Let’s start with a couple short informed observations of why Steven Koonin’s repetitive “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters”, is nonsensical claptrap.
There is no development of the arguments, no counter-points, no constructive back and forth, just the same arguments that they appear to have thought up once and never examined.
Personally, I like taking on smart criticisms. They help hone the science, clarify the arguments and point to areas of needed research. But there isn’t a single thing here worth taking on.
Director of GISS
Climate scientist Ben Santer, (with appropriate links added by myself):
“It is simply untrue that Prof. Koonin is confronting climate scientists with unpleasant facts they ignored or failed to understand.”
Dr. Ben Santer wrote in his resignation letter to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: “The climate science community treats uncertainties in an open and transparent way. It has done so for decades.
At LLNL, we routinely consider whether uncertainties in models, observations, and natural climatic variability call into question findings of a large human influence on global climate. They do not.”
My question: Why has Koonin rejected honesty, learning and self-skepticism, which are the foundations of serious science?
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Time to finally get “Steven Koonin’s liar for hire, a bibliographic collection” posted and behind me. I need to complete this, rather than simply blowing it off, because I’m driven by my utter incomprehension at the success of Koonin’s 2021 stale rerun of the same one dimensional anti-science rhetorical campaign strategy pioneered by the Father of Science By Slander, Fred Seitz back in the tobacco war days.
“Steven Koonin’s Liar for Hire, a Bibliographic Collection”
A Student Resource
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Steve Koonin Coasts On ‘09-’11 Obama Gig, Pens 'Unsettled,' a Pre-Re-Debunked Climate Denial Book
ClimateDenierRoundup for Climate Hawks and Kos, 2021,05,06
Five statements author Steven Koonin makes that do not comport with the evidence.
Marianne Lavelle, May 4, 2021, ClimateNews.org
Koonin’s case for yet another review of climate science
Gavin Schmidt @ 15 June 2019, RealClimate.org
EPA - Here's the Obama energy guy that Pruitt might hire
Robin Bravender, E&E News reporter, August 7, 2017, eenews.net
Climate Science Is Settled Enough - The Wall Street Journal’s fresh face of climate inaction.
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, slate.com/technology
A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date
Marianne Lavelle, May 4, 2021, InsideClimateNews.org
Steven Koonin to Step Down as DOE Science Honcho
Adrian ChoNov. 9, 2011, ScienceMag.org
Ben Santer: Climate Denialism has no place at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
Ben Santer, May 25, 2021, SkepticalScience.com and Union of Concerned Scientists
A critical review of Steven Koonin’s ‘Unsettled’
Mark Boslough, June 1, 2021, SkepticalScience.com and Yale Climate Connections
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