Boffins blasted for wasting £200k of tax-payers’ cash studying impact of Star Wars on climate change

BOFFINS person been blasted for wasting tax-payers’ currency researching the interaction of Star Wars connected clime change.

The Government-funded UK Research and Innovation gave £200,000 to a assemblage task examining the interaction of fictional film robot R2-D2.

The Open University besides looked into the interaction of props and costumes utilized successful the sci-fi franchise.

The task began successful 2022 and is acceptable to extremity successful March.

Academics said it fed “into a broader survey astir environmental, militaristic and socioeconomic histories of Star Wars”.

They recovered it would instrumentality a histrion 33 years to seizure emissions made by creating the R2-D2 for the 1977 film.

But it would instrumentality 202 years for a histrion to seizure emissions from his integer mentation — created with computers.

Andrew Montford astatine the Net Zero Watch said: "It has been wide for galore years that climate change is being utilized arsenic an excuse to present immense backing and world jobs to a tiny service of pseudo-intellectuals.

“It is rather shameful that this benignant of task spending is being authorised astatine all, fto unsocial spending connected the standard that seems to beryllium the norm today.

“The backing councils are wasting nationalist wealth connected a prodigious standard and ministers request to bring them to heel.”

Joanna Marchong from the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Funded probe should absorption connected existent science and not sci-fi fantasies.”