Why is climatology a “science” and meteorology not? Meteorology makes predictions that are confirmed or falsified. Climatology makes predictions that are forgotten or obsolete before they can be verified. Meteorology is empirical, but climatology is speculative.
Another case of trying to win the word game by calling the ones that the authors agree with scientists but denying that description to the ones that the authors disagree with.
I talked with some of these students at Penn State.
We were discussing their future jobs. One gal said, "it's the only profession where you can be wrong 50% of the time and not lose your job".
Real meteorologists have degrees in meteorology and had to take major science and mathematics in college. I had to take Calculus and Calc-based Physics as well as Chemistry, Geology, Biology to get mine.
My University changed their curriculum, dropped Meteorology, and now give out Climatology degrees that do not make a person take any of those science and math classes.
As I look at the new course syllabus I see a bunch of politically correct garbage classes made to look like science but very few classes that have any substance or give a good grounding in science, math and logic.