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It's tempting to respond with indignation; after all, researchers generally are doing something they love without a focus on compensation. But, more significantly, the accusation simply makes no sense on any level.
You can't make a bundle pushing the consensus
So, are there big bucks to be had in climate science? Since it doesn't have a lot of commercial appeal, most of the people working in the area, and the vast majority of those publishing the scientific literature, work in academic departments or at government agencies. Penn State, home of noted climatologists Richard Alley and Michael Mann, has a strong geosciences department and, conveniently, makes the department's salary information available. It's easy to check, and find that the average tenured professor earned about $120,000 last year, and a new hire a bit less than $70,000.
That's a pretty healthy salary by many standards, but it's hardly a racket. Penn State appears to be on the low end of similar institutions, and is outdone by two other institutions in its own state (based on this report). But, more significantly for the question at hand, we can see that Earth Sciences faculty aren't paid especially well. Sure, they do much better than the Arts faculty, but they're somewhere in the middle of the pack, and get stomped on by professors in the Business and IT departments.
This is all, of course, ignoring what someone who can do the sort of data analysis or modeling of complex systems that climatologists perform might make if they went to Wall Street.
It's also worth pointing out what they get that money for, as exemplified by a fairly typical program announcement for NSF grants. Note that it calls for studies of past climate change and its impact on the weather. This sort of research could support the current consensus view, but it just as easily might not. And here's the thing: it's impossible to tell before the work's done. Even a study looking at the flow of carbon into and out of the atmosphere, which would seem to be destined to focus on anthropogenic climate influences, might identify a previously unknown or underestimated sink or feedback.
So, even if the granting process were biased (and there's been no indication that it is), there is no way for it to prevent people from obtaining contrary data. The granting system is also set up to induce people to publish it, since a grant that doesn't produce scientific papers can make it impossible for a professor to obtain future funding.
There's not much money in climate (or green energy)
Maybe the money is in the perks that come with grants, which provide for travel and lab toys. Unfortunately, there's no indication that there's lots of money out there for the taking, either from the public or private sector. For the US government, spending on climate research across 13 different agencies (from the Department of State to NASA) is tracked by the US Climate Change Science Program. The group has tracked the research budget since 1989, but not everything was brought under its umbrella until 1991. That year, according to CCSP figures, about $1.45 billion was spent on climate research (all figures are in 2007 dollars). Funding peaked back in 1995 at $2.4 billion, then bottomed out in 2006 at only $1.7 billion.
Funding has gone up a bit over the last couple of years, and some stimulus money went into related programs. But, in general, the trend has been a downward one for 15 years; it's not an area you'd want to go into if you were looking for a rich source of grant money. If you were, you would target medical research, for which the NIH had a $31 billion budget plus another $10 billion in stimulus money.
Not all of this money went to researchers anyway; part of the budget goes to NASA, and includes some of that agency's (rather pricey) hardware. For example, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory cost roughly $200 million, but failed to go into orbit; its replacement is costing another $170 million.
Might the private sector make up for the lack of government money? Pretty unlikely. For starters, it's tough to identify many companies that have a vested interest in the scientific consensus. Renewable energy companies would seem to be the biggest winners, but they're still relatively tiny. Neither the largest wind or photovoltaic manufacturers (Vestas and First Solar) appear in the Financial Times' list of the world's 500 largest companies. In contrast, there are 16 oil companies in the of the top 100, and they occupy the top two spots. Exxon's profits in 2010 were nearly enough to buy both Vestas and First Solar, given their market valuations in late February.
So, despite sporadic accusations otherwise, climate researchers are scrambling for a piece of a smaller piece of the government-funded pie, and the resources of the private sector are far, far more likely to go to groups that oppose their conclusions.
They lose by winning
If you were paying careful attention to that last section, you would have noticed something funny: the industry that seems most likely to benefit from taking climate change seriously produces renewable energy products. However, those companies don't employ any climatologists. They probably have plenty of space for engineers, materials scientists, and maybe a quantum physicist or two, but there's not much that a photovoltaic company would do with a climatologist. Even by convincing the public of their findings—namely, climate change is real, and could have serious impacts—the scientists are not doing themselves any favors in terms of job security or alternative careers.
But, surely, by convincing the public, or at least the politicians, that there's something serious here, they ensure their own funding? That's arguably not true either, and the stimulus package demonstrates that nicely. The US CCSP programs, in total, got a few hundred million dollars from the stimulus. In contrast, the Department of Energy got a few billion. Carbon capture and sequestration alone received $2.4 billion, more than the entire CCSP budget.
The problem is that climatologists are well equipped to identify potential problems, but very poorly equipped to solve them; it would be a bit like expecting an astronomer to know how to destroy a threatening asteroid. The solutions to problems related to climate change are going to come in areas like renewable energy, carbon sequestration, and efficiency measures; that's where most of the current administration's efforts have focused. None of these are areas where someone studying the climate is likely to have a whole lot to add. So, when they advocate that the public take them seriously, they're essentially asking the public to send money to someone else.
To sum up: climate research doesn't pay well, the amount of money dedicated to it has been shrinking, and if the researchers were successful in convincing the public that climate change was a serious threat, the response would be to give money to someone else. If you come across someone arguing that scientists are in it for the money, then you can probably assume they are willing to make arguments without getting their facts straight.


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I would like to welcome everyone here today to this briefing on "Political Prisoners in Central Asia." I am deeply distressed that we have to have this event - when the former Soviet republics joined the OSCE in 1992, many of us hoped the demise of communism meant that the practice of jailing people for their beliefs would be merely a vestige of an unhappy past. Unfortunately, that is not been the case. Political prisoners and prisoners of consciences still exist in several of the countries that emerged from the USSR.
This is especially the case in Central Asia, where most presidents have remained in office for decades, eliminating constitutional term limits, blocking the emergence of any credible rivals, and hindering the development of democratic institutions – including a strong legislature, an independent judiciary, opposition parties or a free press. The one country that has not followed this trend is Kyrgyzstan, which is the only Central Asian state that has had a peaceful transfer of power through an election, and has established a parliamentary system following two revolutions. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, however, have some of the highest numbers of political prisoners in the former Soviet Union.
While each country in Central Asia is different, there are worrying trends among all five.
In Uzbekistan, human rights activists, journalists, and members of certain religious groups continue to fall victim to restrictive laws and policies. A recent State Department assessment of the human rights situation there said that Uzbekistan "remain an area of serious concern, including restricted political and religious freedoms, lack of an independent media, forced adult and child labor, allegations of torture, and poor prison conditions."
Unfortunately, there are many individuals in jail in Uzbekistan who should not be. While human rights activist Alisher Karomatov was released in April – which we very much welcome - many others remain wrongly accused or imprisoned. Most recently, independent journalist Elena Bondar was convicted in a rushed and unfair trial for inflammatory remarks on the Internet despite a lack of evidence linking her to the statements. Abdulaziz Dadahanov was jailed after returning from a student exchange program it the U.S. for allegedly belonging to the moderate Turkey-based religious group Nur. Human rights activist Elena Urlaeva has once again been placed in a psychiatric institution, and in January, Muhammad Bekjanov, who has been behind bars since 1999 and was due to be released, received an additional five-year term.
In Turkmenistan, would-be political opposition and human rights activists are targeted. The exact number of political prisoners or prisoners of conscience is unknown, as the justice system lacks transparency, trials are closed in political cases, and the overall level of repression precludes any independent human rights monitoring. The government has persistently denied access to prisons, including for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Nevertheless, there are several well-known political prisoners, including Annakurban Amanklychev and Sapardurdy Khajiev, who had worked with human rights organizations prior to their imprisonment in 2006. Their colleague Ogulsapar Muradova, who was arrested with them, died two weeks into her sentence; her family reported that her body bore marks of torture. Political dissident Gulgeldy Annaniazov, arrested in 2008, also remains imprisoned after attempting to return to Turkmenistan to visit his family.
Many in the international community, including the Helsinki Commission, have for years urged the Turkmen government to disclose the fate and whereabouts of about 50 prisoners accused in an alleged 2002 plot against former President Nyiazov - including former foreign ministers Boris Shikhmuradov and Batyr Berdiev. These prisoners were taken into custody in November 2002 and have not been heard from since, nor have their families been given any information about their well-being, despite persistent rumors that they have died.
Tajikistan has enacted a restrictive religion law resulting in the arrest of many accused of belonging to certain religious groups. For the first time, in 2012 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended that Tajikistan be designated a country of particular concern (CPC).
While we welcome the release of human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, we are concerned that Kazakhstan has detained several political opposition activists in the wake of a violent crackdown on protesters late last year. We discussed the human rights situation in Kazakhstan in a hearing in January.
While Kyrgyzstan does not have the same issues with political prisoners as its neighbors, we continue to be concerned about the unfair conduct of trials following ethnic violence in June 2010, which appear to have been biased against ethnic Uzbeks and human rights activists supporting them. In a hearing on the issue last summer, we raised the case of Azimzhan Askarov, who remains in prison after documenting the violence. He reportedly may have had evidence of the involvement of some government officials in fomenting the bloodshed.
While some governments claim that ensuring stability and fighting extremism are paramount, laws restricting political participation, independent journalism, civil society, and freedom of religion may have the opposite effect. Given the stubborn persistence of repression, politicized justice and poor conditions in prison, the Helsinki commission has convened this briefing to raise awareness of the plight of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and to examine what the U.S. can do about it.
Our witnesses are:
Dr. Sanjar Umarov, Chairman of the Sunshine Coalition and former political prisoner. Dr. Umarov is a physicist and worked for the Government of Uzbekistan until 1991. He moved to the private sector just before the fall of the Soviet Union, and launched several successful enterprises. In 2005, Dr. Umarov announced his political ambitions and became the Chairman of the Sunshine Coalition, a movement that was promoting dialogue between Uzbek entrepreneurs and the current Uzbek regime. Shortly after in October 2005, he was arrested and given a sentence of 14.5 years. He was recognized as a prisoner of conscience and amnestied on humanitarian grounds in November 2009.
Muzaffar Suleymanov, Europe and Central Asia Research Associate, Committee to Protect Journalists. Mr. Suleymanov joined CPJ in 2007. He is a contributor to several Central Asia news websites and has co-authored numerous CPJ publications, including a 2009 investigative report on impunity in journalist murders in Russia. Prior to joining CPJ, he worked for nonprofits focused on Central Asia, including the Open Society Institute-sponsored Civic Education Project and the American University-based East West Center. He holds a master's degree in international peace studies from the U.N. University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica, and a bachelor's degree in international and comparative politics from the American University-Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He is a 2012 recipient of CPJ's José Barbeito Memorial Award for excellence in press freedom research.
Catherine Cosman, who joined the staff of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as Senior Policy Analyst for the OSCE region in late 2003. She has also served here on the Helsinki Commission working on issues related to Soviet dissents, and at Human Rights Watch, where she wrote several studies on ethnic conflicts in Central Asia and on human rights. She has also worked at the Free Trade Union Institute on emerging trade unions in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, on the OSCE Mission in Estonia, at the National Endowment for Democracy where she managed the Central Asian and Caucasus grants program, and RFE/RL, where she founded and edited "Media Matters" and "(Un)Civil Societies." She received a BA in History from Grinnell College and a MA and an ABD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Brown University. She also has studied at the Free University of Berlin and the All-Union Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.
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WASHINGTON--U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in
(U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) today welcomed the statement by Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer in which the Czech government acknowledged and expressed regret that some Romani women had been sterilized without informed consent.
"I commend Czech officials for the leadership they have shown today in confirming past practices of involuntary sterilization of Romani women," Chairman Cardin said. "Work remains in the Czech Republic and certainly in neighboring
to have justice upheld for women who were forever deprived of the chance to have children."
"The Czech government's expression of regret for the irreversible crimes committed against these women is an important step," Co-Chairman Hastings said. "Now,
must address the issue as the Helsinki Commission urged for the better part of this decade. I regret that after all this time
has not clearly and unequivocally acknowledged that some Romani women there were sterilized without their informed consent."
On Nov. 19, 2009, the U.N. Committee Against Torture recommended that
should "take urgent measures to investigate promptly, impartially, thoroughly and effectively all allegations of involuntary sterilizations of Roma women, prosecute and punish the perpetrators and provide victims with fair and adequate compensation."
The Czechoslovak communist state targeted Romani women for sterilization based on now discredited theories of eugenics and was first reported in the 1970s. Although the sterilization policy ended with the fall of communism in 1990, the practice continued sporadically in both the Czech and
Last year, Sen. Cardin and Rep. Hastings led a Helsinki Commission delegation to
and met with former Minister of Justice and civil rights Ombudsman Otakar Motejl. In 2006, the Ombudsman issued a breakthrough report confirming that some Romani women had been sterilized without informed consent. To date victims of those past practices have been unable to get redress before the courts even in cases where courts confirmed the allegations.
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Tajikistan is known for its rich history, which includes a key post along the Silk Road and the end of Alexander the Great's rule. It has also produced great thinkers, philosophers, scientists and poets, including Rudaki, Avicenna, Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, Jomi, and Rumi. The country is home to communities that still speak the ancient Sogdian language, epic mountain passes, and a civilization that dates back to the 4th millennium BC. And, even today, it is a complex mixture of the Islamic faith, Soviet culture, New West culture and Central Asian traditions.
But Tajikistan is also the poorest of the former Soviet republics. The civil war, which ignited soon after its independence from the U.S.S.R., further damaged the already weak economy. In addition, 93% of the country is mountainous and only 7% of the land is arable. These conditions have resulted in high levels of unemployment and have forced hundreds of thousands to seek work in other countries, mainly Russia. While the people of Tajikistan are working to improve its agricultural production and manufacturing sector, nearly two-thirds of the population still live in abject poverty.
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Testimony :: Samuel Tadros
Research Fellow - Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
(U.S. Helsinki Commission)
Testimony of Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom
From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter: Sectarian Violence and the Struggle for Democratic Transition in Egypt
November, 15, 2011
Thank you Mr. Chairman for holding this timely and important hearing and for inviting me to testify today on the plight of Egypt's Christians and what it signifies for the prospects of a democratic transition in Egypt.
The title of today's hearing suggests a linkage between religious freedom, or more precisely the lack thereof and the prospects of democracy in Egypt. Unfortunately this linkage has been often ignored by policy makers. The modern debasement of the concept of a free society to mean, essentially, the holding of elections has blinded many to the importance of religious freedom to the health and survival of free societies.
The recent massacre of Copts on the 9th of October, while certainly significant in terms of the number of victims and the manner of their deaths, should not blind us to the fact that it is only a continuation of a previous pattern. Attempting to deal with the massacre and propose solutions without recognizing that pattern, would limit our understanding and as a result our proposed remedies.
Previously, before the revolution, Copts were facing three distinct threats, from Islamists, the government and the general population. Each entity has its own internal considerations and goals that help to diminish religious freedom, but it is the dynamic relationship between them that creates ongoing cycles of intolerance and discrimination.
The Islamist threat took the form of direct violent attacks on Copts conduct by terrorist organizations. The recent Alexandria Church bombing on New Year's Eve is a stark reminder of the threat that they pose.
The government itself engaged in rampant discrimination. Ottoman-era laws restricting the building of churches remained in force. Christians were excluded from important government positions. Egypt's Christian heritage was not mentioned in schoolbooks, and Copts were almost completely absent from the political landscape. Attacks against Copts almost always went unpunished.
