The Accelerating Rate of Change

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There are enormous, at least at the regional level, enormous, long term fluctuations in the climate that can ask anything having to do with human influences. So we really don't know about the rapidity of warming and how unusual it is. And you can just imagine mediaeval egyptian i pc c saying, new normal. Now normal. We've got o pray and do some sacrifices and so on. It's different from historical trends that go up and down.

According to Steven Koonin, when it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” Koonin avers that the long game of telephone from research to reports, to the popular media, is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Koonin says that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. Koonin acknowledges that the climate is changing, and he claims the whyand how aren’t as clear as you’ve probably been led to believe, and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered.

In this engaging conversation Michael Shermer challenges Dr. Koonin with many of the most common critiques of his book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, and Steven Koonin responds by drawing upon his decades of experience — including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration.