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In February 2010 Curry published an essay called "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. {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602210201/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7043753.ece}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</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 [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy]].<ref name="Andrew Revkin2"/>
In February 2010 Curry published an essay called "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. {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602210201/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7043753.ece}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</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 [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy]].<ref name="Andrew Revkin2"/>


Curry echoes and supports the perspective of [[Scott Pruitt]], EPA administrator at the time, in her 2017 report "[[Climate model|Climate Models]] for the Layman, notes journalist Julie Kelly of the [[National Review]]. This report critiques the role of climate models in policy-making. In an email exchange with Kelly, Dr. Curry endorses Pruitt's perspectives on the uncertainty in climate change.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Julie |title=Scott Pruitt's Opening Salvo |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/scott-pruitt-challenges-climate-change-orthodoxy/ |website=National Review |accessdate=23 January 2020 |date=13 March 2017}}</ref>
Curry echoes and supports the perspective of [[Scott Pruitt]], EPA administrator at the time, in her 2017 report "[[Climate model|Climate Models]] for the [[Laity|Layman]], notes journalist Julie Kelly of the [[National Review]]. This report critiques the role of climate models in policy-making. In an email exchange with Kelly, Dr. Curry endorses Pruitt's perspectives on the uncertainty in climate change.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Julie |title=Scott Pruitt's Opening Salvo |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/scott-pruitt-challenges-climate-change-orthodoxy/ |website=National Review |accessdate=23 January 2020 |date=13 March 2017}}</ref>


In November 2018, Curry submitted for publication a report on [[sea level rise]] titled “Sea Level and Climate Change”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/special-report-sea-level-rise3.pdf|title=Sea Level and Climate Change|last=Curry|first=Judith|date=November 2018|website=Climate, Etc. by Judith Curry|publisher=Climate Forecast Applications Network|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref> in which she argues against the scientific community's consensus, presenting her case that sea level rise has been a "slow creep" over the last 150 years and has been unaffected by anthropocentric climate change. Though these arguments place her outside the academic consensus, Curry said that her findings were compatible with those presented by the [[International Panel on Climate Change]]. An [[Associated Press]] article suggested that Curry's arguments could dampen moves by cities and municipalities to start lawsuits against oil-and-gas companies seeking recompense for anticipated future damage due to sea level rise.<ref name=sealevel>{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Valerie |title=Judith Curry sea-level study disputes climate-disaster predictions |url=https://apnews.com/8ea04da69167f2e69d7821c752a9b7e2 |website=AP NEWS |accessdate=23 January 2020 |date=27 December 2018}}</ref>
In November 2018, Curry submitted for publication a report on [[sea level rise]] titled “Sea Level and Climate Change”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/special-report-sea-level-rise3.pdf|title=Sea Level and Climate Change|last=Curry|first=Judith|date=November 2018|website=Climate, Etc. by Judith Curry|publisher=Climate Forecast Applications Network|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref> in which she argues against the scientific community's consensus, presenting her case that sea level rise has been a "slow creep" over the last 150 years and has been unaffected by anthropocentric climate change. Though these arguments place her outside the academic consensus, Curry said that her findings were compatible with those presented by the [[International Panel on Climate Change]]. An [[Associated Press]] article suggested that Curry's arguments could dampen moves by cities and municipalities to start lawsuits against oil-and-gas companies seeking recompense for anticipated future damage due to sea level rise.<ref name=sealevel>{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Valerie |title=Judith Curry sea-level study disputes climate-disaster predictions |url=https://apnews.com/8ea04da69167f2e69d7821c752a9b7e2 |website=AP NEWS |accessdate=23 January 2020 |date=27 December 2018}}</ref>

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Judith A. Curry
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NationalityAmerican
EducationB.Sc. in geography, Ph.D. in geophysical sciences
Alma materNorthern Illinois University, (B.Sc., 1974)
University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1982)
OccupationClimatologist
Employer(s)School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Scientific career
ThesisThe formation of continental polar air (1982)
WebsiteCurry's home page – Curry's blog

Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and former 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, climate models, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She is a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee.[1] As of 2017, she has retired from academia.[2][3]

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.

Curry is known both for her emphasis on scientific outreach in general and for her willingness to communicate with skeptic sources in particular. A major venue for such outreach is Curry's popular science blog in which she writes on topics related to climate science and the science-policy interface.[4] In 2019 she stated that she would not “bother with” peer-reviewed journals, in favor of publishing her own papers so that she could editorialize and write what she wanted “without worrying about the norms and agendas of the ‘establishment.’”[5]

Education

Curry graduated cum laude from Northern Illinois University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Geography. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1982.[6]

Career

Curry is a Professor Emerita[6] and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology; she held the latter position from 2002 to 2013.[7] Curry retired from her university position in 2017, citing the anti-skeptic bias as her reason for leaving academia.[8] Curry serves on NASA Advisory Council Earth Science Subcommittee whose mission is to provide advice and recommendations to NASA on issues of program priorities and policy. She was a member of the NOAA Climate Working Group from 2004-2009, a member of the National Academies Space Studies Board from 2004-2007, and a member of the National Academies Climate Research Group from 2003-2006.[6]

Curry is a former professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has held faculty positions at Penn State University, Purdue, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[6] Curry has been active in researching possible connections between hurricane intensity and global warming.[9][10] Her research group has also done research linking the size of hurricanes and resulting damage that showed that, among other things, the size of the hurricanes was an important factor in determining the number of tornadoes spawned by the system.[11]

After leaving academia, Curry shifted to running the Climate Forecast Applications Network, a climate-risk consulting company whose clients include federal agencies, insurance companies, and energy companies.[8][12]

