Admittedly I am hijacking my own language column a bit to insert my interest in climate change this week, but bear with me. We’ll get to the hot models.

I understand why many conservatives ignore this issue, not so much denying climate science as taking a pragmatic view that the climate space mostly exists as a fig leaf for political power to be exercised against them. But two recent disputes within the climate field highlight why you can sometimes learn more from actually paying attention to this stuff than you can by tuning it out.