The government in Australia is cutting back on the climate wing of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization). Deep cuts and the scientists are hacked off.
From The Sydney Morning Herald:
Climate science to be gutted as CSIRO swings jobs axe
Fears that some of Australia's most important climate research institutions will be gutted under a Turnbull government have been realised with deep job cuts for scientists.
Fairfax Media has learnt that as many as 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division will go, with a similarly sharp reduction in the Land and Water division.
Total job cuts would be about 350 staff over two years, the CSIRO confirmed in an email to staff, with the Data61 and Manufacturing divisions also hit.
The cuts were flagged in November, just a week before the Paris climate summit began, with key divisions told to prepare lists of job cuts or to find new ways to raise revenue.
"Climate will be all gone, basically," one senior scientist said before the announcement.
20 years ago, they got really strident about the warming and got funding to do a lot of additional research. When inconvenient data started accumulating, when other scientists started debunking the predictions, when new evidence started showing up, those scientists did not change their theories, they just doubled down and got even more strident. AGW is now a political movement and not a scientific theory. Maybe the scientists can get hired in Canada what with their new PM being all green and such...
Time to stick a fork in it - Anthropogenic Global Warming is dead. Tip of the hat to Eric Worrall for the link.
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