Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to “Nobel prize co-winner” Michael Mann and other authors, universities should be ranked and staff should be promoted based on how strongly they support climate action.
Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency
Universities have a responsibility to prepare students for an uncertain future, 11 scholars from around the world argue
September 27, 2019By Jean S. Renouf, Michael E. Mann , John Cook , Christopher Wright , Will Steffen , Patrick Nunn, Pauline Dube, Jean Jouzel , Stephan Lewandowsky, Anne Poelina and Katherine Richardson
Twitter: @Drjsrenouf, @MichaelEMann, @johnfocook, @ChristopherWr11, @PatrickNunn3, @STWorg and @KRichardsonC…
Through the voices of Greta Thunberg, the School Strikes for Climate and the Fridays For Future, youth everywhere are loud and clear in calling for societies to change. Placards at protests around the world read: “Why should anyone study for a future when no one is doing enough to save our future?”; “Climate change is worse than homework”; “If you don’t act like adults, we will”; and “The climate is changing, why aren’t we?”.
Universities have a particular role to play when it comes to acting for the planet. As large institutions, universities’ carbon and environmental footprints are significant, and this alone should be a strong enough incentive to act. But, universities also have the responsibility to be honest with their students and prepare them for a changing climate because whatever jobs they seek after graduation will be fundamentally reshaped by an increasingly variable climate and frequent and unprecedented climate extremes.
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Mainstreaming ecological and climate action across all disciplines. Universities would ensure that all students, regardless of the discipline and level of study, understand specific climate impacts and possible remedial action in their line of work.
This would be reflected in curricula, university rankings, graduate attributes, as well as in staff performance measurements, including those of high executives.
Interdisciplinary teaching and research activities on global environmental challenges, resilience and solutions would be prioritised and invested in. Collective action, community engagement, partnerships, sharing best practices, and open platforms for innovation would be promoted.
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Read more: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/why-universities-need-declare-ecological-and-climate-emergency#survey-answer
The academics who authored this demand are from the following universities;
| Jean S. Renouf | Southern Cross University |
| Michael E. Mann | Penn State Earth System Science Center |
| John Cook | George Mason University |
| Christopher Wright | University of Sydney |
| Will Steffen | Australian National University |
| Patrick Nunn | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| Pauline Dube | University of Botswana |
| Jean Jouzel | Atomic Energy Commission in France |
| Stephan Lewandowsky | University of Bristol |
| Anne Poelina | University of Notre Dame Australia |
| Katherine Richardson | University of Copenhagen |
It is a little disappointing to see Australia so well represented in a demand that promotion opportunities and university rankings be governed by climate zeal rather than academic excellence.
Perhaps the Peter Ridd case is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the apparent ongoing attack on academic freedom in Australian institutions.
If you have any children or grandchildren considering higher education, I suggest you think very carefully about this before sending your kid to an Australian university, or any of the universities on the list.
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As the Pope of Global Alarmism and the Church of The Globe doth Warm, you overstepped decorum mikey. The Pope Declares but never Demands Man(n). Besides 90% of our nations Universities have already adopted the scare tactic of the Globe doth Warm as an integral tenet of their leftist Democratic Socialist Religion.
Once nationalized demands will be unnecessary. The remaining 10% will fall in line or be banished from the practice of indoct…ahh education
“Should be promoted based on how strongly they support climate action”. Not on how knowledgable they are, how good they are at teaching or how useful their research is then? Just how loyal they are to the climate alarm religion and how ‘strongly’ they can make their research fit the pre-ordained expected alarm results.
Could you imagine a commercial company admitting you will only be employed and promoted based on how strongly you brown nose the boss?
John Cook at scholar, that’s good one. He can’t even count. He thinks 5/100= 97%
“scholars” should be rewarded for how politically biased they can be.
That’s it. The word scholar comes from a latin word meaning lie, cheat and falsify research as much as you can.
“If you don’t act like adults, we will”
Cool when does that start happening?
Hot,
Knowledge, quality of research or teaching are irrelevant.
We need a Climate Action NOW! Before our civilization freezes in CAGC!! Action now, before the (ice) Hockey Stick points its blade DOWN!!!
Brown-nosing is one thing; lying for a personal/cause advancement is quite another one…
”We need a Climate Action NOW!”
I always tell them that if they really want climate action, to put on a tin foil hat and go outside during an electrical storm. They should get all the climate action they can handle.
So succinctly, simply and undeniably put. thank you.
This is Mann’s plan to dumb-down the University system.
