Not too long back, the prevailing theory was that primitive man lived in harmony with nature yaddayaddayadda.
And along comes Bill Ruddiman, who introduces his theories that early man changed the terrain and thus significantly changed the climate.
Was he mocked? Ostracized? Ignored? Quite the opposite. He was treated very respectively, everyone was interested in what he had to say, he had no trouble getting published or getting grants, and his theories quickly gained acceptance.
That's how it actually works when someone bucking the climate consensus has the data to back up his theories. A person only gets laughed at if they're a clown.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/a-scientific-debate/
And along comes Bill Ruddiman, who introduces his theories that early man changed the terrain and thus significantly changed the climate.
Was he mocked? Ostracized? Ignored? Quite the opposite. He was treated very respectively, everyone was interested in what he had to say, he had no trouble getting published or getting grants, and his theories quickly gained acceptance.
That's how it actually works when someone bucking the climate consensus has the data to back up his theories. A person only gets laughed at if they're a clown.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/04/a-scientific-debate/