Maggie's Farm

That's like saying there should be lots of current papers showing the Earth is round.

Global warming and climate change are well-established scientific findings, so research has moved on. Search terms such as cloud feedback, climate model, climate dynamics, climate sensitivity, and climate system have increased in frequency, as well as adaptation terms such as climate adaptation, decarbonization, and net zero. But sure, the dearth of papers on the Earth being round shows "We Passed Peak 'Round Earth' (um) Research". Flat Eartherism prevails!

Anon: You're saying we have a near-perfect understanding of the incredibly complex processes that control the climate so no more research is needed?

That is exactly contrary to our position. Continuing the analogy: When the Flat-Earth Model was superseded by the Spherical-Earth Model, was that the end of research into the Earth's shape? Well, no. The Spherical-Earth model was superseded by the Oblate-Spheroid Model (For example, consider Halley's experimental measurement of the retardation of the pendulum in 1677 done well after the Earth had been circumnavigated.) And this model was superseded by the more accurate Pear-Shaped-Oblate-Spheroid Model. And now we have satellite-based geoid measurements, but precious few papers that use the term "Round Earth".

Similarly with global warming and climate change. The evidence of global warming is very strong and crosses multiple disciplines. The evidence that much if not all of the current warming is anthropomorphic is also very strong. But refining estimates of climate sensitivity, cloud feedbacks, and how the excess heat will be distributed through the climate system are still areas of active study. So, when a study comes out that is about climate sensitivity, it is about global warming, even if that exact term isn't used. (Google Scholar for "climate sensitivity" has increased 70% from 2020 to 2025.)

There's a nice video here of the Earth's geoid.

James: That explain the 78% decline in publication in a mere five years.

Mirroring the decline in papers concerning "Round Earth". And by means of the same fallacious dichotomy, it implies scientists have abandoned the idea that the Earth is "round".

In any case, ignoring the argument doesn't make it go away. While "climate change" has decreased in frequency in Google Scholar, other terms, such as "climate sensitivity" have increased over the same period.

James: Surely those were subjects prior to '21 as well.

They were. While anthropogenic global warming is well-established, the details of how the climate will change in response the additional energy is an active field of study. Hence, the launch of scientific satellites, such as EarthCARE and Biomass. See below.

Here's an interesting statistic, a search for "evolution" in Google Scholar declined by nearly 80% from 2020 to 2025. By the vested power of the fallacious dichotomy and of blind-eye statistics, creationism wins.

My gosh! Did they cure cancer?! A Google Scholar search for "cancer" shows more than an 80% decline from 2020 to 2025. It's almost as if you can't really rely on Google Scholar for hit counts on scientific topics. But that can't be right—because the person who confirmed your biases said otherwise. Or they cured cancer. There must be an excluded middle in there somewhere.

Heh. Trump is the Chair of the board. He replaced most of the other board members, and made the remaining non-Trumpy members of the board non-voting. But sure. It's easy to see why the Chair would want to see Trump get recognition for being such a patron of the fine arts.

Anon: Have the researchers moved on or has research into the field increased?

Did the study of the Earth's shape stop with Galileo or Newton or Halley?

Research is ongoing and has branched off, branches which include observations of Earth's heat radiation, cloud feedback mechanisms, climate sensitivity, and how the regional climate will respond to the increase in energy. So far, studies continue to support the finding that the Earth is round warming.

EarthCARE is a satellite project designed to measure the vertical structure of clouds, aerosol and particle distribution, reflected sunlight, and outgoing infrared radiation.

Biomass uses a new P-band radar to measure the woody material in forests to determine how much carbon forests contain and how that changes over time.