Tilbake til Sahara / Sahel. Alessandra Giannini, (Research Scientist at Columbia University), som er spesialist på effekten av varmere hav på Sahal-regionen, er fortsatt en iherdig alarmist med kullsviertro på co2-svøpen.
"Recently, she has examined what portion of surface temperature changes can be ascribed to fossil fuel burning. “In the case of the Sahel, it’s looking more and more like the combination of greenhouse gases and aerosols specific to the second half of the 20th century played an important role in drought,” she wrote."
Um, hun ser ut til å være noe akterutseilt? Gitt at co2-utslippene øker jevnt og trutt, mens Sahel-regionen blir stadig mer grønn og frodig? Kanskje derfor har hun begjærlig omfavnet president Macrons tilbud om å bli "klimaforsker-flyktning" i Frankrike, langt vekk fra den fæle Trump'en.
"“I jumped at the promise of a five-year contract!” said Alessandra Giannini, a professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute who studies the effects of warming oceans on Africa’s Sahel region. She saw Macron’s video and, weary of short-term grants and worried about growing budget pressures in the United States, applied. “I am a midcareer scientist almost entirely supported by federal research grants. My contract with the university is renewed yearly contingent on funding,” she said in an email."
Selvsagt må det virke forlokkende å bli tilbudt "forskerflyktning"-status av den franske presidenten, særlig når hun har et langsiktig perspektiv på sitt arbeid:
"Giannini plans to do an additional 15 to 20 years of research — “I love my job!” she wrote. But she said over the past 15 to 20 years, it had already become harder to obtain federal funding, “meaning many more proposals to submit and resubmit, which ultimately fragments work into bits too small to be able to find some cohesion, and time to think about the big picture questions.”
With budget pressures and the prioritizing of defense spending over discretionary spending, and “the savage tax cuts for the rich that are making the rounds of Congress,” she said it wasn’t hard to see “blood and tears coming our way.”"
Blod og tårer, da mangler bare svette, men det er kanskje for mye å forlange. Dette er fra 2017, det er uvisst om hun nå er lykkelig tilstede under Macrons beskyttende vinger.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/gianninis-sahel-junk-science/