Why I am leaving the University of Alabama:

Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons...
...are mainly personal. COVID made me realize that we were really far from our families in CA and the travel on our elderly parents was taking a toll. The result was that our children were not seeing their grandparents very often. As a Polish immigrant I know what it's like...
...to live far from family and I started to resent myself for choosing my career over my family's time together. Furthermore, over the last decade or so, but especially the last few years, the obsession with universities and grant-funding institutions...
...on immutable characteristics of faculty and students and the push for equity in science above all else has dramatically changed the profession of an academic professor. The rise of illiberalism in the name of DEI is the antithesis of the principles that universities...
...were founded on. These are no longer places that embrace the freedom of exchanging ideas and will punish those that go against the narrative. Although I had worked from an early age to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor, like my father, I feel the profession...
...is no longer worthy of my efforts. Contributing to this is the earth science communities silence on the false "climate emergency" narrative. Members of the community routinely discuss the mental health effects of climate catastrophism but dare not speak out...
...lest they lose their positions and research funds. I will continue to objectively review the current state of the science and provide my expert opinions through social media and a future podcast and book (hopefully, coming soon). I appreciate all of the support I have...
...received from followers here and members within the community (who shall remain nameless). If you live in CO get ready for the Wielicki Whirlwind! Excited about this new chapter in my life. #climate #Wokeness
Just want to say thank you for the out pouring of support. 😊

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Jan 1
I don't blame young people for being climate alarmists and activists. In fact I would have likely been next to them a decade ago. Young people are passionate about protecting the environment and have been manipulated to firmly believe... nature.com/articles/d4158…
...that atmospheric CO2 is a pollutant. I also don't blame the MSM for catastrophizing every weather event in an attempt to push a climate emergency narrative. They have always operated under the "if it bleeds it leads" philosophy. Nor do I blame governmental organizations...
...whose entire existence is predicated on there being a climate emergency. Self preservation will dictate that those organizations will continue the false narrative of a climate emergency. Those that are truly at fault are the scientific community...
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Dec 6, 2022
If we are in a climate emergency... It's not in lives lost due to natural disasters or an increase in geophysical, hydrological, meteorological,or climatological disasters. So where specifically is the emergency? It's in the failed predictions. #climate #ClimateEmergency
No increase in global land area burned and no increase in global major hurricane frequency. Where is this emergency I keep hearing about?
No increase in economic damage from droughts. Where is this emergency?
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Nov 26, 2022
No matter what the magnitude of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has on climate (I would argue its overstated by the IPCC) the warming climate has not at all been bad for most of the planet. Yes sea levels are rising slightly (about 1/10th of the rate...
...that they rose after the last glacial) and obviously temperatures have risen (much more in urban areas due to the Urban Heat Island Effect) but people are living longer than ever. Less folks are at risk of famine or malnutrition than ever before. There has been...
...no increase in extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, or hurricanes. The planet is greening and with that crop yields are at record highs. Vast amount of land that was unsuitable for agriculture or livestock due to cold temps is becoming available...
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Nov 14, 2022
The climate alarmists playbook simplified. 1) Lie about today's temperature being higher than anytime in recent history.
2) Lie about the changes in temperature being greeter than anything in recent history. Note: the Younger Dryas had temperature changes of 15°C in a century, we have seen 1°C in a century and a half.
3) Pretend that there is a consensus about anthropogenic CO2 emissions effect on temperature. There is not.
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