Statistics is also at the very
heart of
climate science, in large part because of the discipline's focus
on the statistical properties of weather, including extremes, and how they
change over time.
The center's founder - director, Jerry Taylor, was an energy policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where he helped forge Cato's unflinching
climate denialism («I used to write skeptic talking points for a living,» he said in an April 2017 interview) until an immersion in
climate science led him to a
change of
heart and a 180 - degree turnaround
on climate.