Posted on 01/10/2023 11:26:02 PM PST by KingofZion
Shortly after the New Year, I was fired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory after urging fellow scientists to take action on climate change. At the American Geophysical Union meeting in December, just before speakers took the stage for a plenary session, my fellow climate scientist Peter Kalmus and I unfurled a banner that read “Out of the lab & into the streets.” In the few seconds before the banner was ripped from our hands, we implored our colleagues to use their leverage as scientists to wake the public up to the dying planet.
Soon after this brief action, the A.G.U., an organization with 60,000 members in the earth and space sciences, expelled us from the conference and withdrew the research that we had presented that week from the program. Eventually, it began a professional misconduct inquiry (it’s ongoing).
Then, on Jan. 3, Oak Ridge, the laboratory outside Knoxville where I had worked as an associate scientist for one year, terminated my employment. I am the first earth scientist I know of to be fired for climate activism. I fear I will not be the last.
Oak Ridge said it was forced to fire me because I misused government resources by engaging in a personal activity on a work trip and because I did not adhere to its Code of Business Ethics and Conduct. The code has points on scientific integrity, maintaining the institution’s reputation and using government resources “only as authorized and appropriate and with integrity, responsibility, and care.”
*** I used to be a well-behaved scientist. I stood quietly on melting permafrost in Utqiagvik, Alaska, and measured how much greenhouse gas was released into the atmosphere. I filled spreadsheets and ran simulations about how warming temperatures would increase the carbon emissions from soil.
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Hooray for Oak Ridge National Laboratory!
On a geological time scale, we are experiencing a brief period of warmth. Most of our ancestors endured a frozen, inhospitable world, where every minute of the day was devoted to survival and warmth. Things will cool down again soon enough, and then we are in for wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The planet is not dying. It is blooming, and full of life.
I love these feel good stories about kooks getting what they deserve.
Normally, I don’t like to see someone lose their job.
But when it’s over pushing ‘Global Warming’ out to the sheep 🐑🐑🐑 it’s hard to be sympathetic.
Had she been fired for reading a Bible at lunch well then I would have been sympathetic.
Warmer is good, cooler is bad.
I’m just wondering why they haven’t taken their sideshow on the road to China, where the pollution is happening?
I’m sure this guy wasn’t fired for being ManBearPig at Oak Ridge, since the government actively backs the GoreBull warming scam. I would have to assume he angered his bosses and colleagues by his anti-social actions and attitude, and was fired on the flimsy excuse that he did personal stuff on government time.
I suspect there is more to the firing than climate activism. I bet the guy was a loon who didn’t get much done. twitter was full of SJW dead weight.
I, for one, enjoy burning a bit more electricity to warm myself in January.
YMMV.
This loon is incensed that the 60,000 members aren’t all in agreement... Actually, the number who do agree with his most dire warnings are likely a small minority of those 60,000 members... Science is never ‘settled’ and soothsaying and predicting the future based on the limited amounts of available historical climate data is complete bunk.
If you were relying on windmills and solar panels for that electricity, you would be frozen stiff by now.
Good. I hope you’re both starving and freezing
Yeah, I’m running a “Space” heater in the room I’m in to get the room temp above that of the rest of the house.
Who doesn’t love Space?
“I filled spreadsheets and ran simulations”... We can’t base our existence and the future on ‘simulations’... We need scientific facts... Not science fiction.
Scientist like you told Al Gore that the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone by 2016... It’s 2023 and it’s still there... That’s a scientific fact... Not a scientific ‘prediction’.
It’s hard to be sympathetic when the issue is based on a lie.
Exactly
Her buddy Peter Kalmus is a well-known crackpot. Guess she is too. Not surprised she got in hot water for acting like a fool in public on government time.
>>Scientist like you told Al Gore that the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone by 2016... It’s 2023 and it’s still there...<<
“Climate Change” causes snow-melt and...snow...
Good question. Because the issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.
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