For Christmas last year, I gave my son and his wife a lovely painting of their children.
Laguna Beach
It was done by a Laguna Beach artist whose work I like very much.
I hope they will enjoy it especially when the children are grown and gone on with their lives.
The world of Climate research lost a great academic figure as Judith Curry resigns her tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.
She has figured largely in the climate debate as a skeptic in global warming.
I have retired from Georgia Tech, and I have no intention of seeking another academic or administrative position in a university or government agency. However, I most certainly am not retiring from professional life.
Why did I resign my tenured faculty position?
I’m ‘cashing out’ with 186 published journal articles and two books. The superficial reason is that I want to do other things, and no longer need my university salary. This opens up an opportunity for Georgia Tech to make a new hire (see advert).
The deeper reasons have to do with my growing disenchantment with universities, the academic field of climate science and scientists.
She has endured considerable abuse from the alarmist side. She is called a “heretic” in the alarmist circles.
over the past year or so she has become better known for something that annoys, even infuriates, many of her scientific colleagues. Curry has been engaging actively with the climate change skeptic community, largely by participating on outsider blogs such as Climate Audit, the Air Vent and the Black¬board. Along the way, she has come to question how climatologists react to those who question the science, no matter how well established it is. Although many of the skeptics recycle critiques that have long since been disproved, others, she believes, bring up valid points
So, she might have a point. However: