F. Kenneth Hare, 1979; „The Vaulting of Intellectual Barriers: The Madison Thrust in Climatology“,  Bulletin American Meteorological Society , Vol. 60, 1979, p. 1171 – 1124

This is obviously the decade in which climate is coming into its own. You hardly heard the word professionally in the 1940s. It was a layman's word. Climatologists were the halt and the lame. And as for the climatologists in public service, in the British service you actually, had to be medically disabled in order to get into the climatological division ! Climatology was a menial occupation that came on the pecking scale somewhat below the advertising profession. It was clearly not the age of climate.

Shelley Dawicki, 2004, Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to Abrupt Climate Change in North Atlantic Region, Source:  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=883 ; Last updated: July 2007

A new study strengthens evidence that the oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance, and that rapid climate change may be related to how vigorously ocean currents transport heat from low to high latitudes.

Spencer Weart, 2007, “The Discovery of Global Warming”: Chapter: Climatology as a Profession;
http://www.aip.org/history/climate . Available as book: HARVARD UNIV. PRESS, 2003.

__Climatologists scarcely recognized their ignorance, relying explicitly or implicitly on old assumptions about the stability of nature. In other sciences like geology, experts found good reason to maintain that natural processes operated in a gradual and uniform fashion.

Spencer Weart, 2007, “The Discovery of Global Warming”: Chapter: Climatology as a Profession;
http://www.aip.org/history/climate . Available as book: HARVARD UNIV. PRESS, 2003.

__….Second World War trained thousands of meteorologists for the armed services. The training gave a big boost to the few universities where scientific meteorology already existed, and led to further expansion after the war. One example was the young geology student Reid Bryson, who was picked up by the Air Force and trained in weather forecasting. After the war he got a Ph.D. in meteorology and, finding himself unwelcome in the geography department at the University of Wisconsin, founded a one-man meteorology department there. In 1962, the National Science Foundation gave him funds to establish an important climate research center.  Another example was Edward Lorenz, who had intended to be a mathematician but was diverted into meteorology during the war, when the Army Air Corps put him to work as a weather forecaster. Bryson and Lorenz were among “a new breed of young Turks” who broke
away from the tradition of climatology as a mere handmaiden to forecasting.

__War-trained young meteorologists also moved into the U.S. Weather Bureau, where they found “the stuffiest outfit you’ve ever seen,” as a member of the research-oriented new generation later recalled—“deadly, deadly dull... a backward outfit.” An official report complained that “the Bureau has displayed an arbitrary and sometimes negative attitude toward new developments in meteorology originating outside the Bureau.” As for climatology at the Bureau, in 1957 another report described it as more than ever a mere passive “subsidiary to the task of forecasting.”