Blackrook
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Pachauri has been a controversial figure for quite some time, based on unproven allegations of financial self-enrichment and allegations of sexual misbehavior. His personal troubles no doubt have diminished his moral authority as a champion save-the-world advocate (and, oddly enough, parallel the sexual misconduct charges against the pre-eminent warmist profiteer, Al Gore), but a scandal-tainted founding director ordinarily would not be enough to kill a formerly well funded institute at a world-famous research university. In order to accomplish that, you have to starve it (and the university backing it) of funding.
And that is what must be behind the announcement of the demise of YCEI. Donors have moved on to more trendy opportunities to add to their personal prestige. It all begins when, at a cocktail reception or fancy dinner, people begin to ask about the failure of the globe to warm for the last 19 years, and you get stuck in an awkward conversation about how it was necessary to “adjust” the data in order to continue to claim that warming is a problem. That sort of thing is donor poison.
As for the poor Yale undergraduates who got those fellowships and saw themselves building careers, as rescuers of the world, they are out of luck. The Yale Daily News interviews a number of them, and they are obviously in shock.
They would be better off taking the advice of the great James Delingpole, who writes at Breitbart:
Make no mistake, these are dark and terrible times for the climate change industry. If you have a son or a daughter studying at university in a field like ecology, environmental studies or similar, do be sure to encourage them to polish up their burger-flipping or lap-dancing skills.
Read more: Blog: A sure sign of warmism in decline: Yale closing down its ‘Climate and Energy Institute’
Well, the circus is leaving town, and it's all over except unpacking the tents and putting the animals on the train.
But don't worry, the next liberal cause is already here and already it's cost lives and careers to be destroyed. I am speaking of course of the nonsense where kids are demanding "safe place" based on sex, race, gender identity, or whatever.
And that is what must be behind the announcement of the demise of YCEI. Donors have moved on to more trendy opportunities to add to their personal prestige. It all begins when, at a cocktail reception or fancy dinner, people begin to ask about the failure of the globe to warm for the last 19 years, and you get stuck in an awkward conversation about how it was necessary to “adjust” the data in order to continue to claim that warming is a problem. That sort of thing is donor poison.
As for the poor Yale undergraduates who got those fellowships and saw themselves building careers, as rescuers of the world, they are out of luck. The Yale Daily News interviews a number of them, and they are obviously in shock.
They would be better off taking the advice of the great James Delingpole, who writes at Breitbart:
Make no mistake, these are dark and terrible times for the climate change industry. If you have a son or a daughter studying at university in a field like ecology, environmental studies or similar, do be sure to encourage them to polish up their burger-flipping or lap-dancing skills.
Read more: Blog: A sure sign of warmism in decline: Yale closing down its ‘Climate and Energy Institute’
Well, the circus is leaving town, and it's all over except unpacking the tents and putting the animals on the train.
But don't worry, the next liberal cause is already here and already it's cost lives and careers to be destroyed. I am speaking of course of the nonsense where kids are demanding "safe place" based on sex, race, gender identity, or whatever.
