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, 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.
Regarding climate change, she thinks that the IPCC reports typically neglect what she calls the "Uncertainty Monster" [4] in projecting future climate trends, which she calls a " wicked problem." [5] Curry also hosts a popular science blog in which she writes on topics related to climate science and the science-policy interface. [6] 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.’”. [7]
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1Education 2Career 2.1Climate change 3See also 4References 5External links
Education[ edit]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. [8]
Career[ edit]Curry was a Professor 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. [9] 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 is a recent member of the NOAA Climate Working Group [9] [10] and a former member of the National Academies Space Studies Board and Climate Research Group. [9] [11]
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. [9] [11] Curry has been active in researching possible connections between hurricane intensity and global warming. [12] [13] 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. [14]
Curry is the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (1999), [15] and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (2002). [16] Curry has published over 130 scientific peer reviewed papers. [17] Among her awards is the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992. [17]
Climate change[ edit]Judith Curry has argued that climatologists should be more accommodating of those skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change. [18] Curry has stated she is troubled by what she calls 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. [18]
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. [19] 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. [18] |
