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Feds Spent $412,930 Studying ‘Relationship Between Gender and Glaciers’
http://freebeacon.com/ ^ | 03/09/2016 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 03/09/2016 11:34:31 AM PST by massmike

The National Science Foundation has spent more than $400,000 on a study that published scientific results on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.”

The paper “Glaciers, gender, and science,” published in January 2016, concluded that “ice is not just ice,” urging scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial” approach when they study melting ice caps and climate change.

“Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change,” the paper by Mark Carey, a professor at the University of Oregon, explained. “However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers–particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied.”

“Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions,” the paper said.

The 10,417-word article published in Sage Journals’ “Progress in Human Geography,” was first highlighted by Reason’s Robby Soave and Tablet Magazine’s Yair Rosenberg.

The paper argues that glaciers can shape “religious beliefs and cultural values,” and that climate change can lead to the “breakdown of stereotypical gender roles and even ‘gender renegotiation.’”

While the paper argues that glacier research needs more feminine perspectives, gender is not defined as male and female for the researchers, but “as a range of personal and social possibilities.”

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1 posted on 03/09/2016 11:34:31 AM PST by massmike
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To: massmike

The only relation I see between glaciers and gender
is when someone remarks, “That’s a nice piece of ice.”


2 posted on 03/09/2016 11:36:22 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: massmike
Feds Spent $412,930 Studying ‘Relationship Between Gender and Glaciers’

Someone needs to go to prison for malfeasance with public funds.

3 posted on 03/09/2016 11:36:25 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: massmike

Glaciers, gender, and Gaia


4 posted on 03/09/2016 11:37:35 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: massmike

I’m going to have to work on some similar gobbledygook and apply for a grant ... unbelievable or only in America ...


5 posted on 03/09/2016 11:38:02 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: massmike

If it were not attached to a $4000,000 NSF grant I would think that someone randomly generated a very politically correct paper and sent it in for review to a bunch of frauds that did not review it.


6 posted on 03/09/2016 11:39:41 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: DiogenesLamp

I agree, I want my money back.

Who, in the name of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, made the decision that this was worthy of study.

They need to be fired and investigated.


7 posted on 03/09/2016 11:42:37 AM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: massmike
Actually, it's not quite that bad. The idiotic paper was written by an RA near the end of the lifetime of a grant. The grant was indeed for over $400K, but the paper itself was only a small part of the result of the funding.

Still, it should never have been funded or published, even as a small part of a larger project.

8 posted on 03/09/2016 11:43:27 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: massmike

You couldn’t make this up!


9 posted on 03/09/2016 11:44:01 AM PST by Dragonfly
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To: massmike

I used to work there!


10 posted on 03/09/2016 11:45:09 AM PST by YourAdHere (Hillary will win. I don't like it. I've just accepted it.)
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To: sparklite2

The only relation I see between glaciers and gender
is when someone remarks, “That’s a nice piece of ice.”


Best post on any thread today...Thanks, (Touching the brim of my hat).


11 posted on 03/09/2016 11:45:47 AM PST by AFret.
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To: massmike

Sounds like something “The World’s Foremost Authority”, Professor Irwin Corey, would talk about.


12 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:14 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: massmike

Thank God we have a Federal Reserve that can print up all the fake, unbacked currency and support the massive debt the US Government needs to pay for everyone belonging to the progressive nanny state.

Without it, activist, social-engineering leftist government simply couldn’t exist.

oops, did I say too much?


13 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:18 AM PST by PGR88
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To: massmike

“Frigid as a glacier: Truth or hyperbole?”

Science marches on.


14 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:19 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: massmike

The only similarity between feminists and glaciers is that Hillary is a feminist and you could probably freeze ice on her posterior.


15 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:26 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: massmike

he should win some kind of prize for combining the most BS-ish stuff into one grant


16 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:29 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: massmike

What they really need to study is the White privilege of glaciers. Why aren’t there any black glaciers?!?!?!?!?!


17 posted on 03/09/2016 11:51:36 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: massmike

Your tax dollars are work.


18 posted on 03/09/2016 11:53:35 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: massmike; All

Thank you for referencing that article massmike. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As mentioned in a related thread, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for anything like the study mentioned in the OP.

And since the Founding States gave the “power of the purse” (1.7.1) uniquely to the House of Representatives, the House is clearly not doing its job to protect and defend the Constitution.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, including putting a stop to unconstitutional taxing and spending.

Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.


19 posted on 03/09/2016 11:54:15 AM PST by Amendment10
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Why aren’t there any black glaciers?!?!?!?!?!

Good question. I've driven on black ice before.

20 posted on 03/09/2016 11:56:17 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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