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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.
Firefighters are battling a fast-spreading brush fire in the Pacific Palisades area, dousing the blaze mostly from the air because of steep terrain within a remote canyon. Evacuations have been ordered.