They've fully demonstrated the problem Judith Curry and others pointed out. Scientists use to focus on a particular area to study, geology, tidal physics, oceanography, meteorology etc.

In universities, entire PhD programs have been creeping up under the guise of environmental engineering or climatology. Instead of a hard science, it's really a soft science or I guess you could call it some type of data science.

They essentially aggregate data and do prediction modeling. Our chair often mocks them, but I think he's jealous they get massive funding and fast tracked grants.

Big money to be made if you got a green label on the things you study or work on though