$412,930 spent on relationship between gender and glaciers

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-03-09 06:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'Congratulations, taxpayers of America: You’ve just spent $412,930 on a “scientific” paper on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.”

That’s what the National Science Foundation dropped on “Glaciers, gender and science,” 10,000-plus words of gobbledygook from University of Oregon prof Mark Carey.

Sure, that’s roughly 40 bucks a word — but many of them are big words.

The study urges scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial” approach when studying melting ice caps and climate change. Hey, it’s not really global doom unless it comes with full-bore cutting-edge social-justice buzzwords.

Another taste: “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.”'

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Feminism could have saved the Titanic?

Yeah, right.

I suspect if there's grant money available for feminist studies, someone will find a way to get it.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2016-03-10 13:46

yeah, I can see the connection.

their end game is trillion$ from our pockets to the pockets of 3rd world dictators and more power to tax us by the u.n. and their dream of a one world gov. these clowns have already shut down the coal industry in this country. their claims about carbon and their denial of the effects of the producer of 99.999 % of our thermal energy, the sun, is ludicrous. we are entering a 'minimus' sun phase that will last for years. we are slowly heating up. its expected, and has been going on for over 100 years. however, we appear to be at a standstill in temp. change. btw, there isn't anybody alive who can predict the climate hundreds/ thousands of years from now. we just don't know enough yet about all the dynamic systems that could cause climate change, such as:

the sun's cycles/sunspot activities, volcanic activities, the earth's core, heavenly bodies (no, not Victoria secret angels), the oceans, and who knows what else? obviously 90% + of 'climate scientists' don't.

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Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2016-03-10 14:42

Feminism is definitely a cold-hearted philosophy, so I can see the connections between feminism and icebergs. The Titanic was just a metaphor for the feminist destruction of patriarchal society. After all, more women than men or children survived--which suits feminists to a T. I even read a feminist who claimed male heroism on the Titanic was just a way to deny women the vote.

I have the same problem with climate change as you do. The average temperature has gone up and down during earth's history and there are so many variables to consider that weather must be a chaotic system--inherently unpredictable over time. If the weather woman gets the forecast right, it's usually pure luck.

I have a daughter who lives in a coal town. Environmentalists are suing to shut down the mine. If the mine is shut down, the town dies. It will become another ghost town in a state with lots of ghost towns. All over a theory I'm not convinced is correct. Reminds me of the "domino theory" that got us into Vietnam.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2016-03-10 15:01