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In February 2010 she published an essay called [http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/towards_rebuilding_trust.html "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust"] on [[Watts Up With That]] and other blogs.<ref>Turner, Amy. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7043753.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000|title "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins’ blogosphere"], ''The Times'', February 28, 2010.</ref> Writing in ''The New York Times'', Andrew Revkin calls the essay a message to young scientists who may have been disheartened by the November 2009 climate-change controversy known as "[[Climategate]]".<ref name="Andrew Revkin2"/> |
In February 2010 she published an essay called [http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/towards_rebuilding_trust.html "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust"] on [[Watts Up With That]] and other blogs.<ref>Turner, Amy. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7043753.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000|title "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins’ blogosphere"], ''The Times'', February 28, 2010.</ref> Writing in ''The New York Times'', Andrew Revkin calls the essay a message to young scientists who may have been disheartened by the November 2009 climate-change controversy known as "[[Climategate]]".<ref name="Andrew Revkin2"/> |
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In an interview with [[Keith Koor]], Curry spoke about the current scientific consensus on climate change, stating, |
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<blockquote>[[Andrew Montford|[Andrew] Montford’s]] book [[The Hockey Stick Illusion|[''The Hockey Stick Illusion'']]] explains why the hockeystick became a big deal, owing to the IPCC’s choice to make the hockey stick a visual icon for the IPCC in its marketing of the IPCC. Therefore, in the public’s mind, challenges to the hockeystick metaphorically became challenges to the entire global warming argument. And the Climategate emails, while not illuminating any actual scientific misconduct, provided a view into the underbelly of how the consensus was actually built: upon human judgment that was influenced by petty rivalries, a sense of self importance, a political agenda, and the brutal dismissal and even sabotage of competing viewpoints. <ref name=Koor>{{cite blog|title=The Curry Agonistes|url=http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2010/08/03/the-curry-agonistes/|work=[http://www.collide-a-scape.com/ Collide-a-Scape (blog)|author=Koor, Keith|date=August 3, 2010|accessdate=9 August 2010}}</ref></blockquote> |
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Revision as of 18:57, 9 August 2010
Judith A. Curry | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S. (1974) in geography, Ph.D. in geophysical sciences (1982) |
| Alma mater | Northern Illinois University, University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Climatologist |
| Employer(s) | School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Website | Curry's home page |
Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She is a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee.[1]
Curry is the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (1999), and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (2002), as well as over 140 scientific papers. Among her awards is the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.
Education
She received a B.S. cum laude in 1974 from Northern Illinois University in geography, and her Ph.D. in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago in 1982.[2]
Career
She has taught at Penn State, Purdue, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1992 to 2002, she was a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has been the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2002. She has conducted research into possible connections between hurricane intensity and global warming.[3][4]
Climate change controversy
While she supports the scientific opinion on climate change, Curry has said she is troubled by the "tribal nature" of parts of the climate-science community, and what she sees as stonewalling over the release of data and its analysis for independent review. She has written that climatologists should be more transparent in their dealings with the public and should engage with those skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change.[5]
In February 2010 she published an essay called "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust" on Watts Up With That and other blogs.[6] Writing in The New York Times, Andrew Revkin calls the essay a message to young scientists who may have been disheartened by the November 2009 climate-change controversy known as "Climategate".[5]
In an interview with Keith Koor, Curry spoke about the current scientific consensus on climate change, stating,
[Andrew] Montford’s book [The Hockey Stick Illusion] explains why the hockeystick became a big deal, owing to the IPCC’s choice to make the hockey stick a visual icon for the IPCC in its marketing of the IPCC. Therefore, in the public’s mind, challenges to the hockeystick metaphorically became challenges to the entire global warming argument. And the Climategate emails, while not illuminating any actual scientific misconduct, provided a view into the underbelly of how the consensus was actually built: upon human judgment that was influenced by petty rivalries, a sense of self importance, a political agenda, and the brutal dismissal and even sabotage of competing viewpoints. [7]
References
- ^ National Research Council. Review of the U.S. CLIVAR Project Office. Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Project Office, National Academies Press, 2004, p. 35.
- ^ "Judith Curry CV".
- ^ Curry, J.A.; Webster, P.J.; Holland, G.J. (2006), "Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity" (PDF), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87 (8): 1025–1037, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-8-1025
- ^ "Refereed Papers". www.curry.eas.gatech.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ^ a b Revkin, Andrew. "A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics", The New York Times, November 27, 2009.
- ^ Turner, Amy. "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins’ blogosphere", The Times, February 28, 2010.
- ^ Koor, Keith (August 3, 2010). "The Curry Agonistes". [http://www.collide-a-scape.com/ Collide-a-Scape (blog). Retrieved 9 August 2010.
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External links
- Curry's home page, accessed May 21, 2010.
- Email interview of Judith Curry by journalist Keith Kloor, April 23, 2010. Prof. Curry also responds to questions in the comments thread (scroll down).
- Thermodynamics of atmospheres and oceans.
- FIRE Arctic clouds experiment.
- General-interest articles by Curry
- Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science? at Physics Today, February 24, 2010
- Curry's open letter to graduate students and young scientists in fields related to climate research at Joseph Romm's "Climate Progress", November 27, 2009.
- Curry: On the credibility of climate research at Climate Audit, Nov 22, 2009
- Earlier climate policy articles by Curry, 2003–2008