Climate Change works better in practice than in theory

David Wineberg
The Straight Dope
Published in
7 min readJan 26, 2021

--

At long last, here is a climate change analysis that credibly challenges the generally-accepted hysteria with facts, replicable criticisms, and a basis of solid scientific discipline. Steven Koonin was Undersecretary for Science in the Energy Department during the Obama Administration, and a 15 year climate scientist who has worked for Big Oil and numerous scientific organizations. His book Unsettled, collects his thoughts from that period, as well as the many challenges he has made to “The Science” of climate fear-mongering.

His objections fall into two broad buckets: while there is real evidence of man’s contribution to pollution, there is no evidence the climate is changing directly because of it. And at the same time, the claims presented by scientists is not merely faulty, they often fly in the face of the very evidence they provide. All in all, it’s a bizarre, if not bogus way to run science. It bothers him no end when science is used “to persuade rather than to inform.”

With those focuses in mind, Koonin attacks various climate change aspects, from hurricanes to sea levels, to carbon dioxide. In every case, he finds science has been misrepresented, and the role of Man exaggerated if not unproven.

--

--

David Wineberg
The Straight Dope

Author, The Straight Dope, or What I learned from my first thousand nonfiction reviews. 16 Essays. Free with Prime www.thestraightdope.net