text: Consider who the skeptics are that Trenberth is referring to. This quote was supposedly in response to a group of scientists who contend that the link between global warming and hurricanes is thus far weak and undetectable. These skeptics lay out their case in a soon-to-be-published article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) entitled Hurricanes and global warming. The skeptics who wrote the article are: Roger Pielke, Jr., a leading researcher on risk and loss association with severe storms and hurricanes; Christopher Landsea, a leading researcher on hurricanes and climate; Kerry Emanuel, a leading hurricane modeler; Max Mayfield, the head of the National Hurricane Center; Jim Laver, head of the Climate Prediction Center; and Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. According to Pielke Jr., the papers lead author, the purpose of the paper was to provide a concise, largely non-technical, scientifically rigorous, globally inclusive, and interdisciplinary perspective on the state of current understandings of hurricanes and global warming that is explicitly discussed in the context of policy.