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by Judith Curry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the new media, it\u2019s astonishing  how much trouble a mild-mannered grandmother speaking common sense about climate change can cause without leaving her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m at a bit of an inflection point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After my resignation from Georgia Tech in 2017, I was very busy building up my company Climate Forecast Applications Network<\/a>.  Not to mention busy with several very active Atlantic hurricane seasons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, I entered into a contract with Anthem Press to write a book Climate Uncertainty and Risk<\/a>.  The era of Covid isolation seemed like the perfect time to write a book.   I submitted the book to Anthem in August 2022; it is still undergoing peer review, which is proceeding very slooooowly.  Writing the book was a head exploding experience (I will write more on the book soon, once it actually goes to press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019m trying to figure out what\u2019s next (in addition to continuing to build my company), and I\u2019m experimenting with several new media options.  One might ask what I\u2019m trying to accomplish here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like doing\u00a0wicked science<\/a>: where complex problems and politics intersect, and public communication of the same.\u00a0 I am appalled at the state of both the scientific and policy debates surrounding climate change.\u00a0 I am hoping that my little voice can help bring some common sense to this situation.\u00a0 The work of my company and also my personal interests are moving me in the direction of energy, agriculture and adaptation to weather extremes.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019ve left academia, I can be 100% my own person; I want to flex my wings a bit, and I want to help people. \u00a0And last but not least, I need to hone my interview and public writing skills in anticipation\u00a0 of publication of my book next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting ~2018, this blog entered somewhat of a snooze mode, for reasons mentioned above. Posts were mainly by guest experts or Week in Review posts.   The Week in Review posts served the important function of archiving articles that might be relevant to my book.  Now that the book is submitted, I have been writing more blog posts (no more Week in Review posts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For awhile, blogs became unfashionable, as podcasts and twitter became ascendant.  WUWT remains the only heritage climate blog with a substantial following.  Substack.com has been a game changer, providing an organizing framework for long form writing on blogs (where writers can also get paid).  I am a paid subscriber to about half dozen Substack blogs, and subscribe unpaid to about another half dozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the climate space, Roger Pielke Jr (paid) and Andy Revkin (unpaid) have moved to Substack.  At this point, I plan to keep Climate Etc. as is and completely under my own control,  thus avoiding any possible censorship or institutional pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom line:\u00a0 I will be ramping up the number of blog posts.\u00a0 I very much enjoy the community at Climate Etc. and very much appreciate your participation through comments and direct emails to me. I am especially appreciative of the experts contributing guest posts.\u00a0 I feel like I have a community of e-friends from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Videos\/Podcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not very good at sound bite interviews, either written or audio interviews.  I almost never respond to such requests any more.  However, I do like the long-form podcast interview (30+ minutes).  I\u2019m being invited to do more of these; I have been putting many of these off to the new year, when the timing will be better to talk about my new book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks I have done two long-form interviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n