Steven Koonin: Stop POLITICIZING Climate Science! (#344)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Is climate science being politicized? Are facts being misrepresented and distorted to fit a certain narrative? Are climate scientists trying to dictate policy instead of investigating the actual truth? And what does it mean to be accused of being a global warming denier? Here today to discuss this controversial topic with me is no other than Steven Koonin! Steven is a renowned theoretical physicist and has recently been working on urban studies and government policies. He has also published a very provocative book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters. The book caused a lot of controversy as it challenged the dominant narrative on global warming, and today, he is here to state his case! 📚 Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin: https://a.co/d/7nEMiol Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 Support The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Post your free listing at LinkedIn Jobs https://www.linkedin.com/impossible Thanks HelloFresh! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus free shipping! As an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off a MASTERCLASS annual membership masterclass.com/impossible Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is our planet reaching the point of no return?
0:02.9	With global temperatures rising and natural disasters intensifying,
0:06.8	this question is becoming ever more relevant. But is this question also being politicized?
0:12.3	Dr Stephen Kuhnen is a theoretical physics professor and
0:15.6	former undersecretary for science. In recent years he's been criticized for his stance on climate
0:21.1	change and effort to separate the politics from the science.
0:24.5	Join us to hear his take on what climate science tells us what it doesn't and why that matters. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:40.4	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:44.0	Welcome everybody to another exciting edition of the Into the Impossible Podcast.
0:48.0	It is I, your formerly fearful host, Dr. Brian Keating joined with a very, very special guest today, all the way from New York City.
0:55.9	It is Stephen Kuhnen, a renowned physicist, and more recently involved in government policy and also urban studies of a kind and we're going to get
1:04.4	into all that. Welcome to La Hoya.
1:06.4	Great to be here, Brian, and chatting with you.
1:08.3	We have so many things to talk about today.
1:10.3	We're going to talk about your wonderful book which is provocative which is
1:14.2	controversial which is technical and chock full of information we've had on many
1:20.0	many climate scientists and those who are interested in climate change just
1:26.1	from a human perspective we recently had on Kim Stanley Robinson
1:29.5	who's written many books about this who's an alum of you see as it turns out and we had on
1:34.8	Tim Palmer last year who shared the Nobel Prize I believe back in way back in
1:41.0	the mid 2000s along with Al Gore.
1:44.0	And I think maybe we'll start with the book as we often do because when you see a book
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