Last month saw the release of the book Unsettled, by Steve Koonin. This video is not a review of the book. Instead, it is a discussion of the high temperature public spat over the book’s launch, drawing in a group of climate scientists and Koonin himself in a rather extraordinary exchange. That exchange both challenges Koonin’s framing of the issues, while also demonstrating some of the bad behaviour that is arguably Koonin’s most legitimate target. It’s messy, it’s scrappy, and it’s rather important. Let’s have a look.
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Koonin interview on CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/05/04/physicist-challenges-conventional-wisdom-of-climate-change-impact.html A new book manages to get climate science badly wrong, Scientific American
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22838-1 Wall Street Journal article repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims made in Steven Koonin’s new book ’Unsettled’
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2021/04/30/lets-work-for-science-with-integrity-steve-koonins-new-book-unsettled/?sh=3bbbffa92f38...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskcqzRPqoc