It’s been an interesting year for climate scientist Judith
Curry, who after Climategate split with most of her peers and
called for reform in the climate science community. She did this
most publicly via a letter published by Climate Audit, a noted
skeptic web site. Curry called for more transparency in climate
research. But it’s difficult to paint Curry as a skeptic,
especially when considering her scholarly work, the most recent
of which was published this week in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (see abstract). It delves into the question
of why the Antarctic sea ice hasn’t been melting, and builds
upon the consensus climate view. Given the new paper I thought
it a good time to speak with Curry about the last year. Here’s a
transcript of our discussion. We’ve seen rapid melting in the
Arctic, but not in the Antarctic. Is this something that has
concerned climate scientists? It’s sort of a paradox. The
paradox of why the Antarctic isn’t melting and the Arctic is has
gotten a lot of attention,