Petition updateSave our #JerseyShore! Stop the industrial wind farms off the coast of the United States!We need to be changing the energy system by slow steady pressure, rather than by drastic measures
Save Our Shoreline New Jersey #JerseyShore Stop the wind farms off the coast of NJ #WindFarmNJ, United States
Sep 16, 2021

Too much, too soon, too fast is how many reasonable people describe the unhinged irrational rush to remake our energy infrastructure with unreliable unnecessary industrial offshore wind.

And this man, Steven Koonin, agrees.

Koonin, a physicist, professor and served as undersecretary for science in the Department of Energy during the Obama administration, "starts from the position that yes, climate change is real, and then, over the course of his book, ‘Unsettled: What climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters,’ systematically attempts to explain why, even so, much of what you know about it is wrong."

"We need to be changing the energy system by slow steady pressure, rather than by drastic measures."

"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."

"Koonin, for his part, says the best risk management strategy is to allow the global temperature to rise while continuing to develop more and newer technology. As the technology would allow, he argues, then you can come down harder on decarbonization.

“We need to be changing the energy system by slow steady pressure, rather than by drastic measures. I like to say by orthodonture rather than tooth extraction,” says Koonin.

In order to make that case, he argues that the economic damages of climate change are likely to be minimal, at least in terms of GDP; citing an older UN report on climate change, Koonin writes “the economic impact of human-induced climate change is negligible, at most a bump in the road.”

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