Kevin Killough writes for the Just the News about an interesting pronouncement from a leading climate expert.
American climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Tuesday announced that she would no longer maintain her influential blog, “Climate Etc.”
“It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on,” said in her final post. The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.
Some figures like Curry who disputed the “climate crisis” narrative — often in the face of vitriol from those who support it — are now saying their efforts paid off and an era of climate hysteria is coming to an end.
Curry became a controversial figure in the climate debate early on when her research conclusions failed to align with the alarmist narrative. She was labeled a “climate denier,” a slur critics direct at those who don’t support the belief that climate change is not just a risk to be managed but an existential crisis demanding the rapid elimination of fossil fuels.
Curry eventually left what she called the “craziness” of academia to go to work in the private sector. She started her blog in 2010, and it’s been a resource for research and perspectives disputing the dominant narrative ever since.
She explained on Tuesday that she was shutting it down over the high cost of maintaining it — she spent $16,000 over the last four years — but also because the political landscape has changed. She said while the leaders of climate alarmism haven’t conceded defeat, there are many signs that the world isn’t buying into it anymore.
“The whole issue has lost its political relevance,” Curry wrote.
