In an interview with libertarian journalist and pundit John Stossel, climatologist Judith Curry said that the "manufactured consensus" existed because a scientist would achieve "fame and fortune" for exaggerating the risks associated with "climate change."

READ: Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: 'I don't believe there is a climate crisis'

Curry, who formerly served as the chair of the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, admitted that she used to spread alarmism about "climate change" herself.

"We found that the percent of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes had doubled," says Curry. "And so, this was picked up by the media. Alarmists said, 'Oh, here's the way to do it: Tie extreme weather events to global warming!'"

"So, this hysteria is your fault!" Stossel told Curry.

"Well, sort of. Not really. They would have picked up on it anyways," she replied.

Curry said that she became a darling of the mainstream media due to her study tying the alleged increase in intense hurricanes to global warming. She was "flown all over the place to meet with politicians, and give these talks and [received] lots of media attention."

"I was adopted by the environmental advocacy groups and the alarmists, and I was treated like a rockstar," Curry recalled.

When researchers pointed out incongruities in her research, namely years with fewer hurricanes, Curry investigated these claims and realized that her critics had a point.

"Part of it was bad data. Part of it is natural climate variability," she told Stossel.

The journalist seemed pleasantly surprised about Curry's integrity and willingness to be corrected. "So you are the unusual researcher who looks at the criticism of your paper and actually concluded they had a point."

Curry said that the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, in which internal emails from research facilities showed that scientists were trying to hide controversial data, showed "a lot of really ugly things," like "avoiding Freedom of Information Act requests" and "trying to get journal editors fired from their job" if they disagreed with the mainstream "climate change" paradigm.

Stossel said the Climategate scandal made Curry realize that there is "a climate-change industry set up to reward alarmism"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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