Like an economy, fields of scientific research undergo periods of boom and bust. The boom in climate science is driven by a confluence of factors: scientific uncertainty, political opportunism, ideological predispositions, a sustained push from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and massive funding from various government entities.
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William N. Butos is a Professor of Economics at Trinity College.
Thomas J. McQuade is a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at New York University.
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