From the AGU, tales of woe.
Prestigious Climate-Related Fellowships Rescinded
Last March, Katie Travis, who was finishing a Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University, got what seemed like a major boost for her budding career: She had been selected as one of eight fellows for the 2017 class of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) prestigious Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. But the announcement came with an ominous caveat—NOAA program managers did not actually have the money in hand.
This past August, Travis learned that her fellowship offer had been rescinded because of budget cuts. “This was the first grant I wrote myself,” she said. “It was really validating for me to be selected, which is why it’s so crushing that the program ended up the way it did.”
Three other scientists chosen for the fellowships also found their offers revoked. With only four fellows ultimately accepted in 2017, the prestigious program is now funding fewer researchers than it ever has since it was launched in 1991. At least two other postdoctoral fellowship programs in the United States for climate scientists have also been defunded or put on hold, giving young climate scientists fewer options for continuing their careers.
Illustrious Alumni
The Climate and Global Change (CGC) program has built a reputation for preparing scientific leaders, said emeritus climate researcher Richard Somerville of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who served on the program’s steering committee in the 1990s.
Some 90% of the program’s 218 alumni have gone on to academic positions, according to program documents. Alumni include Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York; Heidi Cullen, chief scientist for the nonprofit organization Climate Central in Princeton, N.J.; and Jeff Severinghaus, a Scripps paleoclimatologist recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
full story here: https://eos.org/articles/prestigious-climate-related-fellowships-rescinded
Given the alumni list, it seems to me that a climate alarmist manufacturing program has been shut down.
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Given the alumni list, it seems to me that a climate alarmist manufacturing program has been shut down.
Y E S !
+100
A quick scan and I don’t see many names I recognise.
The man who threatened to sue the IPCC if they did not remove his name, since they flattly refused all his expert advice and comments !
+1,000!
When I was in the Air Force, we saw programs all the time that pretty much rationalized their own existence; we called them “self-licking ice cream cones”. That’s exactly what this fellowship is.
Just another Sotero award to cause bad will for the incoming administration.
Sorry honey, we have a higher need for diseased hookers than for more CAGW PhDs…
The Climate and Global Change (CGC) program has built a reputation for preparing climactic leaders
aka drama queens
…The Climate and Global Change (CGC) program has built a reputation for preparing climactic leaders..
Now preparing anticlimactic leaders, perhaps?
Climactic leaders ? I thought Harvey Weinstein was the climactic leader of the whole world?
“Some 90% of the program’s 218 alumni have gone on to academic positions…”.
Perhaps some of these people in the monkey business field of climate change (a sneaky way of saying global warming) will now understand how the thousands of real scientists have felt over the last few decades as global warming research sucked up the big grants. The false “science” has ruined far, far too many scientific careers. Imagine the $billions wasted that could have gone to the benefit of mankind.
“Some 90% of the program’s 218 alumni have gone on to academic positions…”
That alone is sufficient to prove that the program has been a failure.
DITTO!!!
We are the Climate Alarmists…You will be assimilated…Resistance is futile
We are the Climate Realists…We will not be assimilated…Persistence is futile
Heh, the CAMP program. Guess there won’t be any CAMP-ing any more.
Dang, messed up my tags. 🙁
Not before time. After all the science was settled over 10 years ago. That’s what we were told by the politicians, and none of the Government-funded “climate scientists” disagreed.
Why need new scientists for “Settled” science though? That’s like hiring people to draw the same circle over and over again.
In other news, Ford wants to train people to reinvent the wheel….lol.
They actually need new recruits for their Ministry of Truth, since propaganda is a never-ending process.
+1000
Draining the swamp, as promised.
This is nothing to do with the swamp, which BTW has not shown the slightest drop in water level since Trump was inaugurated.
Trump has had his balls chewed off by the alligators, don’t expect any drainage operations in the near future.
I think you are reading at leftist sites. Try Gateway Pundit.
Agree Climate Otter. The MSM and the leftward sites are covering what’s emerging as thoroughly as they covered Climategate and as honestly as they cover the !!!Climate Crisis!!!
