Scientific American: Taking the temperature: Climate change poll

As a profile of Judith Curry in the December 2010 issue of Scientific American makes clear, the University of Georgia climate scientist has become an increasingly polarizing figure IN the past year or so. Once firmly in the mainstream, Curry says she was radicalized by the so-called Climategate affair.
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So here's the central question: is Curry a heroic whistleblower, speaking the truth when others can’t or won’t? Or has she gone off the scientific deep end, hurling baseless charges at a group of scientists who are doing their best to understand the complexities of Earth's climate? Let us know what you think.