Guest essay by Eric Worrall
French government broadcaster France24 claims President Macron’s offer of fifty grants is luring climate scientists away from the US to work in France.
US researchers flock to join Macron’s climate change project
Latest update : 2017-12-13
Eighteen climate scientists, 13 of them based in the United States, were on Monday named the first beneficiaries of the research grants linked to French President Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” project, which will see them relocate to France.
“The selected projects are of very high standards and deal with issues that are particularly important,” the jury said in a statement, noting its members had received a total of 1,822 applications, of which 1,123 came from the US. A second round of laureates will be announced “during the course of the spring of 2018”, it said.
Thank you for your answer to this first call, your decision to move and come to Paris. Here you have a hub to do more. pic.twitter.com/TFoGRLG5J8
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 11, 2017
In all, a total of 50 research grants will be handed out, lasting a minimum of three years and worth between €1 million and €1.5 million each.
Among Monday’s 18 laureates were senior researchers from prestigious US universities, including Venkatramani Balaji from Princeton, Nuria Teixido from Stanford University and Louis Derry from Cornell University. Although the vast majority of the laureates are currently based in the US, they also include researchers from Canada, India, Italy, Poland and Spain.
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I don’t believe most climate research and government sponsored energy projects yield sufficient benefit to justify public funding, but it is possible to oppose public funding, yet still feel sorry for people who are about to lose their jobs.
If France is happy to step into the breach, who are we to argue? The French people set their own priorities. I’m glad US climate scientists on the brink of losing their funding have other options.
US climate scientists worried about their financial future should accept the generous French offer before the offer is withdrawn, or the French grant quota is filled.
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Sacre bleu! France will have their climate change stopped in its tracks while ours will go on and on forever. Pauvre, pauvre Amérique.
Adios! As opposed to au revoir (I don’t want to meet them again).
Jim
They’re actually following the money. 😀
Pity Michael Mann was not among the researchers leaving.
Mann probably applied, but was not selected. Too much bs in that resume.
He really should because he wanted trench warfare, we could have the Western Front again.
One way airline tickets?
Is there such a thing as “half-way” airline tickets?
Is there a way to send the CAGW activists to France while we keep the climate scientists working on a better understanding of climate systems?
As a serious comment I haven’t seen many climate scientists who have the physics skill set to get a better understanding, you really need more hard science types. The consensus and political rubbish in the field is toxic and seems to be limiting hard science types entering the field.
France can waste money on whatever they want. C’est la vie.
Oh, and remember — climate science is strictly about the science and not at all influenced by money or politics.
More power to them. I just hope the proposals accepted by the French are in areas that really need studying, and that the academics involved are true scientists and not activists. There is still much of the Earth’s climate that is not yet, and may never be understood, but still worth studying.
Note that NONE of the very-scary predictions by the IPCC and its minions have ever proven correct. They have a perfectly NEGATIVE predictive track record, and thus NEGATIVE CREDIBILITY.
Write me a note when ONE of these fr@udsters makes ONE correct prediction about global warming, wilder weather, etc. I’ve been waiting for thirty years and they STILL have not got anything correct.
Quelle surprise!
The article does not say that the “climate scientists” must move to France in order to collect their grants. Might they stay in the US, and still get their money? That would be terrible. For the US that is.
‘Eighteen climate scientists, 13 of them based in the United States, were on Monday named the first beneficiaries of the research grants linked to French President Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” project, which will see them relocate to France.’
So it’s true you’re getting rid of some CO2 exhalers and lowering your emissions and I can’t think of a better way of observing these international obligations can you?
The lines you quoted did not say they were going to France. It said they are getting money from France. We can’t reduce our emissions of CO2 or bovine dejecta if they stay here.
English: Make Our Planet Great Again or MOPGA.
French: Rendre sa grandeur à notre planete, parfois abrégé or RSGANPPA
Hmmmm!
Don’t worry, the American tax system will know how to find you.
Do they need help packing?
And if it was a one-way journey how many do you think the get?
Maybe they will rever to the Réaumur scale to make it easier to fudge the data further.
Ok, so the first – Venkatramani Balaji – is an “associate professor.” So maybe lack of tenure is an issue. Whatever.
The second – Nuria Teixido – has a page here http://nuriateixido.info/ where she states that she is “a research associate at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy and a research visitor at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University.” Disingenuous to refer to her as one of the “senior researchers from prestigious US universities” or “currently based in the US.”
The last – Louis Derry – did his post-doc in France. I don’t know if he has tenure yet, but he didn’t as of 2009, which was 13 yrs after joining the faculty at Cornell. Interestingly, he worked in the mining industry and also for Chevron, so he’s part eeeeeeeeevil.
Much ado about nothing. If they offered grant money for other fields, they’d have a good response.
Thanks for this info – I hadn’t recognized any of the names and was wondering where the truly great US climate scientists were.
France’s Climate Plan Making our planet great again
https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr/ClimatPlan
One highlight:
The Climate gangreen want to fight the heat of global warming by insulating homes to conserve…heat.
Scratch. Head.
Frederic Insulation is one of the most economic investments available. Economic optimum insulation is about double most recommendations. And with optimal insulation, the heat inside the building from lights and people provide most of the heat needed – so need to control ventilation rates. Note that with higher insulation, the outside balance temperature falls, reducing the conventional “heating degree days”.
These grants will create a lot of jobs. The unemployment rate may even drop under 9% in a year or two. And France will be on a way to get a lot of Nobel Peace Prizes, Oscars, and many Palme d’Or.
Chances are a lot of these people will end up with a Palme d’Idiot once the EU funding runs out.
Hey! Are you in the Infinity War movie, or not?
Please, take our so-called climate scientists. Then don’t call us, we’ll call you.
Any one up for generating a list of candidates for the second round of Macron’s grand RSGANPPA? (See above at 2:44 PM for for translation.)
maybe a GoFundMe to raise money for their relocation?
Good news – don’t come back.
This is just Macron’s way of helping Trump drain the swamp. How thoughtful!
A funny PR move would be for Trump to donate some federal bucks (maybe Obama-legacy climate dollars) to Macron to expand his second round (for American designees).
Virtue signaling to the next level and good riddance.
The steam generated by all of France;s nuclear power stations are going to scare the burning pants off those guys when they get there.
Doesn’t France already have a national hockey team?
France is probably a better choice for emigrant climate scientists than, say. Italy. The Italians have been known to indict and convict scientists who make inaccurate predictions. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/ (Their manslaughter conviction was overturned on appeal).