Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Instead of Protesting, Climate Marchers Should Read This

Instead of Protesting, Climate Marchers Should Read This:
"World leaders will gather for the United Nations climate summit this week after tens of thousands of protestors marched through Manhattan on Sunday urging action on climate change.
Their time would have been better spent reading Steven Koonin’s Wall Street Journal piece, “Climate Science is Not Settled.”
Before you go labeling Koonin a climate denier, check out his resume.
He served as the undersecretary of science for the Department of Energy during President Obama’s first term.
He’s a theoretical physicist and the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.
And his message is clear and straightforward:
Yes, the climate is changing as it always has. 
But the science is far from settled, and there’s great uncertainty into all that goes into a changing climate. 
Climate models have serious limitations, and we’re nowhere near understanding variations in the climate enough to make sound policy decisions.
Yet the administration is forging ahead with regulations on conventional fuels that will drive up energy costs for American households and businesses."

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