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Georgia Tech Climate Scientist resigns:

Climate Change
Many studies’ results cannot be reproduced, scholars warn
Mark McGreal - UCLA May 10, 2018

Don’t believe the latest study you read in the headlines, chances are, it could be wrong, according to a new report by the National Association of Scholars that delves into what it calls the “use and abuse of statistics in the sciences.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30612/

Fed up with the BS, prominent climate change skeptic professor retires

“… The reward system that is in place for university faculty members is becoming increasingly counterproductive to actually educating students to be able to think and cope in the real world, and in expanding the frontiers of knowledge in a meaningful way (at least in certain fields that are publicly relevant such as climate change).”

Curry continues:

A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc.

How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide (I have worked through these issues with a number of skeptical young scientists).

She rounds out the piece by joking (sort of): “So my fall from the ivory tower that started in 2005 is now complete.”