Guest: Dr. Judith Curry, climatologist | Runtime: ~54 min
In 2005, Dr. Judith Curry co-authored a paper in Science on rising hurricane intensity — published two weeks after Katrina hit New Orleans. Overnight she became the face of the extreme-weather-equals-global-warming argument, and, in her words, was treated like a rock star by environmental advocacy groups.
Then Climategate broke in 2009. Curry spoke up and said climate scientists needed to be honest about uncertainty, make their data and methods public, and stop sabotaging the careers of people who disagreed with them. That made her, as she puts it, public enemy number one. A Michael Mann op-ed labelling her a “serial climate disinformer” circulated through Georgia Tech’s own daily news digest to faculty, students, administrators, alumni and donors. She was asked to step down as chair, stripped of teaching and committee assignments, and marginalized until she left the university in 2017.
In this conversation she covers what the data actually supports, what it doesn’t, why she says the extreme weather link has been broken, what the carbon tax and net zero deadlines have really cost, and what she thinks the real agenda behind climate governance is.
She also speaks directly to Alberta — oil and gas, “keep it in the ground,” carbon capture, and why she doesn’t think this province is a good bet for solar.
Chapters
Time Topic 00:00 Cold open / welcome 01:26 Sponsors — NuggetStacker & Snoot Spray 02:53 Introducing Dr. Judith Curry 04:23 How she got pulled into the climate debate — Hurricane Katrina, 2005 07:13 Climategate 2009 and the four things she demanded 08:15 “Public enemy number one” 09:50 Michael Mann, the Huffington Post op-ed, and the end of her Georgia Tech career 12:38 Leaving academia — building CFAN in the private sector 14:19 Pulling the plug on the Climate Etc. blog after 15 years 16:05 The book: Climate Uncertainty and Risk 21:03 Why only senior scientists can afford to dissent 22:20 Clip: John Stossel interview 27:09 Natural variability vs. human-caused warming — “we don’t know” 28:20 The data problem: hurricane records, ice cores, 300-year resolution 30:23 The “carbon dioxide control knob” fairy tale 32:00 A lost generation of climate dynamicists 34:32 Canada’s carbon tax — does it do anything? 35:29 The UN, the WEF, and the globalist agenda 36:25 Trump, Paris, and the DOE Climate Working Group 37:42 Breaking the extreme weather link — and the pivot to tipping points 43:08 Alberta, oil and gas, and “keep it in the ground” 45:07 Net zero deadlines, the wind and solar mistake, micro-nuclear 48:19 Energy abundance, AI and data centres 49:45 Where to get the book 52:09 Closing message: the generation raised on propaganda
“We need to be more honest about uncertainty and be more realistic about the confidence we can place in our assessments.”
“I then became public enemy number one.”
“There’s no way that we can dial down the warming by reducing emissions. That’s just sort of a fairy tale.”
“It’s not about taxing. It’s about non-governmental world control.”
“Here we are in 2026 and everything’s going along pretty well, thank you.”
“We should be truth seeking, truth maxing. Debate used to be the spice of academic life, and now it’s cause for getting censored.”
“I think the biggest tragedy is this generation of young people who were exposed to this very awful propaganda.”
Guest bio
Dr. Judith Curry is Professor Emerita at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she chaired the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years before retiring in 2017. She holds a PhD in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago (1982) and a BS from Northern Illinois University (1974), with prior faculty appointments at Purdue, Wisconsin–Madison, Penn State, and Colorado–Boulder.
She is president and co-founder of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN), founded in 2006, which provides extreme weather forecasting and climate risk assessment to clients in the energy and insurance sectors and to government agencies. She founded the blog Climate Etc. in 2010 and closed it in 2026; the archive remains online. In 2025 she was one of five scientists appointed by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright to the DOE Climate Working Group, which produced a critique of federal climate assessment reports.
Her book, Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response, was published by Anthem Press in 2023.
Links
Book — Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response (Anthem Press, 2023). Note: Dr. Curry says the Kindle edition is by far the most affordable version.
Blog archive — judithcurry.com
CFAN — cfanclimate.net
UnscrewtheNews.com
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