Bullshit
"The book — and Koonin’s views — have received favourable reviews in many quarters, lauded in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and the talk shows of Fox News. But the reception among the scientific community has been significantly rockier. He’s been accused of cherry-picking data, muddying the scientific waters and, simply, not having a CV of peer reviewed climate science work to burnish his credentials.
“It’s a little bit like if I, as a climate scientist or an atmospheric scientist, were to write a book about high-energy physics saying all the things I think is wrong with it, it’s just not very credible,” says
Don Wuebbles, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois who has been an author on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. “The same goes here. It’s full of major mistakes, it misrepresents the science.”
The conclusion Koonin leads readers to is that if the data is as sloppy as he believes it is, then policymakers should be waiting for more and better data before making decisions about how to confront climate change. In the book, he criticizes climate models in particular, saying they fail on a number of fronts, making it hard to make policy choices. But, Koonin tells the Post, they are making their “best effort at tackling what is an extraordinarily difficult challenge.”
“The models are useful, they’re interesting, but to be able to make societal decisions on that basis is really very difficult and it’s taking a lot of risk,” he says.
Gary Yohe, a professor of economics and environmental studies at Wesleyan University, said the “world is 15 years past” the idea we need more information to make better-informed decisions."
Koonin's conclusion is that if the data is as sloppy as he believes it is, then policymakers should be waiting for more and better data before making decisions
nationalpost.com
Gary Yohe is NOT a politician and knows a great deal more about climate than does Koonin.
With uninformed, out-of-date commentary.