Category Archives: Politics

Interview: Climate Change – A Different Perspective with Judith Curry

Posted on January 30, 2021 by | 374 comments

by Judith Curry

My recent interview on the Strong and Free podcast.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

The blame game

Posted on December 7, 2020 by | 734 comments

by Judith Curry

How the ‘blame game’ gets in the way of solving complex societal problems.

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics

Science and politics

Posted on October 26, 2020 by | 632 comments

by Judith Curry

“I’m reaching out to scientists this week about the election. How do you feel about it? Which of the candidates has the best plan, for you, in science and technology?”

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Climate science and the Supreme Court

Posted on October 16, 2020 by | 737 comments

by Judith Curry

An alternative assessment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s statements on climate change.

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Madrid

Posted on December 2, 2019 by | 432 comments

by Judith Curry

The UN Climate Change Conference this week in Madrid provides an important opportunity to reflect on state of the public debate surrounding climate change.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Truth(?) in testimony and convincing policy makers

Posted on June 27, 2019 by | 155 comments

by Judith Curry

Some reflections, stimulated by yesterday’s Congressional Hearing, on the different strategies of presenting Congressional testimony.

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Posted in Politics, Scientific method, Sociology of science

Cliff Mass: victim of academic political bullying

Posted on December 12, 2018 by | 148 comments

by Judith Curry

There is a disturbing story coming out of the University of Washington surrounding Cliff Mass.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Voices of reason in the ‘climate wars’

Posted on June 10, 2018 by | 260 comments

by Judith Curry

A recent and worthy attempt to redefine the ‘front’ in the ‘climate wars’, which could lead to a truce and possibly pave the way for rational progress.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

The blame game

Posted on August 14, 2017 by | 182 comments

by Judith Curry

For the sake of argument, let’s accept the IPCC conclusions regarding attribution of global warming, and their 21st century projections.  So, exactly who in the U.S. bears the blame for current and future damages?

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

The politics of knowledge

Posted on April 12, 2017 by | 113 comments

by Judith Curry

One needs to ask good questions about whose claims to trust and why. – Sheila Jasanoff

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

House Science Committee Hearing – Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method

Posted on March 22, 2017 by | 424 comments

by Judith Curry

Witnesses:  John Christy, Judith Curry, Michael Mann and Roger Pielke Jr.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Conflating the climate problem with the solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 by | 181 comments

“one of the real tragedies that totally distorted the debate over climate change was that it got tied into the solution in a way that if you accepted the first you had to accept the second. And I think that was profoundly wrong.” – Newt Gingrich

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Shifting sands of the climate debate

Posted on December 12, 2016 by | 462 comments

by Judith Curry

Insiders are out; and outsiders are becoming the insiders.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

‘Truthiness’ and ‘factiness’ in politicized scientific debates

Posted on December 3, 2016 by | 355 comments

by Judith Curry

The trappings of science can be decoupled from the actual rigor of science.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

The real war on science

Posted on November 21, 2016 by | 596 comments

by Judith Curry

The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. – John Tierney

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

U.S. Presidential election discussion thread. Part VI

Posted on April 18, 2016 by | 352 comments

by Judith Curry

The election is heating up with the forthcoming primary in New York

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U.S. Presidential discussion thread. Part IV

Posted on March 23, 2016 by | 772 comments

by Judith Curry

A new thread for this discussion.

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U.S. Presidential election discussion thread

Posted on March 15, 2016 by | 816 comments

by Judith Curry

Such drama.

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U.S. presidential discussion thread: Part II

Posted on March 8, 2016 by | 686 comments

by Judith Curry

The U.S. presidential primaries continue to heat up.

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JC op ed: the politics surrounding global temperature data

Posted on November 5, 2015 by | 381 comments

by Judith Curry

My op-ed in Fox News:  Is government tinkering with global warming data?

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

My Fox News op-ed on RICO

Posted on September 28, 2015 by | 462 comments

by Judith Curry

A new low in science: criminalizing climate skeptics.

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Posted in Ethics, Politics, Sociology of science

Carbon mandate: an account of collusion, cutting corners and costing Americans billions

Posted on September 25, 2015 by | 205 comments

by Judith Curry

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Releases Oversight Report: Obama’s Carbon Mandate: An Account of Collusion, Cutting Corners, and Costing Americans Billions

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Carly Fiorina hits the ‘sweet spot’ on climate change

Posted on August 12, 2015 by | 185 comments

by Judith Curry

Carly Fiorina shows how to address the left on climate change.

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State of the climate debate in the U.S.

Posted on June 15, 2015 by | 307 comments

by Judith Curry

I am just about to head to London, to make my presentation in the House of Lords:  State of the Climate Debate in the U.S.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Road to Paris: Tracking climate pledges

Posted on April 1, 2015 by | 368 comments

by Judith Curry

I’m working to wrap my head around the emerging UNFCCC pledges to cut carbon emissions, in preparation for the Paris meeting next December.  Here’s what I’m reading.

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics