Classic knee-jerk alarmism from IPCC's Julia Cole (married to IPCC's Jonathan "Get Rid of the Medieval Warm Period"? Overpeck): She sees some dust and smoke, then suggests that it's bad, it's "new", and CO2 caused it

Twitter / juliatucson: [Warmist Julia Cole, married to warmist Jonathan Overpeck]

Driving [a private fossil-fueled vehicle?] from Gallup to Cortez CO - dust storms and temps up to 104. Weber fire smoke too. New normal sucks.

Flashback: A Family Vacations Amidst Changing Landscape : NPR

For a scientist couple in the American Southwest, global warming is both professional and personal as they think about the environment they want their children to inherit.

...They've driven out of the baking heat of Tucson in an SUV

Flashback: “Dealing a Mortal Blow” to the MWP « Climate Audit

There has been a considerable amount of speculation over the past few years about which “leading” climate scientist told David Deming that we have to “get rid of” the Medieval Warm Period, including speculation (e.g. ukweatherworld) that it was Jonathan Overpeck (recently one of two Coordinating Lead Authors of AR4 chapter 6).

While the identity of Deming’s correspondent remains uncertain, a Climategate letter from January 13. 2005, written as an instruction from Overpeck as Coordinating Lead Author to IPCC Lead Authors Briffa and Osborn (cc Jansen, Masson-Delmotte), states that Overpeck wants to “deal a mortal blow” to the MWP (and Holocene Optimum) “myths” (480. 1105670738.txt).

Flashback: Jonathan Overpeck, Julia Cole to Stay at UA, Citing Strong Faculty, Administration | LQP at the University of Arizona

Overpeck was one of 33 lead authors on an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report released last year. He was a coordinating lead author, Chapter 6 (Paleoclimate), for the IPCC’s fourth assessment report. Cole was a contributing author for the same chapter.