{"id":384605,"date":"2025-06-24T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384605"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:54:05","slug":"climatologist-judith-curry-on-the-politicization-of-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384605","title":{"rendered":"Climatologist Judith Curry on the politicization of climate science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"486\" data-attachment-id=\"384606\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=384606\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?fit=1317%2C885&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1317,885\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Judith-Curry-Interview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?fit=723%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?resize=723%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?resize=1024%2C688&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?resize=1200%2C806&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?w=1317&amp;ssl=1 1317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/06\/23\/climatologist-judith-curry-on-the-politicization-of-climate-science\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=climatologist-judith-curry-on-the-politicization-of-climate-science&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=climatologist-judith-curry-on-the-politicization-of-climate-science#\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYour funding, salary increase, and tenure case are tied to agreeing with the \u2018consensus.\u2019 It\u2019s really about careerism and resources. They all have to dance to that same drumbeat to get professional recognition and professional advancement,\u201d says Dr. Judith Curry, professor emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology, describing the state of climate science and research in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curry has published approximately 190 scientific papers and co-authored several significant publications on climate science. Her 2023 book,<em>&nbsp;Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response<\/em>&nbsp;(part of the Anthem Environment and Sustainability series), provides a comprehensive overview of what we can say with certainty about the climate and balances widespread fears about a climate crisis with a realistic perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout her career, Curry has received several prestigious scientific awards, including the Georgia Tech Graetzinger Moving School Forward Award (2011), Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award (2006), NASA Group Achievement Award for CAMEX-4 (2002), University of Colorado Green Faculty Award (2002), the American Meteorological Society\u2019s Henry G. Houghton Award (1992), and the National Science Foundation\u2019s Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988). She is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), American Geophysical Union (2004), and American Meteorological Society (1995). She has also served as a Councilor for the American Meteorological Society, elected in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpoxk8mL6Tc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Judith Curry: Climate Science Has Become Pseudo Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From Freedom Research<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour funding, salary increase, and tenure case are tied to agreeing with the \u2018consensus.\u2019 It\u2019s really about careerism and resources. They all have to dance to that same drumbeat to get professional recognition and professional advancement,\u201d says Dr. Judith Curry, professor emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology, describing the state of climate science and research in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":384606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819140,691836019,691836020],"class_list":{"0":"post-384605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-science","9":"tag-professor-judith-curry","10":"tag-pseudo-science-2","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Judith-Curry-Interview.jpg?fit=1317%2C885&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1C3j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":231173,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=231173","url_meta":{"origin":384605,"position":0},"title":"\u201cThere\u2019s No Emergency\u201d \u2013 Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Curry made sense of recent extreme weather events and indicated that \u201cEarth has survived far bigger insults than what human beings are doing\u201d.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0Screenshot-2022-11-26-163106.png?fit=897%2C505&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0Screenshot-2022-11-26-163106.png?fit=897%2C505&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0Screenshot-2022-11-26-163106.png?fit=897%2C505&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0Screenshot-2022-11-26-163106.png?fit=897%2C505&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":243637,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=243637","url_meta":{"origin":384605,"position":1},"title":"The Models Are OK, the Predictions Are Wrong | Dr. Judith Curry | EP 329","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Dr. Judith Curry discuss climate change, the major error in current models and future predictions, academic fraud, and the need for dissenting opinions.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00Screenshot-2023-02-07-132647.png?fit=894%2C503&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00Screenshot-2023-02-07-132647.png?fit=894%2C503&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00Screenshot-2023-02-07-132647.png?fit=894%2C503&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00Screenshot-2023-02-07-132647.png?fit=894%2C503&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":273428,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=273428","url_meta":{"origin":384605,"position":2},"title":"The Fake Climate Consensus","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an \u201coverwhelming scientific consensus.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a manufactured consensus,\u201d says climate scientist Judith Curry in my\u00a0new video. 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