Climate Cult Scientists Feeling “Stress And Fear”

If they were doing things the right way, doing neutral science rather then being partisan cult advocates, they’d be fine

US scientists feeling ‘stress and fear’ as sweeping Trump orders hit funding

Scientists around the US have described experiencing distress, disruption to their work and interruption of payments in the chaos following Donald Trump’s executive orders affecting federal grant money.

Among the funds caught in limbo in recent days were millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated research awards and grants across the vast networks of publicly funded scientific departments at universities, businesses and non-profits across the country.

Trump’s order hit a payment gateway operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a top funder of research in the US with an annual budget of about $10bn.

It was back online this week following a five-day outage that ended on Sunday – but not before affecting many scientists who expressed alarm about what the moves could mean for the future as they try to navigate Trump’s orders on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), climate and gender. (snip)

Only a few were willing to go on the record. One Nasa climate scientist said she had been having trouble sleeping. Most said they hadn’t been able to get much work done over the past few days and had been formulating contingency plans with their research students and staff to prepare for potential lingering gaps in funding or enhanced political oversight.

How dare there be oversight into their research and practices, with what they are doing with taxpayer money. Go work in the private sector, see how that works out. That they want results, and employees best not go off the reservation. That they are not in charge and just can’t do whatever they want.

“We have been told to document the ways that we’re changing our grant-funded work to remove DEIA, which is hard because all of our research is related to deaf people,” said a scientist who works at an east coast university.

Maybe do proper research, not mix in DEI woke garbage.

Some scientists were in the process of establishing secured, private communications channels among themselves in an effort to coordinate their actions to maintain academic freedom under an increasingly restrictive presidential administration.

If they’re doing this as a government employee their in violation of federal regulations. Heck, if they are doing this in the private sector with it violates Sarbanes-Oxley for record keeping, and if there are federal grants are involved it could be defrauding the feds.

Macias’s work is intended to improve the resilience of semi-arid forests across the south-west US to drought and climate change – and could help inform Trump’s stated goals to improve forest management and reduce the impact of wildfires. Macias also participates in the Pinyon Community Climate Action (Picca) project, a research partnership among the University of California, federal agencies, NGOs and tribal members of the region.

But, you know that the papers and research aims are along climate cult lines, rather than just saying the climate has warmed, it doesn’t matter the causation, here’s what can be done. And how much of the grant money disappeared into the shady arms of the NGOs?

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