“Put another way, climate scientists often resemble Sarah Connor of the “Terminator” franchise, who knows of a looming catastrophe but must struggle to function in a world that does not comprehend what is coming and, worse, largely ignores the warnings of those who do,” he adds.

“‘An accurate representation’ of the Connor comparison, one scientist darkly notes, ‘would have more crying and wine.’”

In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Dr. Kim Cobb, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech and one of the climate scientists profiled in the article, joins David Corn for a discussion on what it’s like working on a problem that large swaths of the federal government refuses to acknowledge.