Or, more substantively, does the climate science field really look like something that has endless funding? If that were the case, then they'd be limited by manpower, not money.
Colleges and universities would be going all-out to attract talent to climate science programs, in order to be able to staff lots of grants and get the fountains of government cash. Promising high school students would be treated like football stars, with no NCAA limits on gifts, in order to fill undergrad programs. Graduate programs would likewise be dangling cars and sex in front of top undergrads.
Universities would be building Taj Mahal climate science research facilities, the better to hold all those grad students and get the fat grants from the government.
I don't really see that happening.
Nor does anyone actually think climate science is "where the money is". Why would anyone waste time on HN if there were trillions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions, flowing into climate science?
Even big science projects like the National Ignition Facility that approach $10 billion only do so over the course of many years.
Colleges and universities would be going all-out to attract talent to climate science programs, in order to be able to staff lots of grants and get the fountains of government cash. Promising high school students would be treated like football stars, with no NCAA limits on gifts, in order to fill undergrad programs. Graduate programs would likewise be dangling cars and sex in front of top undergrads.
Universities would be building Taj Mahal climate science research facilities, the better to hold all those grad students and get the fat grants from the government.
I don't really see that happening.
Nor does anyone actually think climate science is "where the money is". Why would anyone waste time on HN if there were trillions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions, flowing into climate science?
Even big science projects like the National Ignition Facility that approach $10 billion only do so over the course of many years.