During the Dubya second term, I was at a conference, working with the National Center for Atmospheric Science.
The are big boys in meteorological modeling. The director was peripherally caught up in climategate.
I was part of the DOD that had contracted with them for modeling. They shopped the idea that they could do “global warming” models for the military. The head of our group told them to forget it, because our bosses did not believe manmade global warming was a problem.
He retired (pretty good guy, if fairly liberal) he was replaced with a *very* liberal guy. I only imagine what has happened to the program in the last four years since I retired...
Very lefty I believe. Also illiberal. The liberals of old have nearly vanished, the ones who believed in raising a discussion about what was right and getting consensus on the basis of understood merit. And merit is where warmism has always fallen down. It was but one theory on an entire palette of theories of climate prognostication, and not even the one with the most arguments in its favor. The older scientists who feared an ice age were more realistic, and would have viewed our current weather measurements as, at best, a kind of global Indian summer in the face of a fast approaching global winter.
Illiberal. Illiberal. Dinesh D’Souza put his finger on that, decades back, with his book “Illiberal Education.”