{"id":14228,"date":"2023-09-02T04:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T04:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2023-09-09T19:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T19:32:51","slug":"2023-09-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-09-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/295840645\/attendees\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/295691442\/attendees\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/295492625\/attendees\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/humanists.org_2023_09_03_koonin-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14232\"\/><figcaption>Steven Koonin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>A video about Hot or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and Methodology<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., September 3, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the Humanist Forum, in person OR on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video from Uncommon Knowledge from the Hoover Institution about &#8220;Hot or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and Methodology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this wide-ranging discussion, based in part on his 2021 book,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/search\/?isbn=9781950665792&amp;st=xl&amp;ac=qr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn&#8217;t, and Why It Matters,<\/a> Koonin gives a more refined look at the science behind the climate issue than the media typically offers, guiding us through the evidence and its implications. As Koonin explains in this interview, he was \u201cshaken by the realization that climate science was far less mature than I had supposed\u201d and that the \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d of catastrophic implications of anthropogenic global warming wasn\u2019t so overwhelming after all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can preview this 55-minute video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/hot-or-not-steven-koonin-questions-conventional-climate-science-and-methodology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/hot-or-not-steven-koonin-questions-conventional-climate-science-and-methodology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Zoom. 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This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video from Uncommon Knowledge from the Hoover Institution about &#8220;Hot or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-09-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hot or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and Methodology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14238,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions\/14238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}