Curry has stated that she is troubled by the "tribal nature" of parts of the climate-science community, and what she sees as stonewalling over the release of data and its analysis for independent review. She has written that climatologists should be more transparent in their dealings with the public and should engage with those skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change.[SUP]
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In February 2010 Curry published an essay called "On the Credibility of Climate Change, Towards Rebuilding Trust" on
Watts Up With That? and other blogs.[SUP]
[13][/SUP] Writing in
The New York Times,
Andrew Revkin calls the essay a message to young scientists who may have been disheartened by the November 2009
climate change controversy known as "
Climategate".[SUP]
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In September 2010, Curry created
Climate Etc., a blog related to climate change and hosted by Curry. In the site's "About" section, the blog's purpose is stated as "Climate Etc. provides a forum for climate researchers, academics and technical experts from other fields, citizen scientists, and the interested public to engage in a discussion on topics related to climate science and the science-policy interface."[SUP]
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Curry testified before the US House Subcommittee on Environment in 2013,[SUP]
[14][/SUP] remarking on the many large uncertainties in forecasting future climate.[SUP]
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