Camille Parmesan: "Star" IPCC "climatologist" was a zoology major; how much time has she ever spent working to understand *natural* climate variability?

UT climate expert chased butterflies to prominence, awards | www.mystatesman.com

The University of Texas’ star climatologist was planning a career in medical research until she met the white rats.
...She told Singer she was switching her major to zoology, and she wanted to write a thesis on butterflies...Her 2007 Nobel is on another wall.
Oh, her Nobel? She shrugs. It was a team Nobel Peace Prize, she says, won with other scientists from throughout the world.
...In the U.S. and Europe, she says, swallows are breeding an average of two weeks earlier than in the past.
...
...In Europe, everybody accepts that climate change is real, she says...“What’s difficult for me is when people are convinced they know what’s happening, and they are totally wrong,” she says. “What I think is so harmful about what some politicians are doing is that people do look up to them. There’s a group of politicians who are virulently anti-science. I don’t know why the U.S. is that way, and it’s only in the U.S. — and a lot of Islamic nations.” That, she says, is why England is a breath of fresh air.

SICB - 2013 meeting - When and how do Tree Swallow chicks die during cold weather?

During periods of cold weather, we weighed and conducted additional QMR scans daily, and determined chick fate. Two cold snaps occurred during the study, and due to nesting asynchrony, cold weather affected chicks at all stages of development. Of the 140 chicks we followed (32 nests), 65 (from 19 nests) died during or immediately following periods of cold weather.