This was a NOAA sponsored report so it's unlikely he will be receiving large grants in the future.
A dissenting viewpoint in the story was left out due to FR's excerpt length restrictions. Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at California's Stanford University not involved in the NOAA report was quoted saying:
"We are trying to understand whether the global warming that has already happened is increasing the probability of such extremes
In September, Diffenbaugh published a study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society concluding that such a high-pressure ridge off California is indeed more likely to develop in a warming atmosphere.
“This was a NOAA sponsored report so it’s unlikely he will be receiving large grants in the future”
Very true. Not the answer they were looking for.