When it came to constructing that delay, the spin doctors could find building materials readily available within the scientific community itself. 当涉及到构建这种拖延时，医生们可以在科学界本身找到现成的建筑材料。 In 1976, a young climate modeller named Stephen Schneider decided it was time for someone in the climate science community to make a splash. 1976年，一位名叫斯蒂芬-施耐德的年轻气候建模师决定是时候让气候科学界的某个人大展身手了。 As a graduate student at Columbia University, Schneider wanted to find a research project that could make a difference. 作为哥伦比亚大学的一名研究生，施耐德想找到一个可以有所作为的研究项目。 While hanging out at the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he stumbled across a talk on climate models. 当他在美国国家航空航天局戈达德空间研究所闲逛时，偶然发现了一个关于气候模型的讲座。 He was inspired: “How exciting it was that you could actually simulate something as crazy as the Earth, and then pollute the model, and figure out what might happen – and have some influence on policy in a positive way,” he later recalled. 他受到了启发。他后来回忆说：“你可以真正模拟像地球这样疯狂的东西，然后污染这个模型，看看可能会发生什么--并以积极的方式对政策产生一些影响，这是多么令人兴奋的事情。”