Facebook’s “fact checkers” are “no better than trolls who pan political adversaries’ books on Amazon without bothering to read them,” writes physicist Steven E. Koonin in a stinging op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. | Tech
Here are a few climate facts that John F. Kerry failed to mention in his recent testimony, marshaled by one of the Obama administration’s top scientists, Steven E. Koonin.
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Unsettled, Steven Koonin deploys that highly misleading label to falsely suggest that we don’t understand the risks well enough to take action
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Steven Koonin, a former undersecretary for science of the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, but more recently considered for an advisory post to Scott Pruitt when he was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has published a new book. Released on May 4 and entitled
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, its major theme is that the science about the Earth’s climate is anything but settled. He argues that pundits and politicians and most of the population who feel otherwise are victims of what he has publicly called “consensus science.”
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Scientists want to spread dust in the upper atmosphere to see if it will stop climate change.
The idea is to dump calcium carbonate, basically chalk dust, into the stratosphere to block some of the sun s rays with the hope of halting the climate from warming.
It s called Stratospheric Aerosol Injection or SAI.
The media calls it Bill Gates idea, but Gates is only one of many people funding the research and it isn t his idea, it s Harvard s.
The test launch for the project next month in Sweden was canceled after people complained. But there s likely to be another test in the future because some scientists think this could work, while others say it s a very bad idea.