Climate change

Judith Curry has argued that climatologists should be more accommodating of those skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change.[13][14] Curry stated in 2009 that she felt troubled by what she called the "tribal nature" of parts of the climate-science community and what she saw as stonewalling over the release of data and its analysis for independent review.[13]

Regarding climate change, she thinks that the IPCC reports typically neglect what she calls the "Uncertainty Monster"[15] in projecting future climate trends, which she calls a "wicked problem."[16]

In 2010, in "Climate heretic: Judith Curry turns on her colleagues,"[17][18] Michael Lemonick wrote, "Few scientists would claim the IPCC is perfect, but Curry thinks it needs thoroughgoing reform. She accuses it of "corruption." "I'm not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC," she says, "because I think I don't have confidence in the process." Lemonick concluded, "Curry and the skeptics have their own cause for grievance. They feel they have all been lumped together as crackpots, no matter how worthy their arguments. The whole thing has become a political potboiler, and what might be the normal insider debates over the minutiae of data, methodology and conclusions have gotten shrill. It is perhaps unreasonable to expect everyone to stop sniping at one another, but given the high stakes, it is crucial to focus on the science itself and not the noise."

Between 2014 and February 2019, Curry testified before at least six Republican-led House committees, expressing the idea that the dangers of global warming are overstated and difficult to predict. These testimonies include statements criticizing President Obama’s climate plan, the UN climate action plan, and other policy proposals aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. In her testimony before the Natural Resources Committee on February 6, 2019, Curry stated that, “Man-made climate change is not an existential threat in the 21st century.... The perception of a near-term apocalypse has narrowed the policy options.”[8]

Publications

In the academic phase of her career, Curry made numerous contributions to the academic literature. Curry is the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (1999),[19] and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (2002).[20] Curry has published over 130 scientific peer reviewed papers.[21] Among her awards is the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.[21]

In February 2010 Curry published an essay called "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust" on Watts Up With That? and other blogs.[22] 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 Climatic Research Unit email controversy.[13]

Curry echoes and supports the perspective of Scott Pruitt, EPA administrator at the time, in her 2017 report "Climate Models for the Layman, notes journalist Julie Kelly of the National Review. This report critiques the role of climate models in policy-making. In an email exchange with Kelly, Dr. Curry endorses Pruitt's perspectives on the uncertainty in climate change.[23]

In November 2018, Curry submitted for publication a report on sea level rise titled “Sea Level and Climate Change”[24] in which she argues against the scientific community's consensus, presenting her case that sea level rise has been a "slow creep" over the last 150 years and has been unaffected by anthropocentric climate change. Though these arguments place her outside the academic consensus, Curry said that her findings were compatible with those presented by the International Panel on Climate Change. An Associated Press article suggested that Curry's arguments could dampen moves by cities and municipalities to start lawsuits against oil-and-gas companies seeking recompense for anticipated future damage due to sea level rise.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Curry, Judith. "JC in transition". Climate Etc. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ Waldman, Scott (2017-01-04). "Judith Curry retires, citing 'craziness' of climate science". ClimateWire. Environment & Energy Publishing. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
  4. ^ About Climate Etc.
  5. ^ Curry, Judith (August 22, 2019). "Climate Change: What's the Worst Case?". judithcurry.com. Retrieved 2019-09-19. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 33 (help)
  6. ^ a b c d "Judith A. Curry CV" (PDF). Congress. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  7. ^ Judith Curry (25 August 2010). "About". Climate Etc. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  8. ^ a b c Niiler, Eric (7 February 2019). "Finally! Climate Science Returns to Capitol Hill". Wired. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  9. ^ See, for example:
  10. ^ "Refereed Papers". www.curry.eas.gatech.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  11. ^ "Hurricanes Spawning More U.S. Tornadoes". Live Science. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  12. ^ a b Richardson, Valerie (27 December 2018). "Judith Curry sea-level study disputes climate-disaster predictions". AP NEWS. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  13. ^ a b c Revkin, Andrew (November 27, 2009). "A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics". New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  14. ^ Frank, Adam (2015-02-25). "My Depressing Day With A Famous Climate Skeptic". WGBH News. Retrieved 2020-01-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ Curry, Judith A.; Webster, Peter J. (2011). "Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 175 (12): 1667–1682. Bibcode:2011BAMS...92.1667C. doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3139.1. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2011BAMS3139.1 {{cite journal}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  16. ^ Curry, Judith A. (2010-11-17). "Statement to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the United States House of Representatives" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  18. ^ Lemonick, Michael D. (2010-11-01). "Climate heretic: Judith Curry turns on her colleagues". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.577. ISSN 1476-4687.
  19. ^ Curry, Judith A.; Webster, Peter J. (1999). Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. San Diego, California: Academic Press, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 978-0-12-199570-6.
  20. ^ Holton, James R.; Curry, Judith A.; Pyle, John A., eds. (2002). Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences. Academic Press, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 978-0-12-227090-1.
  21. ^ a b "Hurricanes and Global Warming: The Science, Technologies, and Politics". NASA Researcher News. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  22. ^ Turner, Amy. "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins’ blogosphere", The Times, February 28, 2010. [dead link]
  23. ^ Kelly, Julie (13 March 2017). "Scott Pruitt's Opening Salvo". National Review. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  24. ^ Curry, Judith (November 2018). "Sea Level and Climate Change" (PDF). Climate, Etc. by Judith Curry. Climate Forecast Applications Network. Retrieved January 28, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

General-interest articles by Curry


Books by Curry
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