tu à parler français, quand vous pourriez apprendre une langue utile, en tant que Chinois? All in all, NOT A HARDSHIP, really! Now, whether the USA will allow you to SUCK OFF THE TEAT of the $6 Billion Gorebull warming trough…that remains to be seen.
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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.
Just confirms everyone’s suspicion that he is a puppet.
I think Lindzen already lives in France. Ahead of the curve once more.
One could hope that the only restriction with the offer is that they’d have Lindzen as their boss.
Just imagine what he could do by spending that money on something that actually reduced warming.
Let’s say there are 10k climate scientists that would take the offer, and that the actual payout was only $1M/ea. That’s $10 billion (with a “B”). If I had that money to spend on climate, we could already be heading back to a full glacial ice age.
Until now, I quite liked Macron.
You can continue to like him. He’s doing us a big service.
Once all the alarmist malarkey is coming from France, any credibility CAGW may have had will vanish overnight.
Gee – his own ones must be pretty crap, eh? Maybe he should pay his own scientists more!
Isn’t France run on Nuclear Power? Doesn’t that run contrary to the tenants of the Climate Alarmists Religion?
He who pays the piper calls the tune. Climate ‘science’ at the level of macroneyism of a*se-crawling hirelings.
People keep saying that but I keep not getting paid!
Guy down the street named Peter gets paid in pecks of pickled peppers.
Fools and their money are soon parted.
the climate is NOT a force, it has no power and CANT cause any weather event…….same as a baseball players batting average it exerts ZERO control over the outcome of their next at bat…….climate and batting averages are statistics from the PAST
I would disagree. Weather is an event measured by a particular instrument at a point in time. It is a noun. Climate is a pronoun that modifies weather. So climate is the statistical probability of that weather event occurring. Climate is not a noun juxtaposed to weather, it is a component of weather. There is only weather.
are you kidding? climate is a NOUN….and it in no way modifies the weather……IF it did you could NOT have cold spells in summer(just had one here) you could NOT have warm days in winter(happens every year)….and the “probability” is a STATISTIC just as i said the climate is a set of states derived from the weather data from the previous 30 years for a given area…….
$1.7 milionl for one person, but a team would cost that just to move. Then the grant is exhausted where there is no money for work upon arrival. Then there is no infrastructure to support their work. Then they have to learn French. A grant to move a research team would seem to cost more like $30 million. Also, under French labor laws if you dare hire someone and have to lay them off due to lack of grant money, you owe them a year of salary.
Nothing will come of this. No one will be hired to go to France to continue their Climate Change science. It will be just a disappointment for us.
English translation of Macron’s dig at Trump:
Of course one must know how to speak French and Arabic. Burqas may be required for female scientists, and anyone with a history of interest in Marine LePen will be quickly escorted to the guillotine.
Something about not being in it for the money comes to mind.
That’s more money than most people see in their lifetime. I say go for it, O climate saviors. France will be in a state of economic failure and civil war in about ten years. Won’t be much money for foie gras or nifty science projects.
France is so needy . 75 years ago they wanted the USA soldiers to come over and save their ass and now the one of the first priorities of the baby faced President is to ask the USA to send climate scientists .
My oh my what short memories they have .
Next time they surrender to Germany or Russia who are they going to call ? Moving companies ?
Amber,
My father was one of those soldiers.
He and his fellows stopped an advance by SS mountain troops at Wingen France early January 1945.
It was the last German offensive of the war.
They received a Presidential Unit Citation.
It should be noted that the people of Wingen have not forgotten and honor these men to this day.
I can assure you that they appreciate what those young men did as much as I do, if not more.
I’ll add a “PS” here to my comments below.
The problem is rarely the people not remembering, though memories may fade in later generations, but those who govern choosing to forget.
rebelronin
Wingen France has a population of 470
(my dad was WWII USMC)
Armies sometimes meet in small places.
Especially when there’s a road and a rail line.
There is Signal Corp footage of the place at that time – easy google.
WWII reenactment is big in France.
Reference for American soldiers appears high far as I can tell.