Breaking: Australian Press Coucil release on Andrew Bolt misrepresenting science « Watching the Deniers. Climate Denial “game changer” Fizzles. AP Poll Shows Once Again, Nature Bats Last. December 16, 2012 The buffoonasphere bubble that briefly bobbed up over a leaked non-operative IPCC draft has subsided. Result? Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues. In trying to understand the Judith Curry phenomenon, it is tempting to default to one of two comfortable and familiar story lines.
For most of her career, Curry, who heads the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been known for her work on hurricanes, Arctic ice dynamics and other climate-related topics. But over the past year or so she has become better known for something that annoys, even infuriates, many of her scientific colleagues. Curry has been engaging actively with the climate change skeptic community, largely by participating on outsider blogs such as Climate Audit, the Air Vent and the Blackboard.
Along the way, she has come to question how climatologists react to those who question the science, no matter how well established it is. Select an option below: Climate Denial Crock of the Week.