Book Fave: Unsettled?
by Admin on Jun.16, 2021, under Book Faves, Do the Math
Steven E. Koonin
Subtitled: What climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters.
Excellent review of the status of “the science” on climate change. Should help calm minds prevail. Hardly an equation in it, but lots of graphs. He focuses on where public perception is very different from what science says, and why that’s happening. Here are a few provocative statements…
“Hurricanes show no sign of human influence.”
“Global warming won’t have much impact on the economy at least through the end of this century.”
“There’s no question the globe is warming. The real question is, what do humans have to do with that, and can it, or even should it, be mitigated.”
“Heatwaves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900.”
“The warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years.”
“Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago.”
