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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Honest?! … Did he write “honest”?!
Changing climate? … are we supposed to read “a catastrophically” in there, or are we just supposed to think that a climate that has always changed, which is still changing and always will change, is somehow abnormal, when it isn’t?
Increasingly variable and frequent and unprecedented climate extremes?!! [sorry, I had to use double exclamation points there] … I have been convinced that these are outright lies.
So sleazebag worthy a declaration by the Dr. has seldom been printed.
XXX emergency is the new leftist meme. Can be applied to anything they believe and want others to fall in line with. Shouldn’t take too long to wear this saying out if it hasn’t happened already.
Quackademia Goes Full Retard. Film at 11.
+50
I demand that Michael Mann pay his legal judgements.
Gee, I wonder if he treats his students in the classroom or in research based on performance or climate change zeal.
This man (Mann) is a idiot; he keeps doubling down on nonsense.
Yes, how DARE he pollute the minds of children and young people with his baseless rantings.
No, he is just a Big Brother puppet.
By what right does Michael “Hide the Data” Mann demand anything? He’s a blight on science.
While they are at it they also need to suppress the ridiculous notion that the continents are drifting and banish those that believe ulcers are caused by bacteria and not stress as 97% of scientists know.
I find this very surprising, that people who lie, cheat and hide their work are now suggesting the universities promote and celebrate people who lie, cheat and hide their work. It seems almost as if there is a conflict of interest.
The University of British Columbia has a very large campus with some nice residential areas. So after more than 50 years I’m back on campus.
There is a monthly newspaper “The Campus Resident” and the August edition included a letter from the president of the university.
Hysterical about climate, so he must have been part of the Mann’s promotion of “Emergency”. The September edition included my response as a Letter.
Those interested could scroll down to page 3.
https://www.myuna.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/09-September-2019_CampusResident_Final2.pdf
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Good letter Bob! I am surprised they published it, without the obligatory worship of CO2 being responsible for all things relating to climate. I remember the debates in the 1960’s about Milankovitch cycles and continental drift theory. I can only imagine what would would have happened to academia if there had been hostile forces that managed to shut that line of enquiry down and never allowed science to develop with better facts and hypothesis. We live in dangerous times with the likes of the disgraced Mikey Mann roaming the good Earth.
Nice letter, Mr. Hoye. I am glad it was published by the University press.
Great job!
I’m not so sure about the editor’s note on Svensmark though with their lifting direct from Wikipedia in a distorted association with global warming (?). WUWT?
The BBC spat in the face of its taxpayers by running Mann in a recent TV documentary entitled ‘Climate Change – the Facts’. Swiftly became known as ‘climate- change the facts’.
He touted unchallenged the stuff about it’s all happening quicker than we thought da da da.
Climate – Change the Facts. I love it.
After 30 years of nothing that they thought would happen actually happening, nothing happening is now defined as ‘happening faster than we thought’!
It is a proud moment in the growing history of ‘doublespeak’.
He’s got a point. Why should we waste more millions funding bogus research into a supposed catastrophe we are powerless to stop?
Be careful of campus ideological wars and show trials….
Albert Einstein was a pacifist of long standing and sincerity. In January 1896, with his father’s approval, he renounced his citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg to avoid military service. While his friend, Fritz Haber, was a signatory of the Fulda Manifesto [aka Manifesto of the Ninety-Three, a 4 October 1914, proclamation endorsed by 93 prominent German scientists, scholars, and artists, declaring their unequivocal support of German military actions in the early period of World War I ], Einstein (now a German citizen again) signed a counter-manifesto—one of only four signatories—that called for an end to the war and the creation of a united Europe.
https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2017/10/albert-einstein-in-first-world-war.html
More on Fritz Haber…
https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2018/07/gas-warfare-prelude-to-second-battle-of.html
I had a thunk.
Since the Government took over education loans, the government is now responsible for it. Why don’t we push for total government takeover of all higher education? Think of how much more efficient that would be HAHAHAHAHA
Hoist them on their own petard.
Maxine Waters, head of the Finance Committee, asked the nation’s top bank CEOs during a congressional hearing why student loans were costing students so much money/interest. One of the CEOs reminded Mad Max that the federal government took over the student loan program about ten years ago, and they had nothing to do with them. She is so clueless that she doesn’t even have knowledge of the student loan program.
