Judith Curry on Climate Change

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🗓️ 23 December 2013

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and blogger at Climate Etc. talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change. Curry argues that climate change is a "wicked problem" with a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the expected damage as well as the political and technical challenges of dealing with the phenomenon. She emphasizes the complexity of the climate and how much of the basic science remains incomplete. The conversation closes with a discussion of how concerned citizens can improve their understanding of climate change and climate change policy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host Russ Roberts
0:07.8	of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Our website is econtalk.org or you can subscribe,
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0:19.6	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006. Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.9	Today's December 17th and my guest is Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
0:37.8	She is Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences there.
0:42.0	She has a PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. She serves on the NASA
0:47.2	Advisory Council Earth Science Subcommittee and has recently served on the National Academy's
0:52.5	Climate Research Committee and the NOAA Climate Working Group. She's a fellow of the American
0:57.5	Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
1:01.7	and the American Geophysical Union. And she's also President of Climate Forecast Applications Network,
1:07.4	a consulting firm that helps clients make decisions that are affected by weather and climate.
1:12.4	Her blog is Climate etc., which can be found at Judith Curry.com. Judy, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:19.0	Well, thanks for the opportunity. We're going to talk about climate change, what we know,
1:24.2	and what we don't know. But before we do, I want to mention why I invited you to the program.
1:29.5	I'll listen or recommend you. So I checked out your webpage and I found something very surprising.
1:34.0	There wasn't any yelling there, at least apparent yelling. There were thoughtful comments
1:39.6	by you and your readers, and I read your rules for posting comments. They're a fantastic
1:44.0	guide to civility. They seem to be working, and I was struck by how rare that environment is,
1:49.6	especially in the area of climate change, which is so contentious. So in the spirit of civility,
1:54.7	which I like to think is the spirit of this program, let's talk about climate change. In 2010,
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