Hillary Toobin

blunt authoritative resolute direct precise

Hillary Toobin works as a USGS hydroclimatologist who briefs Leo McGarry and staff on the Alaska glacial collapse that killed 14 people. She links the disaster directly to seven-degree regional warming trends, retreating glaciers, and greenhouse gas emissions. Paul Hendricks introduces her expertise during the meeting. Leo later cites her assessment to C.J. and Will, noting seven geologists agree, which prompts debate over public messaging and potential reprimand to control the climate narrative amid rescue operations.

3 appearances

Hillary Toobin's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

3 moments

S4E18 · Privateers

Kachadee Evacuation: Pavehawks En Route, Climate Toll Named

Clinically blunt — steady and unsentimental, but motivated by urgency to have scientific realities acknowledged.

Hillary Toobin interrupts with a blunt scientific assessment: she links a seven-degree regional warming trend to glacier retreat and lake overflows, attributing this morning's 14 deaths to global warming rather …

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S4E18 · Privateers

Naming Alaska's Deaths as Climate Fatalities

Gravely resolute; she speaks with professional urgency and moral clarity, impatient with euphemism or deflection.

Hillary Toobin interrupts the logistics-focused exchange with a blunt scientific diagnosis, explaining the seven-degree local warming, glacier retreat, resulting lake formation, and the mechanism by which those changes caused the …

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S4E18 · Privateers

Choosing the Message: Will Agrees to Scold the Scientist

Inferred as assertive and professional — delivering a scientifically grounded but politically inconvenient conclusion.

Hillary Toobin is referenced as the hydroclimatologist whose blunt assessment links the Alaska disaster to greenhouse-gas-driven warming; she is the focal point of the debate though not physically present in …

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