Not as glowing as Everson but similar "journalist credentials"
>In 1998 Santer was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming.[4] He has also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Norbert Gerbier/MUMM award from the World Meteorological Organization.[1]
>The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, commonly but unofficially known as a "Genius Grant" , is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation