The idea is the brainchild of Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who partnered with
climate modelers David Rind and Igor Aleinov of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, all in New York City.
Beckwith replies it's almost a battle between
climate modelers, like
David Archer, and researchers with observations on the ground, like Shakhova and here Russian counterparts.