His climate-skeptic credentials are pretty strong : he has denounced both al gore and my colleague tom friedman as " exaggerators , " and he has participated in a number of attacks on climate research , including the witch hunt over innocuous e-mails from british climate researchers .
There I was in my ideal habitat -- a natural exaggerator surrounded by natural exaggerators -- and yet , to my surprise , I found myself drawn to dave , the one student in my program who didn 't seem eager to impress everyone with his raconteur skills .
