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}}</ref>, Michael Lemonick reports (pers. comm.) that he asked Curry about potential conflicts of interest, and she responded,
:"I do receive some funding from the fossil fuel industry. Mycompany...does [short-term] hurricane forecasting...for an oil company, since 2007.During this period I have been both a strong advocate for the IPCC, andmore recently a critic of the IPCC, there is no correlation of this fundingwith my public statements."
====Curry to SourceWatch: full extent of fossil fuel ties====
Curry has clarified that this is the ''full extent'' of her ties to fossil fuel interests, and that she has no ties to organizations or individuals with an interest in delaying climate action, or to organizations working on behalf of such interests such as PR firms and science-for-hire firms like [[New Hope Environmental Services]], or subcontractors of such firms.