Judith Curry (bio, publications)

Dr. Judith A. Curry

Ph.D. Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago Professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Link to website: judithcurry.com Judith Curry, Profile at Georgia Tech (link) Judith Curry, CV (link) Judith Curry Refereed Papers (link) President’s Climate Action Plan (link) Uncertainty gets a seat at the “big table:” Part IV (link) Global warming statistical meltdown (link) Climate change availability cascade (link) Is climate change a ‘ruin’ problem? (link)

From “Climate change availability cascade” April 9, 2015 Politicians, activists and journalists have stimulated an ‘availability cascade’ [link] to support alarm about human-caused climate change.

Climate change may exacerbate environmental problems that are caused by overpopulation, poorly planned land-use and over-exploitation of natural resources.

However, for the most part it is very difficult to separate out the impacts of human caused climate change from natural climate change and from other societal impacts.

Nevertheless, climate change has become a grand narrative in which human-caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems. Everything that goes wrong then reinforces the conviction that that there is only one thing we can do prevent societal problems – stop burning fossil fuels. This grand narrative misleads us to think that if we solve the problem of climate change, then these other problems would also be solved.