I'm wondering whether you have a gotcha in mind
Nope, no gotchas. It's just that I feel very certain that he would call himself a scientist and perceive himself that way. It's strange to me that you think otherwise. Clearly one of us is mistaken :-)
At least one of us. (He might hold some intermediate view of himself that would surprise us both.)
Here is an article he wrote. Some brief quotations, which seem to me like things he wouldn't have written if he numbered himself among the scientists:
...there is great diversity in terminology and underlying assumptions about what climate is and how scholars analyze it, [...] about environmental historians’ responsibility to engage the general public and policymakers, about whether historians use or criticize contemporary natural sciences, and about our capaci
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