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US climate scientists worried about their financial future should accept the generous French offer before the offer is withdrawn, or the French grant quota is filled.
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Another “Drain The Swamp” moment!
Ha ha
So France doesn’t have enough m0rons, and wants to import more, not just from Islamic countries, but also from USA. Makes sense. Or not.
Surely they are going to either swim or walk across the Atlantic and not fly?
Bon voyage. Make sure you stay out of the no go zones.
So why do we need so many “climate scientists” (who are self styled) when the ‘debate is settled’? How many rent seekers are required for something that is supposedly beyond reproach? How much worse can they make their message than total annihilation of the human race? Wait and see.
If we promise Prime Minister Zoolander some cute socks and a photo-op, can we get Canada in on this as well?
I nominate David Suzuki. But only if he converts:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/middleeast/france-israel-jews-immigration/index.html
It will be interesting to learn which they acknowledge first: (1) CAGW isn’t real or (2) no-go zones in France are.
… gives new meaning to the phrase, “follow the money”.
I see how the IQ of people in the U.S. will be increased, but how does this increase the IQ of people in France? I’ll probably figure it out as soon as I hit the “Post Comment” button.
Two thoughts.
1) Every euro France pays to the “Climate immigrants” is a euro not going to the UN Green Climate Fund! That is a very good thing.
2) The “Climate immigrants” will be exposed to the French Government and Culture and in short order understand the French version of Citizenship, Nationalism and Racism. “jus sanguis” “right of the blood” and “by the blood”. “jus soli” “right of the soil” and “by the soil”. The “Climate immigrants” are in for a big shock! They are neither “of the soil” i.e. born in France and not “of the blood” i.e. no French mother. But by “jus monnai” “right of money” and “by the money” they will come to understand they are only a new version of the French Foreign Legion. But in modern France does “Service to France” earn “Citizenship” i.e. “jus citoyen” “right of the citizen”? Doubtful. “Saluer” “Salute”.
Ha ha
Don’t let the door hit you in the _$$ on the way out.
Well Napoleon was a ‘small man’ with huge ambition. Macron is , well, a small man with big ambitions. Of course France has been sitting pretty with its nuclear power base load, so perhaps he can afford to play to the gallery a bit here. Of late, however, the UK has ‘stoked up’ French energy requirements using our coal fired capacity as witnessed by the channel connector current flow. Not the case today since it looks like we need the coal production capacity to meet our own needs. At this time of year, if we did away with our remaining coal power we’d be screwed.
As Muldoon, a late NZ Prime Minister said, this will increase the average intelligence level in both countries.
That improves the IQ of both countries.
I’m with you Miner49er
Too bad they couldn’t take them all. Maybe the ones left behind can claim asylum as ‘Climate Change’ refugees.
If France is happy to accommodate surplus Climate Scientists, they should be encouraged to do so. France could become a World Refuge for all our surplus Climate Scientists who at present are producing no useful results, at all, all around the World and being very costly in the process. The Climate Scientists can spend their time in France checking to see if the Science is really settled, and the rest of France can keep working to pay for those parasites.
you’re gonna get sick of all the winning.
I recently read an article that said that around 80% of medical research is garbage.
Maybe we can encourage France to take our medical “researchers” as well?
I can see a trend here in which we can do serious damage to the Federal deficit.
Doesn’t this qualify under the old adage: “Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.”?
We’re just paying France back for all the engineers and scientists that fled France for the US. Before socialized medicine, France used to be a world leader creating new drugs and medical devices. But there hasn’t been any money in it for decades so the best engineers and scientists go to the US. I’d say the US is getting the better deal: Actual life-saving pharmaceuticals and devices vs. climate vaporware..
I’ll let you know if I spot any US climate refugees on the metro…
The most prominent of these refugees, climate-modeler Venkatramani Balaji (NOAA and Princeton) has been involved in projects funded with 99 million dollars and 2.1 million „CPU-hours“ computing time (up to 2012).
Maybe he could numerically anticipate a drought of funds this side of the Atlantic.
Another reason for urgent progress on Brexit. Don’t want to be subsidising these wasters !
No loss here. France can have all of “trash” from the U.S. that they can absorb. Stay tuned for more.
Macron has publicly said he will make the planet a better place. What more do you need? The ego has landed. His plan? To replace 80/20 nuclear plus hydro sustainable zero CO2 24/7 power with weak intermittent windmills that use far more resources /KWh and cause massive and whi olly unnecessary environmental damage . A clueless egomaniac in science fact, then.
No doubt the renewables will be backed up by coal when they aren’t working, like the travesty enacted by his science denying friedn Merkel with Energiewende. You can’t fix stupid. As for the pointless climate scientists, who think pseudo science models prove their prejudices that they fed into them in the first place, they belong on the dole queue, surely? Real science is not climate science, as evinced by statistical models that can never be proven, ipso fact. We simply don’t need that sort of science or these sort ot religious scientists. Better you lose them to France where they can do less damage to the US economy, energy supply and the real climate..
They can become economists, sociologists, weather forecasters, bookmakers, etc. similar discpilines. Correlation is not causation, but it is accep[ted as such in these other unprovable guess industries. Real science isn’t dne or proven by statistical modellers. Just saying what the facts are.
Au revoir, J’espére Adieu.