Climate Change

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If you're going to de carbonize, it needs to be done thoughtfully and taking into account all the relevant elements. Nobody has written down a comprehensive plan like that. And i would think that that's the first thing anybody would want to see if they said, what's de callim right? Yes. So my attitude about that is that if it were feasible, it would be a last ditch a solution. But i'm in no way advocating for the deployment of that,. which would of course, require great international consensus to do that. In harder ready to get a consensus to reduce submissions.

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.