Universities that declare a climate emergency should immediately implement the following:
1. Ban all student and faculty cars from campus.
2. Set heating thermostats to 65F.
3. Set air conditioning to 85F.
4. Replace parking lots with solar panel arrays
5. Install windmills on all athletic fields.
6. Once 4 and 5 complete, run all lights off solar and wind power.
Joe
Nice list, I would only change one thing…
6. Once 4 and 5 are complete sever all ties to grid sourced electricity to virtue signal complete divestiture from all potential fossil sourced electricity.
Once 4 and 5 complete, run all lights off solar and wind power.
So No air conditioning No need for thermostats.
All computers as well.
If you want to make universities really scream, tell them no more income from sporting events.
All those unnecessary automobile trips and rich alumni flying in — the CO2 burden of a college football game is huge.
Can’t have that.
Not reset thermometers; they should shut off the heat and A/C.
I’m sure Manniacal has a chair. He can always open the window.
They should install the largest wind turbine available right outside of Manniacal’s window. And forbid his changing offices for a decade.
They should install a pedal operated generator on Manniacal’s office chair. When he wants to access the internet or use his computer, he can pedal while accessing.
The kids will handle those temperatures better than the aging professors. When I was young I lived with no AC for a while. It was uncomfortable but I managed. I could never do it now “in the autumn of my years”, haha.
7. And computers!
The totalitarians are on the march all across the board.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+wall+marching+hammers&view=detail&mid=D87FE663325D1273727DD87FE663325D1273727D&FORM=VIRE
So universities need to prepare students for an uncertain future. So true. Ironic that so much uncertainty, at least the economic and political, are exacerbated by the alarmist hype and manipulation. I guess that is one way to improve university job security – providing the ‘solutions’ to imagined problems.
The future is always uncertain. Always has been, always will be.
I’m not sure sure about that
“But, universities also have the responsibility to be HONEST with their students and prepare them for a changing climate because whatever jobs they seek after graduation will be fundamentally reshaped BY AN INCREASINGLY VARIABLE CLIMATE and FREQUENT AND UNPRECEDENTED EXTREMES.” (emphasis added).
The intelligentsia have a long history of being incredibly stupid and on the wrong side of many historical issues. These nine members of the intelligentsia have put their name to a letter that is contradictory and obviously totalitarian in nature. The first contradiction is pointing out that the future is uncertain, then demanding that everyone do as they say because they know what the future will bring. The second is demanding Universities be honest in the same sentence in which they lie to the Universities. The scientific evidence clearly shows that the climate is NOT increasingly variable and that extremes are NOT becoming more frequent. That is only happening in computer models created to show such things. Insisting that every University on the planet teach their unsubstantiated ideas or face the consequences of a low ranking, is totalitarian to the core.
(Note: Intelligentsia are people who make money selling ideas. There are two ways of doing this. The first is to come up with very good ideas. This takes actual intelligence and is very uncommon among the intelligentsia. The second way is to manipulate an unsuspecting public into believing that your ideas are valuable, usually through fear, intimidation, an imaginary moral high ground, an imaginary claim to authority, propaganda and any number of psychological tricks of persuasion. This second method is the M.O. of 97% of the intelligentsia. It requires cleverness and low moral character, but it does not require above average intelligence. This letter to the Universities is an excellent example of the ladder at work.)
JC,
Appreciation of the clear, logical way you presented this. Geoff S
Perfect! You, St. James, have demonstrated irrefutably how 97% of the intelligentsia believe they are smarter than everyone else, even other members of the intelligentsia, and that the rest of us poor schlubs should genuflect, tug our forelocks, quiver, and OBEY any time any Intelligent One says anything. THEY MUST BE BELIEVED! (The Maisie Hirono Theorem)
Hmmmmn, the best way of selling that idea is to appeal to the inner narcissist of every progressive. They will believe anything as long as you tell them they’re smarter than those that don’t believe. Basic cult psychology.
“The intelligentsia have a long history of being incredibly stupid and on the wrong side of many historical issues.”
Not so; they are not stupid.
Their pronouncements and suggested policies are intentional and purposeful. Their goal is total control of the unwashed masses and the implementation of their worldview upon the savage hordes.
And they, the intelligentsia, will be the ones determining how the savage hordes will be compelled to follow their edicts.
But we have seen all of this before; e.g., Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Chavez, Maduro, Honnecker, Ulbricht… just to name a few… so we know how it will unfold.
Never underestimate their determination, their intellect or their true intentions.
This would be why one of my nephews is going to trade school to become a plumber, and the other is an officer in the merchant marine. Our universities are producing a generation of indoctrinated, traumatized idiots who can get part-time barista jobs on their best day while living in their long-suffering parents’ basements.
Doesn’t Greta have all qualifications needed to lead a modern university preparing the womankind for a coming age of Gretenism?