Ep. 503: How Government Inflated the Student Loan Bubble
https://youtu.be/Lz4SPe71v84
I’m still trying to figure out how you can turn tree rings into temperature.
Jimmy,
Mathemagic.
Paul,
Thanks for the laugh!
Put them in a wood-stove !
Exacatically
a little application of Fire works wonders
Trees grow slower when the temperature is colder so cooler temps smaller rings.
Problem is both increased rainfall and increased CO2 can lead to larger rings too.
Any condition that makes trees grow faster will produce thicker tree rings.
“Trees that depend heavily on temperature in the growing season will have narrow rings during cold periods and wider rings for warm periods. Trees that depend heavily on moisture during the growing season will have wider rings during rainy periods and narrower rings during dry periods.”
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/picture-climate-how-can-we-learn-tree-rings
So what they do is find an area in which temperature was the only or at least the main variable. But I don’t know how accurate that can be.
…except in many cases it has been shown that trees have been used as temperature proxies where precipitation is a dominant factor.
In addition to water you leave out … competition + nutrients + light + predators
The proper functional ecology science expression for tree growth is those 5 factors
So at best it’s a proxy of a number of variables which have there own set of problems.
As in all science it stands as the “current theory” in biology simply because a better theory does not exist. I don’t think anyone is really going to be shocked when sometime down the track it it is replaced with something better.
Yep LdB,
maybe all the trees that last the longest were the ones that were consistently used for territorial marking for generations of wolves, or coyotes, or jackal or any other wild dogs and wild cats, or any other territorial animal.
So some variations in tree ring size from some of those trees may indicate the varying health of the local territorial animals and not much else.
IMO trees as thermometers is worth about that — a bucket of dog pißs.
Just twigged to the Catastrophic future concept. It really is shaping up in the manner of a cult, we have the prophets of doom, the joan of Arc/Lourdes visionaries {always young girls, but that’s another debate), our Devil in the shape of CO2 and now academia shuffling behind these figures with hastily written placards claiming ”THE END IS NIGH’ like a bunch of tramps thirsting for the price of their next shot of whisky.
David Hartley,
Not quite — “Devil in the shape of CO2”, no that is just the devil’s mark, capitalism is viewed by these idiots as the great Satan.
If you cannot reach up , they you can always try to drag others down to your level .
I demand that all universities line up their academic frauds and fire them – starting with Penn State
Mann’s
demands,
hockey stick,
Nobel prize,
Put…
… sun don’t shine.
He would do anything to support his Hockey Stick. Anything.
Just in:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/01/sicilys-king-of-wind-guilty-of-bankrolling-top-mafia-fugitive
The more people don’t listen the more shrill the thermageddonists become.
Just recalled a booklet i was introduced to on a course in the ’80’s called ‘How To Lie With Statistics’ by G.L. Huff. Superb and concise and brilliant for those like myself that aren’t fully in the statistics field and a perfect introduction in having the wool pulled over your eyes for our green friends.
Around the world one can find 11 ‘scholars’ who believe in even the craziest things, like putting diapers on cows is a good idea or listening to actors talk about anything or taking Mann seriously. It now takes an average of over five years to graduate from college and some lead-up time will be required to standardize and accredit the climate dogma which means that we will all be dead from the exigent, catastrophic, irreversible horrors certain in just a few years. The pointlessness of their idea suggests that either they are not ‘scholars’ or don’t believe their own scholarship. Thank God there are optimistic deniers expressing contrary views with their life choices, like President Obama who is not moving to higher ground but to the coast.
What a pathetic mind numbingly narcissistic ego maniac Mann & gang truly are.
Mann is the academic equivalent of Torquemada
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-att-us-revc&sxsrf=ACYBGNTs-kDBvNRFg7oOUK2M-YDHDEaT9Q%3A1569959466960&ei=Kq6TXb2POoLSsAXxqY7ICA&q=head+of+Spanish+inquisition&oq=head+of+Spanish+inquisition&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.3..0j0i22i30.16285.31185..31989…0.0..0.317.5406.0j13j13j1……0….1…….0..46i131i273i275j0i273j46j0i131j46i131j46i275.fuzKfmr0M9M
You wonder when they start burning the books? (to stay warm)