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Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist. She has been the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2002. From 1992 to 2002, she was a Professor of (?)Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Prior to that, she taught at Penn State, Purdue, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Curry's research interests have included hurricanes, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research.

Curry earned a B.S. in Geography at Northern Illinois University in 1974, and a Ph.D in Geophysics at the University of Chicago in 1982. She has published two books and over 140 scientific papers. Among her awards was the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.

Since the Climategate controversy developed in 2009, Curry has been critical of some of her colleagues in climate science, in particular of what she sees as their scientific "sloppiness" and ill-advised stonewalling on releasing data. She has been especially critical of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : "The corruptions of the IPCC process, and the question of corruption (or at least inappropriate torquing) of the actual science by the IPCC process, is the key issue," (Is this the best quote?)

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Since the Climategate controversy developed in 2009 Source, Curry has been critical of some of her colleagues in climate science, in particular of what she sees as their scientific "sloppiness" and ill-advised stonewalling on releasing data. She has been especially critical of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : "The corruptions of the IPCC process, and the question of corruption (or at least inappropriate torquing) of the actual science by the IPCC process, is the key issue," (Is this the best quote?)

General-interest articles on climate science and climte-change policy by Judith Curry

 * Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science? at Physics Today, February 24, 2010


 * Curry's open letter to graduate students and young scientists in fields related to climate research at Joseph Romm's "Climate Progress", November 27, 2009.


 * Curry: On the credibility of climate research at Climate Audit, Nov 22, 2009


 * Earlier policy articles by Curry, 2003-2008