Category Archives: Politics

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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Posted in Policy, Politics

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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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

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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Posted in Policy, Politics

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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Posted in Policy, Politics

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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Posted in Policy, Politics

The Trump shift

Posted on January 25, 2017 by curryja | 431 comments

by Judith Curry

A seismic shift is occurring in a number of federal agencies.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Shifting sands of the climate debate

Posted on December 12, 2016 by curryja | 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 curryja | 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

Earth to Trump

Posted on November 27, 2016 by curryja | 295 comments

by Judith Curry

Defending NASA’s Earth Science Division, in terms that the Trump administration can relate to.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

The real war on science

Posted on November 21, 2016 by curryja | 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

The Trumpocene

Posted on November 18, 2016 by curryja | 1,172 comments

by Judith Curry

Finding common ground in the Age of Trump.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Trumping the climate

Posted on November 13, 2016 by curryja | 404 comments

by Judith Curry

So . . . what can we expect from the Trump administration on environment/climate/energy?

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics

They may not like it, but scientists must work with President Trump

Posted on November 11, 2016 by curryja | 394 comments

by Judith Curry

Jack Stilgoe and Roger Pielke Jr. have written a superb article on the response of scientists to the Trump presidency.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Trumping the elites

Posted on November 9, 2016 by curryja | 1,500 comments

by Judith Curry

A key message of this election is that the power of elites to persuade us has evaporated.

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Posted in Politics

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on November 4, 2016 by curryja | 494 comments

by Judith Curry

Countdown to the U.S. Presidential election

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on October 28, 2016 by curryja | 691 comments

by Judith Curry

11 more days . . .

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on October 22, 2016 by curryja | 581 comments

by Judith Curry

Ok, we’re getting down to the wire.

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on October 14, 2016 by curryja | 699 comments

by Judith Curry

Some new batch of hacked emails is saying Trump groped Bob Dylan according to Putin. – David Phinney

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on October 5, 2016 by curryja | 692 comments

by Judith Curry

It’s time for a new thread.

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on September 24, 2016 by curryja | 501 comments

by Judith Curry

A few interesting articles from this past week

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on September 16, 2016 by curryja | 345 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Politics, Week in review