We should not confuse “Climate Computer Modler” with Climatologist.
Most climatologists never bought into the whole manmade global warming mythology. Some of them lost their jobs as they were denounced as “deniers”.
They perform a valuable service in tracking climate over the years by tabulating real data and letting us know what is plausible in the real world.
The El Nino event was discoverd from climatological data.
People plant crops and build dams, orient airfields based on climatological data.
Climatological data is valuable stuff. It is also mostly ignored or degraded by those pushing climate models.
I’d wager a good amount that most “climatologists” sold their souls to the devil to happily climb aboard the climate change juggernaut. How many stayed pure to their professions and ignored the filthy lucre that governments the world-over were dangling under their noses?