#1776 - Steven E. Koonin

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Joe Rogan

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Steven E. Koonin is a theoretical physicist, professor, former Chief Scientist for the BP petroleum company, and former Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy under the Obama administration. He's also the author of "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan
0:05.0	Experience
0:06.0	Train by day Joe Rogan
0:08.0	all day.
0:10.0	Well, uh, thank you for being here.
0:15.0	I'm really appreciative of your time and the fact that you are willing to talk about this.
0:21.0	This is a very interesting book and extremely controversial.
0:27.2	And I'm not exactly sure why that is, but I think it's a part of the times we're living in.
0:33.0	How many cop, your book is called unsettled?
0:36.0	Correct.
0:37.0	How many, yes.
0:39.0	How many copies of this book?
0:40.0	So we've sold since it was published at the end of April. So about 10 months ago, we sold more
0:46.2	than 120,000 copies.
0:47.7	120,000 copies.
0:48.7	Which, you know, I don't know anything about publishing, but my agent and publisher are sort of amazed at the numbers.
0:54.4	That's a lot.
0:55.4	And without much fanfare from the media, if any.
0:59.0	Well, it depends which media you look at.
1:01.4	Where have you gotten coverage?
1:02.3	So I've gotten good coverage from the Wall Street
1:04.8	Journal, but if you look at the New York Times, Washington Post, not very good
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