Just use the buzz phrase “climate change” and you’ll get a big fat grant, no matter what the research topic is.
Of course. Without the abracadabra words of “climate change” these geology academics wouldn’t be able to reach their hands into the pockets of taxpayers via grants for their invented study. They’d have to find real jobs that satisfied actual demand.
But the use of “climate change” in that context is more or less correct. Plenty of historical geology examples, real physical data not computer simulations off proxy data.
Climate change has made my wallet thin. Send money ASAP