From James Delingpole writing at Breitbart:
Yale University is to close its Climate & Energy Institute.
With sweet serendipity, the heartbreaking announcement on the university’s website coincides with the news that the institute’s founding head Rajendra Pachauri has been formally charged with sexual harassment.
How different things were in 2009 when the Institute was launched, with great pride and fanfare, by Yale University president Richard C Levin.
YCEI will provide seed grants, support postgraduate study, sponsor conferences and workshops, and foster interdisciplinary research spanning from basic atmospheric science to public policy. Nearly 100 Yale scientists, engineers, physicians, social scientists and policy experts have joined together to launch the enterprise.
In those days, man-made global warming was still very much the fashionable cause of the moment and Pachauri – a former railway engineer, novelist, vegetarian and tantric sex guru – was at the peak of his influence as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The die-hards are looking for any rationalization for this cut and not finding much:
But one possibility is that no one in their right mind gives a damn about “climate change” in a world where there has been no “global warming” for nearly 19 years – and can certainly think of better ways to spend their money than funding research into a non-existent problem.
The announcement comes only a month after Australia’s leading scientific bureau – the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – decided to abandon its research into “climate change” with the loss of more than 300 jobs.
Wrote about that on February 3rd of this year. Warms the cockles of my heart to see common sense and real science prevail over marxist narrative and groupthink.
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