Damnit I left my browser and came back and it restarted me at the top and idk where I was haha. It's a beastly long article and the language is interesting as others have said. I think it still flows tho so to me doesn't read as pretentious.

So am I correct to understand that Huntington or whatever his name was was the prominent climate scientist of his time but also just kinda randomly added racist extra bits in causing him to not be as effective?

tl;dr: a very entertaining account of climate-change beliefs across history. Personally I found the writing style very pleasant.