Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
by Steven E. Koonin

BenBella Books (April 27, 2021) (320 pages)

Writing this book has been an opportunity to collect and synthesize experiences over a fifteen-year journey in climate and energy…


But I’ve been dismayed along the way as well. First by the willingness of some climate scientists-abetted by the media and politicians-to misrepresent what the science says, and then by the many other scientists who are silently complicit in those misrepresentations. The public deserves better. By demonstrably misinforming non-experts about what we know and don’t know about the changing climate, they deny governments, industry, and individuals the right to make fully informed decisions about how to respond.


What I think we should do, in short, is to begin by restoring integrity to the way science informs society’s decision on climate and energy-we need to move from The Science back to science.