By Jo Nova
And so it begins, scientists start peeling off the climate change labels from the ideology
The Trump clean-out has not even started and the bow wave is washing off some of the faded advertising.
Just as ESG and DEI are quietly disappearing into the bushes, soon, “climate change” will vanish too.
One day most scientists will say “we always knew it was overdone”. But right now, brave scientists are sticking to their beliefs … playing the victim card and adopting new advertising to keep their funding.
Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’
Oliver Milman, The Guardian
The prospect of an even more ideologically driven Trump administration slashing budgets and mass-firing federal staff has given America’s scientific community a sort of collective anxiety attack. “We all feel like we have a target on our backs,” said one National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, who added that agency staff are already seeking to “pivot” by replacing mentions of the climate crisis with more acceptable terms such as “air quality”.
“My god, it’s so depressing,” said another federal scientist about the incoming administration. A doctoral candidate, when asked about entering the workforce under Trump, simply puffed her cheeks and groaned. “If someone offered me a departmental position now, I’d jump,” said one Nasa researcher.
It’s not like modern science is a lap-dog serving whoever feeds them the biggest biscuits…
Science is in such a crisis, even the Guardian staff realize something is wrong:
But scientists in the US face a broader crisis beyond the next president, amid a swirl of misinformation and declining trust in the profession among the American public. Overall trust in scientists has fallen by 10% since the pandemic, Pew polling has shown,…
And the AGU President, who helped turn science into a religion, accidentally explains some of it:
“When we get that kind of polling data, it is concerning,” acknowledged Lisa Graumlich, a paleoclimatologist and the current AGU president.
“The conspiracy theories are out there, the misinformation is there,” said Graumlich. “Social media engines and the algorithms can take a person that isn’t necessarily prone to a conspiracy mindset and have them end up in this rabbit hole of misinformation.”
Where was Graumlich when NASA and NOAA were spreading misinformation that science is done by groupthink and consensus? Or when they pretended evidence came from computer simulations of Earth, and not the real thing?
And yet, already, in The Guardian desert of journalism — one tiny sensible shoot appears:
Some researchers think scientists should adapt to this hyper-partisan environment by sticking to unadorned facts, rather than anything that could be seen as campaigning. “We have been come to be seen as just another partisan lobbying group,” said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist.
That’s a good start.
H/t to Willie Soon.
Image by Helen Boulton from Pixabay
This proves that Conservatives and other members of the Thinking Community shouldn’t be afraid of the Left.
Show some leadership and cajones like TRUMP and they begin to behave themselves, just like spoiled children.
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They’re not afraid of the left. They embrace the left. Climate change, Identity politics, MeToo, BLM. The problem is that there are few real conservatives.
And those who are really Conservatives, like Trump, Kennedy, Farage and our own Moira Deeming are labelled as NAZIS.
Which is an incredible slander for conservatives especially as the NAZIs were socialists of the extreme left. Kennedy puts it best. He did not leave the Democrat party, it left him.
All we have is extreme left and more extreme left.
Real conservatives are as rare as rocking horse poo.
A real conservative in Australia would romp into power. We saw it with the Voice. And Australia needs new coal power stations as fast as we can build them. And to frack and search for gas. The Grid is useless, as it is connecting crippled systems together just so they can be controlled by Canberra.
As for Climate Change, it was always a hoax. Now run by China and their UN puppet. Boiling oceans? How absurd do you have to be and not be laughed out of a job?
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“A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land”.
Now, insert “scientist”.
Harsh?
Possibly, but food for thought.
Like “pollie-muppets”:
“How can you spot an “honest politician”?
“When they are bought,they STAY bought”,especially here in the “silly season”……
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Indeed, during Einstein’s miracle year of 1905 he wrote his four classic papers on his own time while holding down a day job.
And no great artist of the past such as Rembrandt, Leonardo, Cézanne, Monet, Michaelangelo, Goya, Van Gogh, Raphael etc. etc. were funded by taxpayers. They were self-supporting through sales of their work or patronage of the wealthy.
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“or patronage of the wealthy”
So nothing’s changed apart from the branding:
Catholic Church Collections
Carbon Climate Catastrophe
CCC / 666 as C (Carbon) is #6 on the periodic table.
Artistes – whether painting a model with brush & oils or conniving a simulated computer model – will work for the highest bidder: it’s all about promoting religious belief and putting food on the table… and avoiding being labelled a D3N!3R, the worst curse in both cults.
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From the Guardian article:
“… We need to choose our words well, know our audience, but I’m very much in support of full speed ahead.” ”
Interesting that one word they’ve omitted is “facts”.
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So who’s the conspiracy theorist now?
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Let’s put the “evidence-based” back into real science and abandon what the Left call “The Science (TM)”.
And while at it, also abandon the anti-scientific Leftist expressions “the science is settled” and “consensus science”. Science is never settled and I have never heard a real scientist say either of those things.
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And an interesting page:
https://scienceisneversettled.com/
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“get on with reducing greenhouse-gas emissions ”
Why? Greenhouse gases are not connected at all to greenhouse gas emissions.
This is not new science. Dissolved gases have a vapour pressure. This has always been simple science, 220 years old. Heat water and gas comes out. Cool it and it dissolves more.
Our tiny annual CO2 output is only 1% of what is in the air already and that is in turn only 2% of what is dissolved in the water because as we humans know, CO2 is very soluble. Wine, cider, beer, soda, cheese, leavened bread,..
This incredible presumption that CO2 stays in the air and build up, the fundamental premise in the article, is not science. And never was.
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I remember wondering once when the government would find a way to tax the air we breathe. I no longer wonder.
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Only an idiot would be fooled by Climate Science, a mish mash of ideas which makes Scientology look like a real religion. Boiling oceans? No more snow? More frequent and longer droughts?
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This is excellent news and heralds the end thanks to Donald Trump. The Climate Change mob is hiding under a paper tiger.
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See-saw, Marjorie Dawe.
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All these “scientists” are being paid to undertake work that greatly hampers US productivity. Offer them work on the border wall in Texas. Secure borders are a key feature in defining a country.
There is nothing like productive work to give a sense of purpose. A climate scientist using existing climate models would have to be mentally impaired if they think they are doing beneficial work. They realise they are just part of the big hoax and it is confronting to have to face up to that fact.
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Adapt to Trump or just do your job properly? I can’t believe the chutzpah to portray this as a dilemma rather than a choice between six or half a dozen.
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I wouldn’t trust any “scientist” that felt they had to adapt to the scientific rationalism of TRUMP.
The fact that they went along with the anthropogenic global warming fr@ud in the first place means they are of questionable morality, scientific integrity and competence.
They should be sacked (US = fired).
Or reduce their salary and send them to the Third World to pick up rubbish and train the locals not to litter. It would be better than a typical foreign aid package.
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And in Australia’s case, remember how former PM Tony Abbott wanted to have an inquiry into data fr@ud at the Bureau of Meteorology and former WEF employee Greg Hunt stopped it? What was he afraid of?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-24/environment-minister-greg-hunt-killed-idea-of-bom-review/6803572
In contrast, our alternative PM, Dutton, is an anthropogenic global warming fr@ud True Believer and wants more unreliables (and only sees nuclear as base load, not as primary production).
I wish we had some politicians (or even their advisors) who had a clue about science and engineering.
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I find it concerning that Graumlich is a Paleoclimatologist and seriously buys into this climate caper. It once again shows how political indoctrination has permeated the physical sciences.
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I suppose she’s a DEI placement.
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Ticks all the boxes.
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GlenM:
Well he would have been at a University where “Group Think” was enforced.
Possibly has never hear anything else where he works.
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You used go from school to uni to research all the while building knowledge in the proper sciences, physics, chem, biol, etc, but now you go from shit science to more shit science until you know lots about shit science, so it must hurt to discover that your shit science career is shit science.
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I hope Trump can make a difference but I think he has too much ground to cover in one term.
His choice of Chris Wright is a good one and he should make a difference as long as he isn’t prone to listening to bludgers and lefty loonies.
Perhaps the best way is to quickly cut off the funding to any area that persists in woke and other PC lefty loony ideas. Just pay them what’s owing and get rid of them ASAP.
Hopefully VP Vance will be well groomed to also have a distaste for waste and all the BS , corruption and fra-d by 2028.
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Please!! This effect of sheep getting in line, is so insidious. It would be great if the leading sheep changed beat.
Just yesterday I was meeting with our agronomist, really smart analytical guy, listening to his wisdom, and then he drops the line “and as it keeps getting warmer and warmer ….” and my stomach churns.
These types would change their tune I’m sure if the narrative changed. It’s why Trump (an effective Trump) is so crucial. I don’t even agree with his economics, but the overall impetus and calling out this civilization destroying nonsense on climate change, trumps all else.
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But meanwhile back in Austraya: This sarky, but close to reality, spoof:
https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/australian-climate-crisis-t24247.html
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Go the Cube! Humour in a glass of its own. Except on Windy there’s a howling southerly ripping up the coast (with a little precipitation on the hills?) just north of Sydney where I’ll be tomorrow… gosh and darn, I’m trying to escape the cold and wet – maybe 2025 will be the HOTTEST EVAAAH.
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These days the Left are so crazy that it’s not always immediately obvious, if at all, whether something is sarcasm or real.
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Peter Ridd on “How will Trump shake up science”.
10min vid.
https://youtu.be/_BLJ14fzz4k
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“has given America’s scientific community a sort of collective anxiety attack”
Shouldn’t be a problem.
Most of them have been on meds for that since high school.
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‘One day’ the sceptics will discover the scientific method and produce their’ evidence.
How long has Jo been dodging peer review ?.
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