Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: "It's laughable to think, as a private sector meteorologist whose livelihood depends on being right, that one can separate climate from weather. ... Suppose someone gives you a grant to study global warming. Can you come back and say, 'My research says there's no global warming'? You have been given a grant to produce a result; how can you possibly justify that result if it's the result that would cost nothing to come up with in the first place? ... [Climatologists] believe the idea is the product. Destroy the idea, you destroy the product; destroy the product, you destroy the person. ... The answer is the fruit of my labor, not the object of it. Because of that, you'll look for anything to come up with the correct answer, not just a predetermined one where your self-esteem depends on it. So these giants of science have a fundamental problem, and it runs contrary to their nature. In the end, the very talent and brilliance of a lot of these people may be what blinds them to what it takes to truly pursue the truth."