More than 20 years ago I was acquainted with a grad student who was also employed by Boston University in its climatology department. He guffawed about “global warming” and said it was fundamentally a big scam to get research grants.
“it was fundamentally a big scam to get research grants.”
That has been my contention from the beginning.
There is no grant money for any subject that says
everything is normal, but come up with a contrarian
view, then the money flows like honey.
After that, the politicians grab on to it as a way to tax and control.
Soon it becomes the mother of all snowballing scams,
making even a moron like Albert Goreon an billionaire.