By doing so not only do we eliminate a whole bunch of make work with questionable / uncertain results, and we end all the complaints data falsification and
quibbling over whose
method really does find the «holy grail of the climate signal» in the US surface temperature record.
Go ahead and
quibble over what constitutes «social science research» or qualifications to employ social science
methods but if you read work he's coauthored it's obvious that Schneider has a good working knowledge of social science research as it applies to thinking about climate change.