Looking her up afterwards, it seems to me that this may also be her push for a significant position in the Trump administration. Seems that Judith Curry is the scientist who says "Well, they've revised the likely range so clearly they don't know what's likely and maybe it's too expensive to do anything right now."
I won't bother linking, a simple search based on her name will turn up a wide variety of links to her history, people bemoaning her stances, and people refuting some of the arguments she uses.