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Some of my recent material on the web

I’ve been out and about talking to diverse audiences about climate and energy. Here are a few of the recent videos and podcasts: Three wins in a trio of three debates against three different opponents at three different universities. A debate with Professor Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M about the…

Climate

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Climate

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Jul 30, 2022

Koonin-Dessler debate, Monday, August 15

UPDATE: A video of the debate is available on YouTube. On Monday, August 15, I will engage with Texas A&M Professor Andrew Dessler in an Oxford-style debate hosted by the SoHo Forum. We’ll debate the resolution “Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions”, Dessler taking the affirmative, and I the negative. Our separate back-to-back conversations with Joe Rogan this past winter (I here and Dessler here) show very different perspectives on climate and energy, so it should be an interesting debate.

Climate

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Koonin-Dessler debate, Monday, August 15
Koonin-Dessler debate, Monday, August 15
Climate

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Feb 1, 2022

Factchecking PolitiFact on Greenland’s Shrinking Ice

[A related Wall Street Journal OpEd is here.] A PolitiFact “fact check” written by Jon Greenberg has examined my statement Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago. and found it “mostly false.” Greenberg supports his finding by noting that “In the 1930s…

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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Oct 19, 2021

Responding to Vigdor and Londergan’s critique of Unsettled

Earlier this month, Steven Vigdor and Tim Londergan, two nuclear physicists who co-author the blog “Debunking Denial,” published a critique of my book Unsettled on their blog. As I say in Unsettled, I encourage informed and good-faith criticisms of what I’ve written. To that end, here I offer responses to…

Climate

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Responding to Vigdor and Londergan’s critique of Unsettled
Responding to Vigdor and Londergan’s critique of Unsettled
Climate

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Jun 3, 2021

My response to a Scientific American hit piece

[NB: Scientific American declined, without reason, to publish this response.] Scientific American has published a criticism of me and my recent book, Unsettled. Most of that article’s 1,000 words are scurrilous ad hominem and guilt-by-association aspersions from the twelve co-authors. …

Unsettled

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Unsettled

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May 16, 2021

A bad check of climate facts

This document is a detailed response to Climate Feedback’s “fact check” of Mark Mills’ Wall Street Journal review of my book, Unsettled. An OpEd published in the physical Journal on May 17, 2021 provides a high-level summary of the situation. There follows below a point-by-point response to Climate Feedback’s “fact…

Koonin

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Response to Climate Feedback’s “fact check” of Mark Mills’ Wall Street…
Response to Climate Feedback’s “fact check” of Mark Mills’ Wall Street…
Koonin

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