Physics Today uncritically reports on Koonin’s WSJ piece.
This really should be a strike below the waterline of the “consensus.” It’s nice to see that APS has come to its senses.
Meanwhile, there was an extraordinary meeting in Bath. I’d have liked to have been there.
Yeah, Koonin is very respected; it’s going to be hard to ignore or slime him. That said, I don’t know that the APS is moving. Eli Rabbett has been spreading rumors that Koonin resigned from the committee because it wouldn’t do what he thought should be done. We’ll see. Pass the popcorn.
Footnoted version of his article, from his website.
http://cusp.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Climate-article-annotated1.pdf
Freeman Dyson should have been the strike below the waterline. A hockey stick produced with pink noise should have been a strike below the waterline.
And they would be, if this was actually about science, rather than about power to control others.
The WSJ identifies Koonin as
* President Obama’s former Energy Department undersecretary for science,
* director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University,
* a past professor of theoretical physics and provost at Caltech, and
* a past chief scientist for BP, “where his work focused on renewable and low-carbon energy technologies.”
See! See! He’s tainted by working for an oil company! Everything he says (that we disagree with) can thus be disregarded and he can be ruined!
You joke, but that is precisely the tack the true denialists are taking.
That even happened when Koonin’s article first was mentioned here.