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        <article> <p><strong>Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it hasn’t discouraged climate scientists like Judith Curry.</strong></p> <p>A retired Georgia Tech professor, she argued on her Climate Etc. website that Irma, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, was fueled in large part by “very weak” wind shear and that the hurricane intensified despite Atlantic Ocean temperatures that weren’t unusually warm.</p> <p>That is the kind of talk that could get policymakers who heed her research hauled before the justice system, if some of those in the climate change movement have their way.</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/11/climate-change-activists-want-punishment-for-skept/" target="_blank">Read more</a></p> <p><iframe width="620" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O6XrvhP2AK0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1415299254516-0' style='width:620px;'> </div> </article>
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