Northern Illinois University (B.S. in geography, 1974)
University of Chicago (Ph.D. in geophysical sciences, 1982)
Occupation
Climatologist
Scientific career
Institutions
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis
The Formation of Continental Polar Air(1982)
Website
Curry's home page
Curry's blog
Judith A. Curry (born c. 1953) 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 was a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee,[1] published over a hundred scientific papers, and co-edited several major works.[2] Curry retired from academia in 2017 at age 63, coinciding with her public climate change skepticism.[2]
Curry has become known for hosting a blog which is part of the climate change denial blogosphere, despite having published research confirming anthropogenic effects on climate.[3] Social scientists who have studied Curry's position on climate change have described it as "neo-skepticism", in that her current position includes certain features of denialism; on the one hand, she accepts that the planet is warming, that human-generated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide cause warming, and that the plausible worst-case scenario is potentially catastrophic, but on the other hand she also proposes that the rate of warming is slower than climate models have projected, emphasizes her evaluation of the uncertainty in the climate projection models, and questions whether climate change mitigation is affordable.[4] Despite the broad consensus among climate scientists that climate change requires urgent action, in 2013 Curry testified to the United States Congress that, in her opinion, there is so much uncertainty about natural climate variation that trying to reduce emissions may be pointless.[5]
^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.
^ abWaldman, Scott (2017-01-04). "Judith Curry retires, citing 'craziness' of climate science". ClimateWire. Environment & Energy Publishing. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^Riley E. Dunlap; Robert J. Brulle (2015). Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. Oxford University Press. pp. 317–318. ISBN 978-0-19-935611-9. While a few denialist blogs are hosted by contrarian scientists (e.g. Judith Curry)...(pdf)
^"Reconceptualizing Climate Change Denial: Ideological Denialism Misdiagnoses Climate Change and Limits Effective Action". Human Ecology Review. 25 (2). ANU Press: 123–124. 19 December 2019. doi:10.22459/her.25.02.2019. ISSN 1074-4827.
^Harris, Richard (22 August 2013). "'Uncertain' Science: Judith Curry's Take On Climate Change". NPR. Retrieved 2020-04-04. She says there's so much uncertainty about the role of natural variation in the climate that she doesn't know what's going to happen. She says a catastrophe may be possible, but warming could also turn out to be not such a big deal. And she focuses on uncertainties and unknown unknowns far more than on the consensus of climate scientists, who say we know enough to be deeply worried. .... Her message that day on Capitol Hill was, in essence, that while humans may be contributing to climate change, we simply don't know how the climate will behave in the coming decades, so there may be no point in trying to reduce emissions.
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