Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin: Conversation Starters
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Climate is a topic everyone in the world should participate in, regardless of nationality, race, and disposition. In Unsettled: What the Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, physicist Steven E. Koonin introduces readers to the truths about the science behind our changing climate and how society should respond to its revelations. Taking into account the data from various graphs based on variables collected over a span of centuries, coupled with the limitations of current climate models, Koonin shares another perspective in the decades-long debate on whether humans have little or more to do with the fragile state of the Earth’s climate.
A Wall Street Journal bestseller, Unsettled ranks first in Climatology, Rivers in Earth Science, and Weather charts on Amazon, with an almost perfect score of 4.8 out of 5, based on 477 global ratings.
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Introducing Unsettled
Steven E. Koonin divides the Unsettled: What the Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters into two parts, with fourteen chapters in total. He starts with the introduction that scientists are committed to absolute intellectual integrity, as he learned from Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. However, this is not exactly what’s happening with the sciences that need to be communicated with the public, like climate science–or what Koonin refers to as The Science.
Because it strikes at the core of human existence, the issue understandably invokes strong passion and emotions. This can be explained in the words of Stephen Schneider, a prominent climate researcher, who states that scientists are in a constant double ethical bind,
between being effective and being honest in sharing climate information. The dark side to this, however, is the misrepresentation, distortion, and mischaracterization of The Science.
Contrary to popular belief, human activities have an insignificant effect on climate. Koonin cites graphs containing various global temperature anomalies over a period of hundreds of years, which shows that even before humans existed, global warming has been undergoing many trends. He wants everyone to look at data from long-term trends instead of the noise of short-term variations. In doing so, the big picture crucial in understanding and comprehending climate can be painted. The past variations of surface temperature and ocean heat content show that the temperature increase is not due to humans. Instead of asking whether the world has warmed recently, Koonin wants to know the extent of the effect of human activities on the continual rise of global temperature. He also suggests removing the term climate change,
and use a changing climate
instead. According to him, the former promotes a confusion of meaning since it fails to account for changes due to natural