Steven Koonin – Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Steven’s best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

2:38 Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief”

9:43 The complexities of climate change models

15:07 Should we worry about rising sea levels?

24:54 Hurricanes, tornados, and other extreme weather events

29:59 Is a zero-emissions goal worth the cost?

38:05 How to fix climate science

45:02 Are the Paris Accords viable?

48:13 The coming climate backlash

Recorded January 3, 2023

Links and Readings

Steven’s book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

Steven’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Will Climate Change Really Put New York Underwater?”

Steven’s 2022 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Greenland’s Melting Ice Is No Cause for Climate-Change Panic”

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0:40.1	Hi, this is Glendlaury.
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0:48.6	The Glendshow is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where I am the
0:53.5	John Paulson Senior Fellow, and I'm talking with Stephen Koonan, who's a theoretical
0:59.1	physicist.
1:00.1	Are you still at NYU, Stephen?
1:02.6	I am.
1:03.6	I'm still a professor at NYU and I teach regularly.
1:08.4	Stephen is a former Undersecretary of the Department of Energy under President Obama and
1:13.4	author of the book Unseveled.
1:16.0	What climate science tells us, what it does not and why it matters.
1:20.6	So that's what we're talking about here today.
1:23.3	Welcome, Stephen.
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