Unsettled - Steven E. Koonin Audiobook
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“Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.”
“Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.”
“Climate change will be an economic disaster.”
You’ve heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.
When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions—about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be—remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren’t as clear as you’ve probably been led to believe.
Now, one of America’s most distinguished scientists is clearing away the fog to explain what science really says (and doesn’t say) about our changing climate. In Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, Steven Koonin draws upon his decades of experience—including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration—to provide up-to-date insights and expert perspective free from political agendas.
Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book gives readers the tools to both understand the climate issue and be savvier consumers of science media in general. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines to the more nuanced science itself, showing us where it comes from and guiding us through the implications of the evidence. He dispels popular myths and unveils little-known truths: despite a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures actually decreased from 1940 to 1970. What’s more, the models we use to predict the future aren’t able to accurately describe the climate of the past, suggesting they are deeply flawed.
Koonin also tackles society’s response to a changing climate, using data-driven analysis to explain why many proposed “solutions” would be ineffective, and discussing how alternatives like adaptation and, if necessary, geoengineering will ensure humanity continues to prosper. Unsettled is a reality check buoyed by hope, offering the truth about climate science that you aren’t getting elsewhere—what we know, what we don’t, and what it all means for our future.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
November 6th, 2021
these flat-earthers don’t give up LOL
November 6th, 2021
@schoollyd Not easily. If one looks at the survey of modeling from the ’70s to the present(Haufather 2020) the level of fidelity between even the early models and the observed temperature increases are astonishingly similar.
It should be pointed out that Koonin is not a climate scientist, and hence not an expert in this domain.
November 6th, 2021
For years I agreed that we didn’t have enough data to call any climate conclusion ’science.’ I still want more historic temperature data, but I also realize that, even with ice cores, there’s no real way to get better data. So… do I just deny the most likely conclusion forever because the data will never be perfect? The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
For the last ten years the state I live in has been on fire. The state I live in is not normally on fire. I do not enjoy my state being on fire. Or being scared that, this year, my house will burn down, along with my town. Nor do I find it credible that everything on the west part of the country being consistently on fire for the past decade is merely random happenstance. Nothing is impossible, but it seems highly unlikely.
Add in the fact that green energy, with increased solar panel efficiency and higher energy density batteries, is actually cheaper than fossil fuels (once we ramp up production,) I really don’t care what the science on climate is, switching over makes economic sense. Regardless of whether my state being constantly on fire is global warming or a random decade long fluke.
November 6th, 2021
Forward by Kyrie Irving.
November 7th, 2021
Surely one of the things that climate science tells us is that flying Joe Biden anywhere is a complete waste of resources and unnecessary pollution.
November 7th, 2021
No green tech is coming & no tech of any kind can save the humans because it’s too late
45 years ago 85% of all energy came from fossil fuels.
Today 85% of all energy comes from fossil fuels.
Solar & hydrogen fuel cells & electric cars are all 19th century tech - what are they/you waiting for?
You know who goes out of their way to make themselves look dumb? Political know nothing Americans who like to weigh in on topics they clearly know nothing about. In fact it’s obvious they lack fundamentals & could not pass 8th grade physics, chemistry & biology for a million bucks or to save their lives. Watching you people continue to embarrass yourselves is boring.
‘A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong
In Unsettled, Steven Koonin deploys that highly misleading label to falsely suggest that we don’t understand the risks well enough to take action’
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-book-manages-to-get-climate-science-badly-wrong/
All the action in the world won’t save you & yours.
Christ an I ever glad I never bred. No kids & grand kids to watch living in fear, suffer for years & die miserable deaths & not even make it to middle age. Don’t listen to me. Listen to the young people’s growing climate anxiety - not from a book or ‘al gore’ - because they are not in denial of the ever more frequent & destructive climate disasters & the ongoing biological Holocaust. Majorly reducing pollinator species populations and/or extincting them & millions of other necessary species is as big as an existential threat as climate change, but does not get the attention because Americans have not politicized it.
These 2 threats plus acidified & plasticized oceans guarantee this is the last century for the human race.
November 7th, 2021
@apnea
“No green tech is coming…”
Is too. I ordered my LiFePo4 26650 cells this week. I have a tracking number and everything. They’re totally coming. Or are you calling UPS a liar?
“These 2 threats plus acidified & plasticized oceans guarantee this is the last century for the human race.”
Really? Is that a money back guarantee if we’re not all completely satisfactorily dead? I only accept guarantees that promise my money back. Shows seller confidence in the quality of their products.
A minimal amount of research and study will demonstrate to you that none of the things you listed are likely to kill humanity within the next 100 years. They’re all terrible and they’re all problems, and they’ll all make life on this blue orb worse, and the human race certainly deserves to die as punishment for allowing them to happen, but none of them are effective extinction triggers.
For example, phytoplankton aren’t near their pH extremes yet, nor will they be within 100 years even assuming ocean acidification continues at its present (or even a moderately accelerated) rate. Further, we’ve looked at their adaptability and it appears that phytoplankton can adapt to changes in pH above their current survivable caps within 7 to 12 months, far faster than the ocean is acidifying. Therefore phytoplankton won’t die due to acidification and ocean O2 production will continue indefinitely, certainly far longer than the next 100 years.
Your other points are even easier to debunk as extinction triggers. And also easier to research. Which you encouraged others to do, or at least insulted others because you don’t think they’re doing that research. Perhaps more in-depth research might be informative.
Once you actually study these issues in depth, and by that I mean spending a bunch of time on Google Scholar, taking notes, talking to professionals in the various fields, reading worldwide agricultural reports, reading insurance reports relating to weather events and life insurance payouts, reading books like this and systematically debunking all their claims (for which data exists,) but continuing on to see what the most probable outcomes are if a worst case of the thing the book fails to debunk is true, once you do all that you will conclude that people will have a higher overall mortality, people will need to adapt, human population is likely to see a bit of a reduction due to a myriad of factors, but humans aren’t going to go extinct from this, at least not in the near term.
While you are less ill informed than most of the politicians who speak on this issue, what you are saying doesn’t fit any existing, or probable, trend-line. We certainly deserve to die as a species, but this won’t be what kills us.
That said. BRAH! C’mon brah! Don’t go promising extinction events that you’re not gonna provide! You’ll get people’s hopes up. Like promising a 5 year old girl a pony on her birthday but instead giving her braces. Not cool brah. Not cool at all. :(
November 7th, 2021
I didnt know Apnea was the new Greta. Thats some doom and gloom catastrophizing there. Dont get me wrong, this book is non-sense along with a few other books written by alleged scientist that try and throw doubt on ACG. We have alot of serious problems that will inevitably lead to alot more dead and a pretty bad situation for most of the rest. Will the human race die completely because of it, No. You may not be saying were only a couple years away, but your still exaggerating.
November 7th, 2021
Muh house might burn down. It must be da carbun.
LMAO
November 11th, 2021
The earth has a long history of ice ages, and climate changes. We’ve had several small ones in the last two thousand years. The important questions are, is man-made pollution responsible for any of it? How much of it is it responsible for? What can reasonably be done about it? And of course, most importantly, how can governments generate taxes from it?
July 24th, 2023
@apnea
lmao good one chief. hopelessness and doomerism. oh AND citing that god forsaken article, here is a response to it (and many others like it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0vWlLCmmI
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