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Obama era expert "debunks" climate doomers + Kolbert talks California climate change

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An Obama era scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers (climate community)
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/an-obama-scie...m-mongers/

EXCERPT:
  • The warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years,” Steven E. Koonin] writes, according to the US government’s Climate Science Special Report.
  • “Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century,“ according to the 2014 National Climate Assessment.
  • “Since the middle of the twentieth century, the number of significant tornadoes hasn’t changed much at all, but the strongest storms have become less frequent,“ according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data (NOAA).
  • The rate of global sea-level rise 70 years ago was as large as what we observe today, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • Instead of droughts, “the past fifty years have been slightly wetter than average” in the United States, according to NOAA figures.
  • Rather than famine, “in the fifty years from 1961 to 2011, global yields of wheat, rice, and maize … each more than doubled,” according to the IPCC.
  • “The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.”
These facts come from Koonin’s new book “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” When he shares such information, he writes, “most are incredulous. Some gasp. And some get downright hostile.” Koonin — a physicist who worked on alternative energy for BP and as undersecretary for science in Obama Energy Department — has dug through those U.N. and US government reports to bring us some inconvenient truths. And he says the facts do not support the “doom mongering” of climate alarmists... (MORE - details)


Elizabeth Kolbert talks California climate change and ‘Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future’ (climate community)
https://www.pe.com/2021/05/15/elizabeth-...he-future/

EXCERPT: . . . Her most recent book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” is a sequel of sorts to “The Sixth Extinction.” It is, as she writes, “a book about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems.” In it, Kolbert travels extensively, exploring rivers, desert pools and coral reefs while getting to know some of the people looking for solutions to the world’s climate change and biodiversity crises.

This points to something that has changed since Kolbert’s early days of covering climate change. Back in the early 2000s, she spent a good amount of time reporting from the Arctic and she edited a book of writing on it. “It was always predicted that the Arctic would see the effects of climate change first and most dramatically. That has turned out to be true,” she says. However, the impact of climate change has spread further since then. “Now, I could go anywhere — that’s certainly true of California — and I would find very robust data that would show me how climate change is impacting the world right now.”

It’s not exactly the change people would want to see. That, Kolbert says, is perhaps one of the lesser-known stories of the past decade-and-a-half. “A lot of these impacts that were predicted for some time in the future, they’re coming faster and more dramatically, as a general rule, than climate scientists would have predicted 15 years ago,” she says.

[...] “I want people to be impressed by the severity of the problem and the scale of the problem, but it’s not really a viable option to give up and crawl under the bed,” says Kolbert. “So, I really do admire all of these people who are in the book, once again, trying their best.”

And, when it comes to tackling these human-made problems, all humans can do is try to alleviate them. “Whether it will work or not, we don’t know. They don’t know. That’s sort of part of the conditions right now,” says Kolbert. “We don’t even know whether it’s going to work or not, but we kind of have to try.” (MORE - details)
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