Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin Summary
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Former Obama energy official challenges climate change certainty with Wall Street Journal bestseller. Can we trust prevailing narratives? Praised by scientific leaders yet sparking fierce debate, Koonin's award-winning analysis reveals what media headlines aren't telling you about our climate future.
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When "Settled Science" Isn't So Settled After All
A physicist who served in the Obama administration opens the hood on climate science and finds something unexpected: the research itself tells a different story than what we hear in headlines. The gap between scientific reports and public messaging isn't just wide-it's a chasm. Those definitive pronouncements about climate catastrophe? They often rest on shaky foundations of uncertainty, disagreeing models, and cherry-picked data. This isn't climate denial-it's something more unsettling. It's the revelation that we've been handed a simplified script when the actual science reads more like a mystery novel with missing chapters. Scientific research doesn't travel in a straight line from laboratory to living room. Instead, it passes through multiple filters, each simplifying and sometimes distorting the original message. Imagine a temperature measurement reported as 1.5C 0.3C in a research paper-that crucial uncertainty range often vanishes by the time it reaches your news feed. What remains is a single, definitive number that suggests false precision. The transformation happens in stages: detailed research papers become condensed assessment reports, which become executive summaries, which become press releases, which become tweets. At each step, nuance evaporates like morning dew. Understanding this disconnect matters because trillion-dollar policies and societal transformations hinge on getting the science right, not just getting it loud.
The Reality Behind Climate's Vital Signs and Measurements
Understanding Climate Terminology and Natural Patterns
The One Percent Problem and Carbon Cycle Complexities
When Climate Models Meet Messy Reality
Extreme Weather, Rising Seas, and the Evidence Gap
Finding Clarity in an Overheated Debate
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