On 23/01/2020 11:01, Keith Harris wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:05:04 UTC, Jim wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:56:30 -0800 (PST)

Don't forget his spittle flecked Greta hating!

He enjoys it, though - love him.

With this attitude there is NO HOPE for this world...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51219530

Keith (Southend)

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University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite
climate change

Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is
endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford — and she may
have paid for it with her job.

After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the
University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal
application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming
from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication.

Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to
“outside pressure,” the result of her research showing that polar bear
populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of
shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.

Her dismissal, which she announced Wednesday in a post on her Polar Bear
Science blog, has spurred alarm over the implications for academic
freedom and the rise of the “cancel culture” for professors and
scientists who challenge climate catastrophe predictions.
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Which has nothing at all to do with this philosophy:

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“The notion of political correctness came into use among Communists in
the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the Party’s interest is to be
treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself,” writes Codevilla,
Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.

The semi-humorous reminder went something like this:

“Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is
politically correct.”

The anecdote was a vital reminder in Stalin’s empi Stray from the
party’s official position and it could mean death. Whether or not
something was true mattered less than whether or not it advanced the
Idea (i.e. the Party’s interest).
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Reality: Polar bears are doing well.

The Party's view: Polar bears are being decimated by catastrophic
climate change.

And the winner is: The Party!

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Spike