Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry Resigns From Georgia Tech

One of the world's leading experts has resigned among climate change "craziness"

Let me preface this post with this before people go off on a tangent: Dr. Curry does not deny the reality of AGW. She acknowledges the fact that the Earth is warming at an accelerated rate and this is caused at least in part by man's influence:

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Curry actually believes, along with the vast majority of climate scientists, that humans are warming the planet, and was even an outspoken advocate of the issue during the George W. Bush years. She was among the first to connect global warming to hurricanes, for example, publishing an influential study in Science in 2006. But where she breaks with the majority opinion is over just how much humans are actually causing global temperatures to rise.

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She has however been a dissenter on the topic of HOW IMMINENT the threat is, the RELATIVE DEGREE of human influence and HOW MUCH we could effect real change without collapsing modern society altogether, which is really what the debate SHOULD be about:

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Where many scientists say that humans are the primary cause of warming, Curry believes natural forces play a larger role. She also believes that uncertainty around climate models means we don't have to act so quickly and that current plans would do little to mitigate warming.

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In announcing her retirement, Curry wrote about what she called her "growing disenchantment with universities, the academic field of climate science and scientists." She said a deciding factor for leaving the ivory tower was that "I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science," adding that research and funding for it are highly politicized.

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The moral of this post is that too many people get caught up in and dig in their heels over the topic of AWG existing. This bogs down discussion and gives the alarmists an easy out by simply mocking views which are impossible to soundly defend.

The direction of objective needs to be shifted to the sustainable and supported position that, while AGW is real, the state of imminent danger has been inflated and the relative impact we have is not as great as is being portrayed.

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