Category Archives: Politics

“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 curryja | 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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Politics discussion thread II

Posted on October 2, 2020 by curryja | 701 comments

by Judith Curry

Looks like we need a new thread on this.

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Madrid

Posted on December 2, 2019 by curryja | 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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Truth(?) in testimony and convincing policy makers

Posted on June 27, 2019 by curryja | 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 curryja | 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 curryja | 260 comments

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The blame game

Posted on August 14, 2017 by curryja | 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 curryja | 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 curryja | 424 comments

by Judith Curry

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

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Scott Pruitt’s statement on climate change

Posted on March 11, 2017 by curryja | 708 comments

by Judith Curry

My analysis of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent statements on climate change, and the response to his statements.

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Conflating the climate problem with the solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 by curryja | 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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