I have followed Prof Curry since she invited Steve McIntyre (debunker of much of paleoclimatology and disassembler of Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick) to give a talk at Georgia Tech in 2007. Judy Curry was everything you want in scientist: careful, measured, objective, open-minded and deeply knowledgeable and informed.
She has not gone far. I will continue to follow her blog posts.
Correction: Steve McIntyre’s trip was in early 2008.
https://climateaudit.org/2008/02/06/off-to-georgia-tech/
Soon after this invitation to Steve McIntyre,Professor Curry began to be vilified by prominent activists in her field and essentially shunned. The way funding works around the NSF and other funding agencies is that prominent activists can influence what work gets funded and who gets funded. The field of climate science is best described as Lysenkoist - with minimal tolerance of those with contrary opinions.
That Professor Curry fought for so long in this environment is to her credit. May she prosper and prevail.