Ah yes, Gretenism. . . In the World of the Rosy Future, everyone will gladly consent to be chewed out by ignorant, peevish, neurotic teenagers. What a paradise! The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a hellhole by comparison.
I bet if you asked any grad student at Penn State, they would tell you that policy is currently in place at the University.
Same at George Mason and many others.
And yet there are still trolls out there who insist that anyone who is worried about being punished for holding non-alarmist views is just being paranoid.
The odds of not being persecuted for having realistic views at many universities are already Mannfinitesimally small
That is the reason my user name on this site is only vaguely indicative of who I am. The green blob is strong in my workplace. The biology faculty is all on board, while the physics and chemistry faculty refuses to look at the science deeply enough to refute – they are too busy with their work, yet they are the ones in the best position to identify all the logical fallacies involved in the CACC arguments. It is actually easy to see the first C is bogus. The A is in dispute. The last CC is obvious in any view of the geologic data, so non-controversial.
The proponents of ManBearPig seem to be getting desperate. This is a good thing.
It is possible that they foresee the end of the grants and contracts for climate research, and are just trying to ensure that the schools of higher education continue to fund climate studies across all disciplines, to include attendance at national and international symposia on Climate Change (TM).
That may be wishful thinking. It’s more likely they are trying to cash in on the current media obsession with headlining the “catastrophic future” we face unless more and more emphasis and of course money is directed towards such universities’ research.
That’s what I was thinking, too.
Did the ‘mad’ just double down?
Yes…
Its a mad mad world became
Its a mad mad mad mad world
They have already found and begun to dig up the treasure under the “Big W” and they will fight to defend their shares.
so….pound the table
With a shoe….
Let me get this straight – he wants students to be taught half-truths, lies, and misinformation?
Why would anyone send a student to a college/university that supports that concept?
Indoctrination knows no ‘trvth’, only what is deemed necessary to ‘serve purposes’ …
“Let me get this straight – he wants students to be taught half-truths, lies, and misinformation?”
This opinion piece by Mann and others is an instruction manual for how to do human-caused climate change propaganda better. They are trying to refine the techinque the schools have been using so it applies to 100 percent of the student population instead of just those in the sciences..
It does smack of desperation.
His narrative is like fly paper to the grant money that is funding the socialist agenda.
“…whatever jobs they seek after graduation will be fundamentally reshaped by an increasingly variable climate and frequent and unprecedented climate extremes. ”
One can be confident that economics, politics, and disease will affect them more than climate change, although bad weather will affect them occasionally just as it did for their parents….
Through the voices of Greta Thunberg ….
Dr. Mann quotes an ignorant child. WOW!
Ignorant child-like Mann quotes an ignorant child.
He should demand Grover Monster gives him better service in the Sesame Street restaurant!
What a muppet!
Dr. Mann avoided going to court to actually deal with any issues in his suit against Dr. Ball. Hmmm.
Li’l Mikey Mann is the bully boy who’s afraid to come out and fight. Something like that.
Can someone please resurrect George Orwell so he can explain that 1984 was meant as a warning, not a manual?
They are actually too stupid having been in a university system too long to even understand the danger in what they are promoting.
Can anyone be that stupid? What do you think, Forrest?
Climate is as climate does.
+100
What’s the emergency are they running out of grant money ?
That’s the thing about grant money, there is just never enough of the stuff.
Its the fast food of research funding and also creates obscene rates of ‘intellectual obesity’ not to mention being laced with the opiods of promotion potential and even the mother of all academic highs, being a “Nobel Prize Co-Winner”.
“Pope Mann declares that all universities become catspaws of the latest, most fashionable doomsday cult.”
Anyone caught slapping their foreheads is sentenced to re-education camps. Anyone caught doing it twice is exiled from academia forever. Anyone caught doing it three times. . .
Universities should be places of serious academic study. Not jumping on political bandwagons with woolly unsubstantiated claims.
Though, given the Deep-State of the Climate Cult Wholly and Holy become interchangeable
political bandwagons with woolly unsubstantiated claims
Yes, those unsubstantiated claims are indeed mammoth. 😉
I think it read correctly as woolly – as in their thinking is quite woolly.
Yeah, and it’s virgin, ORGANIC wool from free-range sheep who have never been given antibiotics, allowed to nosh genetically modified fodder, or manhandled during the shearing process. They must only be asked nicely, “Are you ready to be fleeced now?” Sort of like the docile pupils who get fork over a quarter million dollars to be indoctrinated with hocus-pocus in a state-of-the-art modern university.
Mann, Cook, Lewandowsky, etc?? Do these people still share one tiny shred of credibility? These days even my children and grandchildren recognise them for the nasty little sleazebags that they are.
