Flinders University Students, Faculty, Fighting Proposed Lomborg "Research" Center
Climate activists and academics are scaling up their opposition to Flinders University hosting a Bjørn Lomborg-run research centre in an attempt to shut down the last avenue apparently open to the project.
It is understood that the heads of three of the four Flinders faculties that could host the “consensus centre” have rejected the idea, leaving just one, the school of social and behavioural sciences, available.
Students, academics and the Australian youth climate coalition have lobbied Prof Phyllis Tharenou, executive dean of the faculty, to rule out the centre as well, believing this will effectively kill off the university’s plan to host it. The issue is set to come to a head at a university council meeting on 1 October.
The Coalition has attempted to give $4m to a university to run Lomborg’s centre, which would focus on international development. The University of Western Australia was set to host it but returned the $4m after a revolt by its academics who claimed the process was politically motivated and attacked Lomborg’s lack of scholarly standing. The education minister, Christopher Pyne, said UWA academics had shouted down Lomborg, and the Danish academic complained the issue had become a political football.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/flinders-university-staff-and-students-keep-fighting-bjrn-lomborg-centre
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