It’s a common joke in Alaska that Global Warming can’t come soon enough.
It’s tongue in cheek, generally related to some weather story which has been conflated to involve Accelerated Global Warming (even though the likelihood that the specific event has anything to do with the changing climate is extremely small).
It’s also worth noting that Climate Science as a discipline is extremely young. As far as I know you can’t even get a specific degree for it anywhere yet. It seems right now the best you can do is a meteorology or atmospheric science degree, or some sort of combined meteorology/climatology degree. That will probably change soon (and there may already be programs I am not aware of), but the study of the climate itself is only a few decades old, so expect a lot of poor theories to give way to more solid theories in the coming years.
The most unfortunate thing about climatology is just how politically charged it is while it is so new. I suppose this happens a lot in science, but it is still unfortunate. It is simply begging researchers to fail the second heuristic, and the usual safe haven of public funding is possibly the biggest source of the problem!
It’s a common joke in Alaska that Global Warming can’t come soon enough.
It’s tongue in cheek, generally related to some weather story which has been conflated to involve Accelerated Global Warming (even though the likelihood that the specific event has anything to do with the changing climate is extremely small).
It’s also worth noting that Climate Science as a discipline is extremely young. As far as I know you can’t even get a specific degree for it anywhere yet. It seems right now the best you can do is a meteorology or atmospheric science degree, or some sort of combined meteorology/climatology degree. That will probably change soon (and there may already be programs I am not aware of), but the study of the climate itself is only a few decades old, so expect a lot of poor theories to give way to more solid theories in the coming years.
The most unfortunate thing about climatology is just how politically charged it is while it is so new. I suppose this happens a lot in science, but it is still unfortunate. It is simply begging researchers to fail the second heuristic, and the usual safe haven of public funding is possibly the biggest source of the problem!