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Seven Other Geologists

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Seven geologists back hydroclimatologist Hillary Toobin's assessment that greenhouse gases triggered the Alaska disaster. Leo invokes their agreement in a DAR reception briefing with C.J. and Will, bolstering scientific weight against political pushback. Their consensus sharpens White House debates on environmental causation, message discipline, and the risks of challenging expert views publicly.

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S4E18 · Privateers

Choosing the Message: Will Agrees to Scold the Scientist

Impersonal and confirmatory — functioning as the weight of expert agreement rather than as active interlocutors.

Seven other geologists are invoked by Leo as corroborating authorities who back Toobin's assessment, strengthening the scientific claim used as the basis for the political decision-making in the exchange.

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