Writer Rick Rinehart endorses Judith Curry as the next director of NCAR

Articles: Scientists Behaving Badly

I have yet to meet anyone who "denies" that climate changes.  The editorial board at the Los Angeles Times recently took the debate down a notch farther by ignorantly referring to the skeptic camp as "climate deniers."  What the hell does that mean?  ...Standing above it all, thank goodness, is a scientist who recalls the honor of Walter Orr Roberts and Jack Eddy: Judith Curry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Not sold on either the skeptic's position or that of the IPCC, she is the adult in the room when the food fights start to break out in the climate kindergarten.  Her response to the Gleick confession was to write a thoughtful blog on the meaning of "integrity," though her disappointment with Gleick is palpable.  She writes, "Gleick's 'integrity' seems to have nothing to do with scientific integrity, but rather loyalty to and consistency with what I have called the UNFCCC/IPCC ideology."  Furthermore, students at Georgia Tech can take courses from Curry and others that present divergent points of view on the current climate controversy and, in an exercise in critical thinking, decide for themselves.  How wonderfully sane and, dare I say, dignified.  

She gets my vote for the next director of NCAR.