Poor Greg, your manic desperation is showing 🙂
ignorant and angry is no way to go thru life Greg
Andrew McCabe begs to differ with you.
I guess you were sleeping the day there was a three foot drop in the swamp when Scott Pruitt took over the EPA.
You are mistaking the water level in the septic tank you operate from, for DC’s swamp water level. Septic systems are not allowed to drain into waterways; so if your septic level is climbing, it’s your own fault.
The swamp’s water level is down substantially and may of those alligators are caught in cyclonic drain swirls of their own devising. Many are going down for their third time.
Be patient Greg, I can hear the fat lady warming up in the wings.
and Hillary is ahead in the polls by 90%. You need to get out more.
Swamp draining, especially for such a large swamp, happens one bucket-load of swamp crap at a time.
Right on. A more deserving grant group never existed. Go Pruitt! Now we need to hear publically from the new science team.
No doubt “return on investment” meant papers supporting an agenda.
What else could it mean? What other reasonable meaning of “return” could there be?
They could claim overall papers but I don’t think that would fly.
Great news for the climate and the taxpayer. The universities have been using phoney ‘Climate Change’ aka ‘Global Warming’ as a cash cow for too long.
I’m in Nth Queensland, Aus. where some bright spark introduced the cane toad, bufo marinus abt 100 years ago. It is spreading relentlessly south and through the northern wetlands to Darwin to the sounds of much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
One would think that the 99% die off in coastal towns in NQ would raise some academic interest to find out why, but a general web search finds nothing. No money, no interest it seems.
[The mods request you clarify if the 99% dieoff (of cane toads we assume) is considered a “good thing” for people, a “bad thing” for cane toads, or a “thing that needs to be funded and investigated by me/my group/my lab of cane toad research associates.” 8<) .mod]
Thank you for taking this seriously. I have spoken of it elsewhere without stirring any interest.
First I must explain where my 99% came from: As a boy in the ’50s whenever it rained we played golf with the toads that collected under street lights. In the morning there were squashed toads all over the roads and moving any iron sheets would disturb them. Today I barely see any from one year to the next. Clearly my 99% is totally unscientific which I accept as bad on a science blog.
IMHO the die off is a good thing for people if for no other reason than they are ugly. Much more importantly it is good for nature – The toads exude poison from glands at the back of the head which kills predators. There are grave concerns that they will badly damage Kakadu National Park.
Possible reasons I have thought of which may have caused this reduction since I was a boy:
1/ The demise of the back yard chook pen. The food, water and hiding places under the nesting boxes made a perfect habitat for them.
2/ Tidier yards generally. People no longer store used building materials and smaller yards and motor mowers mean little long grass.
3/ Better town drainage.
If these things account for the population decline there is no relevance to toad control in the wild.
4/ There are stories that crows flip them on their back and eat the stomach.
5/ I’ve heard researchers say that the snakes are developing smaller heads so they can’t eat the larger, more poisonous specimens.
6/ Is wildlife generally learning to cope and/or developing immunity?
7/ What if there is a virus? That would be cool to know about.
If you see this as a research project you have my best wishes and thanks.
Is nothing sacred?
Cane toads are killing crocodiles in Australia
Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com
July 30, 2008
Australia’s number one pest, the cane toad, devastates freshwater crocodile populations
The cane toad has been a scourge to Australian wildlife for decades. An invasive species, the cane toad competes with local endemic frog species and due to its high toxicity kills any predator who preys on it, including snakes, raptors, lizards, and the carnivorous marsupial, northern quoll. New research has uncovered another victim of the toad. The freshwater crocodile has suffered massive population declines due to consuming the irascible toad.
Australia’s freshwater crocodile is not the brawny reptile of the Crocodile Dundee movies or the ones Steve Irwin wrestled. Those are the larger, more dangerous salt water crocodiles. Freshwater crocodiles, also known as Johnston’s Crocodile, are about half the size of their saltwater cousins and do not pose a threat to humans. They prey largely on fish, amphibians, and birds, yet they are the top predators in their habitat.
Starve the cockroaches out
waiting for moderation? Never happened before. It’s about time you had a white list of people who don’t break rules and have been commenting here since the early days. Disappointing.