Most worrisome of all, in recent years, has been the spate of attacks by ordinary Muslims on their Christian neighbors. Starting with the massacre in El-Kosheh in January 2000, recent attacks usually have not been orchestrated by Islamist groups, but have been the result of ordinary Muslims' anger at something they see as an affront to Islam's domination and supremacy in the land of Islam: the resumption of work on an old church, the building of a new one, a rumor of a sexual relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim woman, or a report of a suspected lack of respect for Islam shown by a Christian. The incident usually involves a Muslim mob's attacking Christian homes and shops, ransacking, burning, and, in some cases, killing.
The Mubarak government's reaction to such attacks only encouraged them further. The police never arrived in time to stop the violence, and when they did, they usually simply arrested a couple of dozen local residents, Christians and Muslims alike. The arrested Christians would serve as a bargaining chip that the government would use to force the church to keep quiet. Faced with possible harsh sentences for their people, the clergy felt that their hands were tied. They were made to participate in government-organized reconciliation sessions that gathered local Christian and Muslim clergymen and other notables, the result of which was to force the Christians to drop all charges. These gatherings would also, usually, pass some sentence on the Christian community for its apparent affront — e.g., the family of a Christian man rumored to be involved sexually with a Muslim woman might be forced to emigrate from the village and pay compensation, or the Copts might be forced to abandon building a church and instead conduct their worship in an unmarked house.
As Egyptians took to the streets in January and February of this year, calling for an end to the regime's authoritarian grip on power, some observers were hopeful that the fall of a regime would bring about a change in the sectarian problem in Egypt. Egypt seemed headed to a transition to democracy and images of Christians and Muslims protesting together as well as praying in Tahrir Square created a false optimism on the direction that Egypt was taking.
Reality soon became hard to ignore.
Instead of bringing about change, the past few months have shown a reinforcement of pattern of religious discrimination and a substantial increase in the number of attack on Christians. These new attacks involved the same three responsible parties. Islamists, freed from any restraining check of the police, are now free to enforce their vision on Egyptian society at large and Copts in particular. This enforcement takes the shape both of planned attacks led by Salafis and joined by the local mob, such as the May attacks on churches in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo, and of daily persecutions that though mostly escaping the attention of the press, represent the most alarming aspect the threats facing Copts. Increasingly, Copts living in poorer neighborhoods find themselves forced to abide by certain Islamic practices or face possible punishment. In some cases, Christian girls in government schools have been forced to wear the hijab by the Islamist headmasters, who are now free from government control. In a very disturbing incident, on October 16th, Ayman Nabil Labib, a 17-year-old Christian student was asked by his teacher to remove the cross tattooed on his wrist and the one he was wearing around his neck. When he refused, the teacher was angered and started beating him; his Muslim classmates joined in the beating, which resulted in his death.
The government, meanwhile, evinces a continued lack of interest in protecting Christians. The solution of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to the burning of a church in Atfih in March was to invite Salafi preacher Mohamed Hassan to try to cool down the local Muslims. Appearing on national TV later, however, he explained that the attack was not sectarian in nature, but was driven by the discovery of black magic conducted in the church. No attackers were ever punished. After an attack on a church in Aswan on September 30, the local governor actually encouraged the attackers: He declared on TV that the Christians were to blame for a building violation and that "our boys" had corrected the wrongdoing. As a result, a culture of impunity has been created. Realizing that they will never be punished for their actions, people are emboldened to attack Christians.
When international and local pressure for action becomes high, the government resorts to the old tactic of arresting Christians and using them as a bargaining ship with the Church leadership. Following the recent attack at Maspero, the government arrested a number of young Christians. They remain jailed as we speak.
Most worrisome for the future of Christians in Egypt is the participation of the general Muslim population in these attacks. It is important to note here that those attacks are not driven by a desire to kill Christians. The goal remains for Christians to live, permanently, as second-class citizens. Any attempt by the Copts to break the chains of Dhimmitude and act as equals is seen as an affront to the supremacy of Islam in its own land. What fueled the attack on the Aswan church, for example, was not that Christians wanted to pray; they can do so, as long as the building in which they do so is not a church. The local Muslims' demands were that the building have no bells, no microphones, no crosses, and no domes. What instigated the attacks on the Christians during their march, before they were killed by the army, was their chants of "Raise your head up high, you are a Copt" and their raised crosses. In the new Egypt, you can exist as a Copt, but you are not allowed to be proud of that fact. You will be allowed to survive, but you must show your submission to the religion of the majority and recognize your inferior status.
