Revelle was only attempting to promote funding of a dynasty. the reason or the goal of a search was only a siedeline. It appears that he was good at finding causes to research and his team was good at dredging up obscure research to follow even if it had been ignored in the past as it proved to be a good source of money. That is the reason that Brother Al received the Revelle award because he did a lot to promote additional funding. This is also why Hansen received an award from AMS when he is not a meteorologist. Chicken Littles promote fear which provides more funding.

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"so much hot air", unfortunately, so true

Thomas C. Peterson, Ph.D. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center,posted this mess in a e-mail to Phil Jones.

Can you name the people in the photo?

I like this one much better!