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‘Unsettled’: A Top Obama Scientist Becomes a Climate Truth Teller | The American Spectator

Steven Koonin reclaims the science of climate crisis from the propaganda peddlers.

Physicist Steven Koonin kicks the hornet’s nest right out of the gate in “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters.” In the book’s first sentences he asserts that “the Science” about our planet’s climate is anything but “settled.”

Dr. Koonin points out scientific facts supported by hard data and peer-reviewed literature that stand against the reigning climate change narrative: Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century; Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago; tornado frequency and severity is not trending up; the number and severity of droughts is not rising over time; the extent of global fires has been trending significantly downward; the rate of sea-level rise has not accelerated; global crop yields are rising, not falling; and the models on which approximately all public policy proposals are based are fatally flawed.

Indeed, one of the most surprising and important lessons of Unsettled is that many claims made by the media, politicians, and “scientists,” usually of the left, based on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are not made in the reports themselves or are views or conclusions that the studies explicitly say are held with “low confidence.” Yet the alarmists nevertheless contort these reports to tell us that we’re all going to die unless we bankrupt our children, make fuel unaffordable, transfer billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to Africa and Asia in pursuit of “climate justice,” stop driving cars, and otherwise eliminate the very things that have made modern human life the safest and most comfortable it’s ever been.

It’s important to know a little about Dr. Koonin: CalTech undergrad, MIT Ph.D. in theoretical physics. CalTech professor of theoretical physics and university provost. Author of more than 200 academic papers. Chief scientist at BP focusing on alternative and renewable energy. Undersecretary of Energy for Science in the Obama administration. Currently teaching at NYU. In other words, this guy is 1) the real deal and 2) not a conservative or a “denier.”

Throughout Unsettled, you’ll become unsettled at the brazenness of the lies and misdirection used by those who support the Green New Deal, carbon taxes, painting your roof white, eliminating meat from our diets, forcing you to ride a bike to work, take public transportation, and on and on and on. Almost everything you’ve been told by the mainstream media, including by “scientists,” is either intentionally or unintentionally erroneous, leading politicians to support policies that not only won’t help us today but will cause tremendous damage to future American generations’ standard of living and economic opportunities. Of course, what most climate-obsessed politicians really care about isn’t climate or our children’s futures. It’s control.

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The American Spectator

The Unsettling Truth About Climate Science and Politics

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters Dr. Steven Koonin (BenBella Books, 240 pages, $25)

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