Let me say at the outset that I approach this subject from the perspective of a policy practitioner in defense and foreign policy matters, not as a climatologist.

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As Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, observes, attacks on climate scientists, sometimes paid for by carbon-emitting industries when global warming first became a public issue, have made many researchers in the field nervous and defensive.

ECONOMIST: Leaked e-mails do not show climate scientists at their best

The widespread blazes are more typical of the wildfires that break out in the grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains this time of year, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

WSJ: Brush Fires Sear Region

Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.

NEWYORKER: The Day After Tomorrow

Do it for those reasons, even if you think Leonardo DiCaprio is a good actor and a flawed climatologist.

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The Los Angeles area has received less than 2 inches of rain since January, making the bone-dry region "definitely ripe for these fires, " said William Patzert, a NASA climatologist.

CNN: Fire rages in California even as winds die down

As a quintessential science example, federal climatologist Ben Santer just published a pal-reviewed paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences loudly proclaiming that the dreaded man-made global warming signal has emerged from our naturally chaotic climate.

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