An Insider's Look at the Secret Lives of Climate Researchers

Here to give you an inside look at the secret lives of climate researchers:

Iowahawk Geographic: The Secret Life of Climate Researchers
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Our very planet depends on them. Yet they remain nature's most elusive scientific species, inhabiting some of the world's most delicate and daunting academic environments. But thanks to new breakthroughs in high speed cameras and email files, metascientists are finally beginning to understand their mysterious behaviors and complex social interactions. Tonight on Iowahawk Geographic: step inside the Secret Life of the Climate Researchers.

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This is the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, home of one of the largest nesting populations of climate scientists in Europe.

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Each year it attracts magnificent migratory flocks of graduate students, adjuncts and visiting faculty from across the northern hemisphere.

Shots of jumbo jets landing at Heathrow; herds of climate researchers busily milling at Duty Free shops, retrieving baggage, phoning for prearranged limo service

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