Zhu Kezhen

Chinese meteorologist and geographer (1890–1974), regarded as the founder of modern Chinese climate science, who briefed Mao Zedong alongside missile scientist Qian Xuesen and geologist Li Siguan in 1964. His 1972 reconstruction of roughly 5,000 years of Chinese temperature history was, decades after his death, adopted by 2010s Chinese climate skeptics — not for its scientific content, but because he had reached his conclusions independently of Western climatology.

Matters to this vault as the actual root figure of China's climate-denial history — surfacing when a hypothesis that Song Jian's cybernetics/population-modeling authority carried into that history was tested and found false. Zhu Kezhen, not Song Jian, is the name that history credits.

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