Judith Curry Quotes

“Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.”

“I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.”

“If you examine the intensification of a single storm, or even the statistics on intensification for a particular season, factors like wind shear can play an important role.

However, there is no global trend in wind shear or the other factors over the 35-year period.”

“Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.”

“Sea surface temperature is the one that consistently comes up.

What we found is that all the variables have an effect, but those tend to be on a storm-by-storm basis and not over a longer period.”

“The link between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity is an important piece of the global warming debate.”

“The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.”

“The whole question of global warming is something that has to be confronted.”

“This study really shores up the link between rising sea temperature and the intensity of hurricanes.”

“We firm up the link between the increase in sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity, which has been a key issue in the debate about whether global warming is causing an increase in hurricane intensity.”

“We found no long-term trend in things like wind shear. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but there's no global trend.

In any given year, it's different for each ocean.”

“We need to push the reset button on climate change.”

“We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area of understanding seems to be the actual physical mechanism.

Let's target an explanation at an audience that has taken 1 year each of undergraduate physics and chemistry, plus calculus. Once we have something that is convincing at this level, we can work on how to communicate this to the interested public (i.e. those that hang out in the climate blogosphere).”

“We're looking at a much worse hurricane risk than people were thinking about a year ago. Some places are going to become uninsurable.”