Scientific American writes:
As a profile of Judith Curry in the November 2010 issue of Scientific American makes clear, the University of Georgia climate scientist has become an increasingly polarizing figure IN the past year or so.
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Yet Curry herself is convinced that some of those facts are seriously exaggerated, and that the IPCC has failed to acknowledge the real uncertainty in the science.
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She’s been denounced, sometimes vehemently, for her efforts.
So here’s the central question: Is Curry a heroic whistle-blower, speaking the truth when others can’t or won’t?
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Let us know what you think.
Here’s the link to the poll:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=taking-the-temperature-climate-chan-2010-10-25
h/t to Joe Romm
NOTE: I should add that this poll is rather poorly designed. On that, Mr. Romm and I agree. Bear in mind that many of the questions are multiple choice, and more than one answer can be selected. You can also skip questions that you feel don’t offer a representation of your view. – Anthony
UPDATE: If readers would like to offer some alternative suggestions for question sets in comments, I’ll be happy to setup and run a comparison poll here. – Anthony
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What I say is that Dr Curry is a true scientist.
Just looked at the poll. Hate it. A lot of the questions are the “When do you figure you’ll stop beating your wife” variety.
One answer in the next to last question should have been reversed. It should read: “Keep politics out of the scientific process.”
I am sure this survey was not constructed by a genuine pollster as the questions seemed a bit amateurish.
This will be obvious to most people here, but to any who didn’t notice it, the square buttons are check boxes for which you may may more than one choice.
I strated taking the poll but then I got to question 3. What is causing climate change giving 4 definitive options. Does scientific america read its own articles?
the survey is far too polarized and does not allow for uncertainty itself!
What a crock…
All of their answers are loaded.
The answers give you a choice between being a dufus and a moron……
Horrid poll. I refuse to take it.
Dr. Curry is an “appropriately sceptical scientist”.
The author of that poll is an idiot.
Neither of those were available answers.
Best,
Frank
I decided I couldn’t take the poll. Too many question where they forgot to put a “none of the above” answer. It’s exactly what Frank Lee MeiDere said, if we support Curry but don’t give the kind of answers they want for the other questions, they can show how “biased” or ignorant of climate “science” we are.
It will be impossible to get politics out of the process.
Amateurish and loaded, still I enjoyed taking part!
Scientific American should thank WUWT for doubling the internet traffic for the year in one day. They are finally realising what is current in science.
Given the limited choices in the SA poll, I can’t find any reason to respond to it.
What a crappy poll. To many of the questions had no answer that i agree with…and it would not let me complete the poll with blanks so i had to lie (choose an answer i do not agree with) to complete it.
Anyone ever heard the term “Push Poll”.
If you looked at that poll you now know what one looks like.
I was given no good choices in 2 of the questions…and in one I wanted to click on two choices, but it only allowed one…so the best choice was what I clicked.
Not a very good poll, obviously someone who does not understand the science very well wrote it, or was written by someone with an obvious bias.
Curry is not a skeptic, I think she’s just opening her mind a bit to the points our side makes that have merit.
For some reason, this is really wadding the panties of her colleagues.
The questions and choices is ridiculously biased, and directly designed to twist the right options. Several questions do not allow for any serious and thoughtful answers.
I took it, just to add my two cents in favor of Dr Curry, but it is regrettable that a magazine with the word ‘scientific’ in its name had allowed for such profound stupidity to disgrace its pages.
A very pathetic poll. Poorly written by someone with a clear and obvious bias.
Sorry, I meant “are” instead of “is” in my first phrase.
Soo… there is thus-far about 1100 responses, you should take a look at the results.
That said, yes it is a stupid one-sided poll that either shows contempt of any knowledge the reader may have, or a lack of knowledge by the ‘pollster’. What a bunch of asses!!!!! So much for Scientific…. it should be renamed Unscientific….
Bob
Dr. Curry is at Georgia Tech, not the University of Georgia.
“h/t to Joe Romm” ??
That’s funny.
That poll is the biggest pile of crap I’ve seen. These fanatics have no shame.
Well, I started the poll so thought I might as well finish it.
But maybe SA should have someone write an article entitled:
Can you design a poll better than a fifth grader?