Not credibility, but the nobel-cause troika of Cook, Lewandowsky and Mann provides the critical gravitas…
They do share a Brain Cell on occasion though
“We won’t stop until every last molecule of that evil poisonous CO2 is buried and sequestered!”
Ah, but then all the corpses their preferred policies would produce would simply rot and put more methane, an even “more powerful” (according to them) “greenhouse gas,” into the atmosphere. Of course methane is, relative to climate, every bit as meaningless as CO2, but it just shows how their CO2 fetishism blinds them to anything and everything else.
And then within a few months, after all the stored food is consumed, the rest of us die of starvation.
That is not enough.
Universities should enforce wearing of tags by all students and academics. A red circle for the deniers, a green one for the climate crusaders and a white one for the clueless folk.
We should know who the enemy of our kids future is from a distance. /sarc
Through the voices of Greta Thunberg, the School Strikes for Climate and the Fridays For Future, youth everywhere are loud and clear
Children are SO smart. They know exactly what is happening and what to do about it, all without any science training at all. We’ve been missing out on this intellectual resource by sending them to school all day. We should immediately be seeking their advice on all sorts of matters. Perhaps they could tell us how to resolve conflict in the Middle East? Negotiate a trade deal with China? Tell us how to run our banking system? Put them in charge of the army? They know everything without any training or experience, who are we to hold them back?
Seriously, teenagers through out the ages have believed that they know more than their parents. We patiently waited for them to grow up. It is insane that they are being used to lobby for policies that they don’t understand. They’re being used as human shields to fight for a future in which there in fact would be no point in going to university, because there would be no jobs. There wouldn’t even be any food for that matter.
NYC has taken the first step by electing Little Miss Sandy to represent them in Congress.
That’s why progressives want to lower the voting age to 16 (or younger)
A little-remenbered gem from 1968. Perhaps more of the manual for the future than 1984.
https://youtu.be/rRLwV2xafpk
Uh-uh! Teenagers in the Rosy Future are going to have swell jobs — hundreds of millions of ’em, eck speshally after fossil fuels have been abolished. Swell jobs like picking cotton by hand, washing homemade textiles by hand in rivers, driving mules to drag wooden plows and carts, hunting game with wooden spears, and gathering nuts and berries schlepped home in woven grass bags. No more naughty engines, stinky combines, cars and trucks, sinful steel gizmos, demonic refrigeration, horrid gas stoves, putrid power tools, wicked electrical devices like lights, pumps, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, computers and cell phones.
No hospitals, either — too energy intensive. Those jobs can be replaced by shamans jumping up and down, chanting voodoo hoodoo and abstruse, mysterious incantations. Instead of boring schools requiring memorization, rote learning and (Gasp!) critical thinking, we can appease angry gods with human sacrifice. Authority figures in funny hats can howl and growl while the peasants quiver and adore.
Ah yes, the life of the Noble Savage. . . THOSE were the days!
“Universities have a responsibility to prepare students for an uncertain future,”
Hasn’t the future always been uncertain?
Until fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution, life was pretty certain for 99.99% of the human population — nasty, brutish and short*.
* Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2013/04/05/thomas-hobbes-solitary-poor-nasty-brutish-and-short/
Well, no.
The future is is always certain.
The past can be changed.
Stalin. (?)
Nope. The future is certain now. Computer models have proved everything: the weather 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, what kind of jobs there will be, the cost of everything (mostly free) how the lion will lie down with the lamb, raccoons will stop raiding garbage pails and cornfields, ticks and skeeters will stop transmitting diseases, no music or advertising will ever annoy anyone, traffic will flow smoothly at all times, schools & colleges will be populated exclusively by saints, with no prigs, perverts, or sanctimonious blowhards to be found, no one will yell at their kids or punch their rivals, and everyone can remain happy & content at all times.
Australia looks close to going full fascist.
It’s what always happens when liberals get to be in charge.
History repeating itself, too bad the de-education system has been so successful.
and aunty abc will be supporting it all the way..
betcha steffen gets airtime within days on this cook will follow maybe
dunno who the shiela is but shes another we could do to lose!
and lewpaper the gift like Herpes that just keeps giving grief.
A political litmus test by any other name is still a political litmus test.
This is a road map for total corruption of the entire educational system to teach and promote on the basis of the amount of support given to a single cause not supported by honest research. This outrage smacks of the communists way of support for the socialist cause.
Under this system an idiot can achieve great things if that is what they want to call it.
The Great Leap Forward followed by the Cultural Revolution.
And the Four Pests Campaign followed by the Great Chinese Famine (20 million perished).
Andrew Dessler and Texas A&M are not on this list. It is way too much for them, obviously.
So a new form of McCarthyism promoted by another group of arrogant pratts who are sure they are doing the right thing.