“waiting for moderation” is nothing to get worried about. It happens to me a few times a month, and I have many comments here. Now you know, so don’t be disappointed — it happens to the best of us [self aggrandizing not intended].
The first four letters of the third word of your post is probably what sent you into moderation.
The filters they use here aren’t very smart.
A whitelist would benefit those trollops who spoof valid user names.
The current method works just fine.
..wouldn’t a ‘Whitelist’ provoke a ‘Blacklash’ ?
We’ll just Whitewash it.
i think using the term ‘cockroaches’ to mean humans has a very evil history. I’d have moderated that comment out of existence.
So if I said ‘ they are scurrying like c*ckroaches’ you would feel it’s ok?
““This was the first grant I wrote myself,” she said.”
I’ll always remember my first grant.
Well if she can write here own grants, she won’t need to be applying for an public money. Maybe she meant grant application.
She should mining bitcoins in China instead of climate grants.
There’s good money to be made writing grant applications and proposals in the corporate world. $75/hour was a going rate several years ago on a 1099 basis. Probably a lot better than academic pay, though of course you actually have to produce something.
We all weep for her, perhaps we can send donations.
I was working at a Grocery Chain in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We received our pay vouchers, then lined up at a cash register to receive our pay in cash.
Gee.
I remember my first paycheck.
I got cash! 1.47/hr, $47/week in a little brown envelope through a glass window.
My first job at a major employer (a grocery store) paid 42 cents an hour, or about $16 a week before taxes. By the time I left that job, three years later, I was up to 85 cents an hour. Since I rode my bike to work, the pay seemed good to me. On the other hand, in the late 1950s, gasoline was less than 20 cents per gallon.
In a much later job, I wrote grant applications for a non-profit ballet company of which I was Managing Director. Some of the applications were directed to city governments where the ballet performed, but most were to private firms that could write off contributions to arts organizations. Writing those applications was hard work–some of the hardest in a difficult job–but I always felt better about the money we derived from private sources. Perhaps this young woman could try applying for grants–or even jobs–at places that can use her specific skills.
#MeToo-
Like others, it was in cash, and the dollars were in Silver Certificates.
The water level of the Swamp is definitely going down now.
Now things are starting to get real. The projected budget rise did not occur, the funding floods are receding fast and the spending caps did not melt.
Will these Political Climate Change refugees all move to France?
Even France throws away money at those distinguished climate refugee “scientists” just for 4 years.
Imagine the meltdown when Trump is reelected and the exile drags on without (other people’s) money.
““This was the first grant I wrote myself,” she said.”
What matters is the first granD you earn yourself, instead of sucking off the taxpayers’ teats, baby.
Hi ho, hi ho!
It’s off to France you go! (tip: learn to love garlic)
France is overflooded.
As Pistol said:-
Act 2, Scene 3, London. Before a tavern
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Since Haaaaaavard is a huge advocate of CAGW, they should fund Travis’ research out of their $37 BILLION Alumni Trust Fund, which, BTW, is probably worth well over $40 Billion by now given the DJIA is up 41% since “evil” Trump’s election (Oh, the irony)….
I hope Travis sad story serves as a cautionary tale to bright young students who have bought into the CAGW sc@m, and are contemplating specializing in Climatology/CAGW research to “help save the world”…
There is no future in the CAGW industry..
ALL the negative externalities of this crazy CAGW ho@x are astounding with $trillions wasted on: EPA compliance costs, increased energy costs, destruction of coal industry, young scientists wasting their precious time on this disconfirmed CAGW hypothesis, higher unemployment from CAGW’s negative effects on US competitiveness, misallocation of land/labor/capital, etc.,..
This Travis story simply shows why it is so important the CAGW hypothesis be officially disconfirmed ASAP.
Bright minds and taxpayers’ money are a terrible things to waste.
Any young AGW believer thinking they should aim for grant money..
… should apply the Precautionary Principle, and look for actual work instead.
Yabbut the precautionary principle may indicate that it would be wise to look for real work AND submit another grant application.
If we could find a less harmful place for those “bright” minds than climate alarmism, I’d be fine with taxpayer money going into putting and keeping them there.
