Oh, sure, it’s only $2.6 million. Of taxpayer money. For silly stuff. That could have been used for military equipment and training
$2.6M in DOD Grants to Fund Studies of Climate Change Impact on Security
Two University of Maryland researchers have received awards totaling $2.6 million to study how national security and climate change intersect in the United States and around the world.
Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, professor and co-director of graduate studies in the Department of Government and Politics, and Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski in the Department of Psychology were among 17 researchers nationwide to be named recipients of the grants from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative, a university-based social science research program.
Cunningham received about $1.6 million to lead a three-year project to study the role that state and non-state actors play in a country’s management of climate change. The focus is Mozambique, an East African nation that has a diverse array of environmental hazards along with a history of non-state actors, ranging from non-governmental organizations to rebel groups, engaging with the population in different ways.
The study will examine people’s understanding of the risks of climate change and how non-state actors involve themselves in governing such issues, said Cunningham, who is working with researchers from Emory University, Texas A&M, Penn State and Carleton University.
Good grief, that is a huge waste of money, basically pet projects of no value.
“We’re also interested in explaining the conditions under which actors, state or non-state, try to leverage the idea that different agencies, people, and organizations are responsible for managing the hazards of climate change—when is it that a rebel group might be able to use government failures of managing climate change to their advantage; who do they assign blame to when things go wrong; and who do they reward when things go right?” she said.
How does this actually help the US Military defend the U.S.A.?
“It’s exciting to see people studying climate change from different angles,” said Cunningham of their fellow Minerva grant recipients. “This will hopefully lead to some interesting cross-pollination.”
So, do it with your own money. Get private funding.
The DOD Minerva Initiative funds social science research that benefit the strategic interests of the U.S. military. The program also ‘buys’ goodwill for the military from academia. The funding will pay the salaries/stipends of several university researchers and students. Write your Congressperson to see if they can get it stopped.
The conservative cult has always opposed federal support of research, and many would shut down the National Institutes of Health and the CDC if they could.
For perspective, according to conservative Judicial Watch, American spent over $13 million of TAXPAYER MONEY on DonJon’s travel/security in 2017 alone. Much of that went directly to DonJon businesses, e.g., Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago golf clubs.
The funding will pay the salaries/stipends of several university researchers and students. Write your Congressperson to see if they can get it stopped.
No. We would simply have the FBI investigate them to make sure they are not being paid by any foreign government to do research in the USA and then sell/give it to CHINA or one of the other bad actors. Well, maybe not since the FBI cannot be relied upon to investigate anything except Conservative mothers who want schools to stop teaching their children they are racist scumbags.
The conservative cult has always opposed federal support of research, and many would shut down the National Institutes of Health and the CDC if they could.
NO. We would simply ask that the NIH and CDC remain outside the reach of BIG PHARMA. We understand that YOU like everyone else loves them some Pharma dollars while rejecting petrol dollars. We understand that the NIH and CDC and FDA are politically motivated and driven to reach a conclusion that is based off personal greed rather than SCIENCE. I wonder if even you realize how much of our medicines are made from Petrol Products?
For perspective, according to conservative Judicial Watch, American spent over $13 million of TAXPAYER MONEY on DonJon’s travel/security in 2017 alone. Much of that went directly to DonJon businesses, e.g., Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago golf clubs.
Agreed. Every president should be banned from writing a Book or having any security details after they leave office. It would be interesting to watch every one of them be assassinated and or taken prisoner by Russia/CHINA and tortured for what they know. Just kidding FBI…That is how ludicrous DOWDS statement is.
Yeah, I can see how spending money defending Trump. Obama. Bush. Clinton is a problem for you.
In fact, since he left the White House in 2001, Clinton and his office have received more money through the Former Presidents Act than any other ex-president, according to an analysis of budget documents.
Multiple sources familiar with Clinton’s funding say the special federal money has supplemented the salaries of some employees of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
What goes around comes around. Always. Dowd
DonJon was in office in 2017 and cost taxpayers over $13 million for unnecessary travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort. Keep on topic, FACTS MATTER!! Not sure where writing a Book fits in. We didn’t comment on protections for presidents and their families after they leave office. READING MATTERS!
Ivermectin still doesn’t work against Covid.
This is pretty normal no matter who is president. The left uses DoD defense budget as a slush fund to pay off their activists in academia. Michael Crichton laid this out in his book, “State of Fear” where he detailed the Government-Academia-Activist complex. Government provides the money to academics to provide “studies and data” that support activist positions that politicians can then use as justifications to provide more money to the activists. The activists and academics then also donate money to the politicians.
It’s just a coincidence that you will never see any money being used like this to fund a “right wing” issue.
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