To: Brumar89 who wrote (899509 ) 11/8/2015 9:23:37 AM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576761 This Judith Curry? Some history that led to Judith Curry hunkering down in the NOAA conspiracy theorists' bunker Sou | 12:17 AM The last couple of days has seen ex-scientist Judith Curry hunkering down in the conspiracy theorists' bunker . She is suggesting that the scientists at NOAA are "biasing and spinning climate science to support a political agenda ". If that's what they were doing (it isn't, as climate researcher Peter Thorne explains ), they were not doing it at all well. For one thing, they've published papers describing their work in considerable detail, and the data is freely available ( here and here and here ) for anyone to check. Judith has no expertise in putting together surface temperature records (if you can't tell from reading her articles), so she wouldn't know what to do with the NOAA data any more than Lamar Smith does. (Judith dropped off the Berkeley Earth project team at an early stage, without making any substantive contribution.) She does know how to insinuate and spread nasty smear campaigns, however. Over the years she's honed that art to a reasonable, if patently transparent, level.Warning: I prefer to write about science rather than people. HotWhopper exists primarily to demolish the disinformation from science deniers and replace it with facts. Judith Curry is a special case. She is/was a scientist who's now made it her life's work to vilify her colleagues and spout nonsense about science. If you are uncomfortable with this sort of write up, there are plenty of other articles here at HotWhopper that might interest you. This article doesn't contain much of anything new, except for Judith's latest conspiracy theory. I've just put together some background based on material which is available on the internet, and added some commentary.blog.hotwhopper.com