The shameless attack on a climate change dissenter

We couldn’t find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin’s ’Unsettled’ that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately. ---------------------- In 2021, the physicist and NYU Professor Steven E. Koonin, who served as Undersecretary for Science in the Obama administration’s Energy Department, published the bestselling ’Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.’ The book attracted extremely negative reviews filled with ad hominem attacks, such as a short statement appearing in Scientific American signed by 12 academics, that instead of substantively rebutting Koonin’s arguments, calls him “a crank who’s only taken seriously by far-right disinformation peddlers hungry for anything they can use to score political points“ and “just another denier trying to sell a book.“ Wh