Meanwhile, the profit-driven gougers of the people have been thwarted by The One as well.
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Eurostar Group Ltd., operator of high-speed trains between London, Paris and Brussels, canceled all services today due to severe weather conditions in France.Either that or the whole thing is just a load of manure designed to enrich hucksters like billionare Gore, ensure a steady stream of mammoth research grants to frauds in the Universities and to give the proto-fascists in the EPA a chance to control the economy.
“We are not going to be running any services today because of the continuing weather conditions in northern France,” Eurostar spokeswoman Emelle Mouhaddib said ...
“It’s absolutely unprecedented,” he said. “The knock- on effect on passenger shuttle services and freight shuttle services is huge.”
A Kent Police statement said “Operation Stack” has been implemented on the M20, where 2,300 trucks have been parked on the motorway ...
As much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of snow fell in southeast England yesterday and temperatures dropped to as low as minus-2 Celsius (24 Fahrenheit) overnight, according to the U.K. Metrological Office’s Web site.
Nahhhhh. It was a freakin' miracle.
"a steady stream of mammoth research grants to frauds in the Universities"
ReplyDeleteIt always makes me laugh when people make cracks like this. I know a lot of people who work in research, and nobody *I* know is getting a steady stream of mammoth research grants, either related to climate studies or to anything else. There is a tendency to think of a $100,000 research grant as being a hell of a lot of money, and it is if you give it as a lump sum to an individual. But, as funding for a research project, that's just about enough to support *one* graduate student full-time for 2 years (once you include the tuition and the overhead that the University charges along with the somewhat-better-than-minimum-wage stipend that the student actually gets to see). At that funding level, the amount of money that the professor who actually gets the grant takes home is maybe two or three weeks of summer salary.
As my old thesis advisor was fond of pointing out, "If I wanted to get rich, I wouldn't work in research. I'd buy a McDonald's franchise."
I'm sure there are people getting rich off of climate fear-mongering, and there are others getting political influence by whipping up hysteria in one direction or the other, and there are some getting both money *and* power, but I can pretty much guarantee that the number of research scientists getting either rich or powerful off of this is practially zero. And then only if they abandon research to go into politics.
Tim, I've worked on the panels that dole out the research grants. Not in environmental science, but in other fields. The favored children get taken care of in a big way and everyone else gets crumbs. These guys at East Anglia and other hip spots for GW research were awash in cash.
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