Especially one who has been well published, and trusted by his/her peers.

http://www.wunderground.com/about/jmasters.asp

Director of Meteorology

Jeff Masters
Jeff Masters grew up in suburban Detroit, and attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology in 1982 and 1983, respectively. While working on his Masters degree, he participated in field programs studying acid rain in the Northeast U.S. and air pollution in the Detroit area.

In 1986, he took a position teaching weather forecasting to undergraduates at SUNY Brockport in New York, then later that year moved to Miami to join the Hurricane Hunters as a flight meteorologist for NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center. You can see him on the 1988 PBS documentary NOVA show titled "Hurricane!", flying into Hurricane Gilbert, the strongest hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic at that time. He co-authored several technical papers on wind measurement from aircraft during his four years flying with the Hurricane Hunters.

After nearly getting killed flying into Hurricane Hugo, Jeff left the Hurricane Hunters in 1990 to pursue a Ph.D. degree in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. His 1997 Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Vertical Transport of Carbon Monoxide by Wintertime Mid-latitude Cyclones." The University of Michigan College of Engineering awarded him their 2006 Merit Award as the Alumnus of the year from their Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Department, and Jeff remains active with the Department, offering guest lectures on hurricanes, and managing a Weather Underground undergraduate scholarship program.

While working on his Ph.D., he co-founded The Weather Underground, Inc. in 1995. He wrote much of the software that ingests and formats the raw NWS data used on the website, and created most of the imagery on the tropical page. Jeff currently serves as Director of Meteorology and on the Board of Directors for the company.

or Micheal Shermer.

Since we're talking fantasy here.

Only a couple of people have treated it as such. Maybe I should have stuck with the science forum.

Hail to the chief.

How about a Science Advisory Board consisting of experts in twelve major fields of science led by someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson - whose true gift is the ability to make complex subjects easily understandable by the general public.

He doesn't need to be an expert in all of them; but, he should know who he can contact in any field for more information.

Also, there is an Office of Science and Technology Policy charged with advising the president. The Presidential Science Advisor serves as director of the OSTP.

Biodiversity should be the focus for addressing climate change.

The brains behind unified physics; the perspective to tackle ALL the problems Bernie addresses.

or Dr. David Gorski.

Sid