THERE THEY GO AGAIN

The expression "Red Team" entered the vocabulary of the climate wars in 2014, when the American Physical Society (APS) staged a workshop to review its position on climate change in Brooklyn, New York. It was chaired by former British Petroleum Chief Scientist, JASON head and  DOE undersecretary Steven Koonin, then vice-chairman of the APS Public Affairs Panel.
 

The workshop adopted a red team/blue team format in which three mainstream climate scientists Isaac Held, Ben Santer and William Collins debated three skeptics John Christy, Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen over questions challenging the IPCC’s  2013 Fifth Assessment Report . The workshop’s transcript describes this as a red team/blue team exercise to test the robustness of climate science claims.