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A Climate Soap Opera

Discover the Judith Curry Richard Muller controversy that ignited debates in the climate community, echoing past Climategate scandals.

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Is Judith Curry throwing Richard Muller under the bus in this newspaper article, as Anthony Watts chortles here? Or has Curry been played by the notorious David Rose, the author of the Mail piece? Either way, Watts, ever the dramatist, channels his inner Godfather with this faux exasperation:

I try to get away to work on my paper and the climate world explodes, pulling me back in.

Can the climate world please control itself, so Mr. Watts can get back to his serious work? As for the Mail article, Curry is reportedly accusing Muller, as Rose puts it, "of trying to mislead the public" with selective release of data from the BEST study. I'll leave it to Curry to explain which parts of her interview with Rose have been taken out of context or utterly misrepresented (if either is the case). She will likely feel compelled to respond (at her ...

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