Baseball Reference similarity scores take lots of things into account — «hustle», «
begrudging admiration», «how much you want to hit him in the face with a pie» — not just stats.
But along with the preening
admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very
begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.