Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin
Commentary
On Jan. 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade global warming and three climate scientists who dispute it, moderated by a team of six leading physicists from the American Physical Society (APS) led by Dr. Steven Koonin, a theoretical physicist at New York University. The debate (pdf), hosted by the APS, revealed consensus-supporting climate scientists harboring doubts and uncertainties and admitting to holes in climate science in marked contrast to the emphatic messaging of bodies such as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Satellite view of Hurricane Dorian off the east coast of Florida, September 3, 2019.
(NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East/Handout via Reuters) What do the research literature and government reports actually say about human-induced climate change and its consequences?
Editor’s Note:
The following are extracts from Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin.
The first two, which are brief, are from the introduction. One sets out the basic thesis of the book, and the other is a summary of Koonin’s background. The third, which is lengthier and lightly edited, comes from a chapter entitled “Apocalypses That Ain’t,” wherein Koonin discusses climate change’s effect on the economy.
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GCA Chief: We Are ‘Utterly Unprepared’ for the Climate Emergency
19 May 2021
The CEO of the Global Center for Adaptation (GCA) contends that “climate disasters have doubled” during the last 20 years, CNBC reported Wednesday.
Patrick Verkooijen, who runs the GCA, which describes itself as a “solutions broker to accelerate, innovate and scale adaptation action for a climate-resilient world,” told CNBC the coronavirus pandemic had been a “wake-up call” for the world.
“We are utterly unprepared for the next crisis, the climate emergency,” Verkooijen said, adding that “90% of all natural disasters are water related, more floods, more droughts, more storms, more fires.”