Every once in a while, I imagine that, in an alternate universe, Bill Nye stayed where he was and is now a principal engineer in designing Boeing airplanes. That always calls for a drink to stop the shudders…
http://www.mytinyphone.com/uploads/users/anaverry/173700.jpg
Trump should keep the funding, and put it into science that disproves CAGW. In 7 years Trump will be gone. Science lats for ever. If he really wants to kill CAGW, then this is the way to do it.
Gee, can’t expect universities to fund any research – they receive grants, not create them.
The science is settled so no further climate reasearch is required. The federal government is deep in debt and does not have any money to be spending on climate science. Any way the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control so there is nothing that we can do to change climate change so trying to do so is just a tofal waste of money that we donot have.
Yup – plus, even if the Eco-Fascist doom stories were 100% real, their “solutions” wouldn’t do a damn thing about it that is measurable. ADAPTATION is the one, and ONLY, way to “deal with” so-called “climate change” or for that matter, ACTUAL climate change (as you described it).
The program’s annual budget, which has fluctuated around $2 million, “is among the best dollars NOAA spends in terms of return on investment,”
Gov practice to deal with budget cuts
1) fund anything you fancy, that you would have a hard time justifying. Most political/useless things.
2) find some human shield who will complain about the cut. Some one people will love: nurses. firefighters, or if those are out of scope, a young pretty girl with sweets dreams of research will do.
“But the announcement came with an ominous caveat”
Fluffy kitten cut down in prime when “This was the first grant I wrote myself,”
Here my dear let me help you out with the ominousity of it all- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42827333
Oh, the irony of BBC liberals being hoist by their own petard.
So, the women weren’t worth the men’s salary, but the men were worth the women’s…
Leftist equality at its finest.
Pull those above you down to your level. They certainly couldn’t be more deserving or harder working then you.
You know what gets me the most about the gender pay gap? You seem to only really find it in places controlled by leftists – Hollywood, Education, Silicon Valley, ect. Places filled with Conservatives and Blue Collar workers usually don’t even have the ability to pay people on anything other then seniority and job performance.
~¿~
3) When faces with budget cuts, cut those things that hurt the public the most, first.
{Hint: Don’t use Naomi Oreskes – no points there}
Just another example of how recipients of advanced degrees are ill prepared to serve in the private sector.
My grant application was refused – “How to run an aluminum smelter plant on solar and wind power” I wondered why.
Because of Trump, of course. Otherwise it would had been accepted.
searched “solar production aluminum”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245367184_Solar_Production_of_Aluminum_by_Direct_Reduction_Preliminary_Results_for_Two_Processes
“At least two other postdoctoral fellowship programs in the United States for climate scientists have also been defunded or put on hold, giving young climate scientists fewer options for continuing their careers.”
In other news, promising young phrenology “scientist,” Fila Bump, reports that her grant-seeking quest was unsuccessful. Her academic colleague, Giusta Droppe, a promising homopathy “scientist” blames her failed search for taxpayer slush funds on Trump, “He’s evil and wants children to die,” she screeched in a phone interview last night.
Mass psychosis comes and goes, including in the fake “science research” field.
Maybe the next step will be funding of actual science–like the science that put Americans on the moon. Not the “science” that put Mikey Mann on the cover of Time.
Hysterics 101
Fila Bump – phrenology
Giusta Droppe – homopathy
very fitting.
“…It was really validating for me to be selected…”
Getting a Ph.D. from Harvard and still needing “validation.”
Bad deal to have finances awarded then revoked, though.
Finances were explicitly not awarded
I suppose it’s possible that there are a few actual babies floating in this befouled water, but I’m afraid that the loss of their funding will be well worth the draining of this cesspool. I suggest that all would-be applicants and cancelled grant recipients who are worried about CAGW immediately move to France. M. Macron wants you bad.
Agreed – Bragging about “successes” like Gavin Schmidt and Heidi Cullen is kind of like bragging about being the educational institution that turned out the likes of Benito Mussolini and Patricia Krenwinkel.
No money, but I think she should at least get a certificate suitable for framing.
(been there, done that)