Judith Curry is an American climatologist, President and co-owner of Climate Forecast Applications Network, a former professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and host of the blog site Climate Etc.
Curry on Climate Change
On Curry’s blog, Climate Etc., Curry says that her views on climate change are “best summarized” by her Congressional Testimonies. In one statement titled “President’s UN Climate Pledge,” Curry says that “recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.”
In Winter 2019, City Journal published an article titled “It’s time to be scientific about global warming, says climatologist Judith Curry.” Author of the article Guy Sorman interviews Curry to discuss the fluctuating answers on global warming’s either helping or harming impacts. Upon being asked if global warming isn’t real, Curry replies, “There is warming, but we don’t really understand its causes. The human factor and carbon dioxide…contribute to warming, but how much is the subject of intense scientific debate.”
In the same article, Curry argues that, between 1910 and 1940, the planet’s warming was caused by natural causes, and that sea levels have been rising since the 1860s. She argues this is because “climate change is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon, with so many processes involved.”
In 2017, Curry resigned from her position at Georgia Institute of Technology, citing “the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science” when trying to discuss the topic among students and postdoctorates. Curry discusses her resignation/retirement on her blog in further detail, saying “The deeper reasons [I resigned] have to do with my growing disenchantment with universities, the academic field of climate science and scientists.”
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