Grad student: "Professor, my own analysis isn't matching all these graphs that keep getting published"
Professor: "Don't rock the boat, we're getting a lot of funding."
Keep your profs happy and toe the line if you want that Ph.D.
Professor: "Don't rock the boat, we're getting a lot of funding."
Keep your profs happy and toe the line if you want that Ph.D.
And do you really think they would have difficulty getting funding for climate research contradicting the current consensus?
Indeed, as BEST showed.
edit: erm... why the downvotes? I was giving an example of a climate research study from the "climate change skeptic" side and funded in no small part by the Charles G. Koch Foundation, not exactly a proponent of anthropogenic global warming.
There are also plenty of research lines to get a degree in climatology that does not involve studying this type of stuff and which are not exactly a political issue, after you get your Ph.D you can study whatever you want, I'm pretty sure there's lots of think tanks who would pay for research countering the global warming hypothesis.