Top Climate Scientist: The Science Isn't Settled

And not only that: we are very far indeed from having enough knowledge to make any good public policy in response to Global Warming.

by Rod D. Martin
September 19, 2014

I have said repeatedly that I have an open mind on the issues pertaining to Global Warming:  my problem is with the blatant dishonesty of AGW proponents and their not-hidden socialist agenda.

So along comes Steven E. Koonin in The Wall Street Journal's Saturday Essay.  Koonin is no "crazed right-wing climate denier."  Quite the contrary.  He's a former Obama Administration Undersecretary for Science at the Department of Energy. Currently he's Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU. He used to be professor of theoretical physics and provost at Caltech.

His message?  Not only is climate science not "settled," but we are very far indeed from having enough knowledge to make any good public policy in response to Global Warming.

Remember:  this guy is a Global Warming true believer. So his rejection of the idea of "climate deniers" is particularly interesting, even if he weren't an Obama guy.

But the real points are far more important.  If…