{"id":367322,"date":"2025-02-23T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367322"},"modified":"2025-02-23T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:01:54","slug":"are-climate-scientists-lying-about-their-work-to-secure-us-research-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=367322","title":{"rendered":"Are Climate Scientists Lying About Their Work to Secure US Research Grants?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 I still have the grant because I changed the title \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions \u2018climate\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Milman<\/a>
Fri 21 Feb 2025 23.00 AEDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration<\/a> is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: \u201cclimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers said work mentioning climate is being particularly targeted.<\/strong> One environmental scientist working in the western US who did not want to be named said their previously awarded grant from the Department of Transportation for climate-adaption research had been withdrawn, until they retitled it to remove the word \u201cclimate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still have the grant because I changed the title,<\/strong>\u201d the scientist said. \u201cI was told that I needed to do so before the title of the grant was published on the US DoT [Department of Transportation] website in order to keep it.<\/strong> The explanation was that the priorities of the current administration don\u2019t include climate change and other topics considered \u2018woke\u2019.

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaarle H\u00e4meri, chancellor of the University of Helsinki in Finland<\/strong>, said the descriptions for Fulbright grants<\/strong> had been changed to remove or alter the words \u201cclimate change\u201d, as well as \u201cequitable society\u201d, \u201cinclusive societies\u201d and \u201cwomen in society\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/21\/trump-scientific-research-climate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Am I reading this correctly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did an anonymous climate scientist just admit to conspiring to defraud the US Government into providing funds for a climate paper, by turning the very title of their paper into a lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many climate scientists are willing to bend the truth to keep their access to federal grant money?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much money are dissembling students and faculty members at the University of Helsinki receiving from the US Government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How deep is the rot, if the Chancellor of a major university appears to think it is OK to talk positively about students attempting to deceive the US Government, by rewording the titles of their grant applications to evade restrictions imposed by the Trump Administration? Though to be fair, maybe the chancellor did condemn bending the truth to win Fulbright grants, and Guardian reporter Oliver Milman forgot to include the Chancellor\u2019s condemnation in his article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked up the Fulbright Programme, the grant programme allegedly being abused according to the Chancellor or the University of Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fulbright Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program was founded by United States Senator<\/a> J. William Fulbright<\/a> in 1946 and has been considered one of the most prestigious scholarships in the United States.[1]<\/a><\/sup>The program provides approximately 8,000 grants annually<\/strong>, comprising roughly 1,600 grants to U.S. students, 1,200 to U.S. scholars, 4,000 to foreign students, 900 to foreign visiting scholars, and several hundred to teachers and professionals.<\/strong>[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fulbright_Program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A few things things seem clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. At least some climate scientists appear to think it is acceptable to dissemble and deceive the US Government, in order to secure of maintain access to federal grant money.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The US Government needs to examine what advice is being given to climate scientists seeking grants and who is providing that advice, in case the advice to change the title of the climate science paper to evade research grant restrictions originated from officials working for the US Government.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. DOGE is going to have to dig a lot deeper than the titles of research grant proposals, to prevent dissembling climate scientists from making a mockery of the Trump Administration\u2019s efforts to direct how federal grant funds are disbursed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. If alarmist climate scientists are willing to dissemble and deceive to maintain their access to federal grant money, what else are they lying about?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I am not suggesting climate scientists should be prevented from doing research<\/strong>, I fully support the right of even the most alarmist climate scientists to raise their own money from state governments or other organisations or individuals who think climate change is a threat. Publishing woke nonsense is free speech, and free speech is protected by the US Constitution. But no government is or should be obligated to spend taxpayer dollars on research they do not think is a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At least there is one positive from this Guardian Article. Thanks to Guardian reporter Oliver Milman<\/a>, we now have the name of a US Government funded overseas research grant programme which is allegedly being abused by dissembling climate scientists \u2013 the Fulbright Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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