Faced with these growing threats, it is no surprise that the Copts are questioning whether there is a future for them in the new Egypt. Isolated and ignored by the West, the Copts can only wonder today whether, after 2,000 years, the time has come for them to pack their belongings and leave, as Egypt looks less hospitable to them than ever. Like the Jewish communities scattered in Europe during the Middle Ages, the Copts are realizing the eternal lesson of minorities' survival: Better the persecuting ruler than the mob. A ruler can be bought off or constrained by international pressure; with a mob there are no constraints.
Most importantly elections are not likely to provide any remedy to their predicament. The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extremist Salafists poses an unprecedented threat to the Copts. With the Islamists all but guaranteed to control the next Egyptian Parliament, a culture of impunity is about to become a culture of encouragement.
As recent events have shown, the Copts refuse to accept the inferior status. They refuse simply to disappear, as many ancient communities in the Middle East have done in the last century. They will continue to raise their heads up high with their crosses, but they will not succeed. Neither is Egypt's geography or demographic distribution in their favor.
Neither is immigration. While the intensified pressure and attacks are likely to result in a large wave of emigration, the sheer numbers involved make the complete immigration of the community unfeasible regardless of its undesirability. The most fortunate will take the first planes to the U.S., Canada, and Australia, but a community of 8-10 million people cannot possibly emigrate en masse in a short time. The poorer Copts, the ones who face daily persecution, will be left behind. For them, the winter has already arrived, and it will be cold and long.
For those concerned about Egypt's future and the prospect of a transition to democracy, defending religious freedom remains the only solution. The ballot box offers no magical solution. It is merely a tool. Building a truly free society is like Edmund Burke wrote no easy task, for a free society is one where religious freedom and free enterprise provide the foundation on which democracy can be built.
Egypt remains a key ally and friend of the United States. The direction that Egypt will take will have ramifications on the surrounding countries and as such is of vital importance to the United States national security. There is no question that the United States has at its disposal numerous tools to positively affect the transition in Egypt. The real question is whether it is willing.
The following steps are essential to take:
• Last week's announcement by the head of the military courts that both civilians and military personal are being tried for the Maspero massacre offers the first admission by the Military that something went wrong at that incident and that they lost control of their soldiers. Punishment for those responsible for the massacre should be a first step in dealing with the incident.
• The parliamentary elections in Egypt will not result in any significant Christian representation. Nevertheless Christian participation in the Constitution writing process should be stressed. The new Egyptian Constitution must offer religious freedom for its citizens and equality for all Egyptians regardless of their religion.
• As according to the existing electoral timetable, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will continue to rule and govern Egypt for at least 1 year, and with the collapse of the police, the army is likely to continue being used for basic policing and law and order for some time to come. Not having gone through any policing training, they have shown a lack of ability to deal with such tasks. The US military has developed excellent manuals and built tremendous experience in providing law and order in conflict zones. With its strong ties to the Egyptian military, the U.S. Army can help provide them with necessary trainings.
• While the United States through the State Department and the USAID is providing numerous grants to strengthen democracy in Egypt, there have been disturbing reports recently that some of this money is being provided to Islamist parties and groups, whose commitment to religious freedom is doubtful. Oversight of this funding should ensure that this money is only given to groups committed to religious freedom.
• Copts, like their fellow countrymen are discovering democracy for the first time. They are challenged to organize quickly to be able to have a voice in their country's future. The U.S. must ensure that amongst the groups that it funds, adequate attention and funding is provided to Coptic groups that attempt to organize politically.
Thank you once again for organizing and chairing this hearing and for inviting me to testify.


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