It's a single study on a specific expected effect of Climate Change.
Although not the most concerning impact of future climate change, climate-related weather extremes may threaten the availability and economic accessibility of beer.
The article has been peer-reviewed, if it has serious flaws in it, people are incentivized to publish an article explaining those flaws and embarrassing the authors.
Trying to make this say something about climate scientists pushing climate change, as per your shamelessly editorialized title, just highlights your own ignorance.
Incentivized how, do they want to lose their job or climate related funding?
You know, most people's funding isn't climate-related. Sure you can suck-up to a coal company and say whatever they want for cash, but most academics have a lot of academic freedom. I think the pressure to publish is more immediate, and if you're not working on anything urgently, showing how someone else's study is crap is relatively easy to do.
Honestly, a study like this is probably made for the cheap-shot headlines. Nobody apart from popular science writers and beer companies are likely to pay much scientific attention to such an insignificant topic.
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