{"id":6748,"date":"2022-09-06T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:46:32","slug":"climate-and-covid-science%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/2022\/09\/06\/climate-and-covid-science%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate and COVID \u2018Science\u2019\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6748\" data-postid=\"6748\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6748 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_jtdu5 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_8xpb6 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_onhb6   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>(Source: American Institute for Economic Research)<\/p><p>Physicist and former CalTech provost Steven Koonin\u2019s superb 2021 book,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1950665798?psc=1&amp;ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details\"> <em>Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn\u2019t, and Why It Matters<\/em><\/a>, busts many popular myths about climate change. Koonin is clear that global temperatures are indeed rising, <em>and<\/em>that some of this rise in temperatures is caused by human activity. But Koonin warns \u2013 and he marshals much data to justify his warnings \u2013 that what we really know about the details behind and beyond these large facts about climate change, and about efforts to arrest it, is surprisingly tentative. Indeed, such knowledge is often so skimpy as to be non-existent.<\/p><p>Our relatively meager amount of knowledge about climate change, as well as about the likely consequences of different policies to deal with it, is surprising not because of any recent discoveries that cast new-found doubt on what was once legitimately believed to be ample knowledge. No, our relatively meager amount of knowledge about climate matters has always been meager, yet this \u2018meagerness\u2019 has been consistently ignored by prominent politicians, journalists, and other \u2018elite\u2019 molders of public opinion.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module buttons -->\n<div  class=\"module module-buttons tb_8d9j7 buttons-horizontal solid \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"module-buttons-item tf_in_flx\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/climate-and-covid-science\/\" class=\"ui builder_button tf_in_flx red\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                                                Read Full Story                                        <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<!-- \/module buttons -->\n<!-- module social share -->\n<div  class=\"module module-social-share tb_41w97  tb_ss_size_normal tb_ss_shape_none\" data-lazy=\"1\" data-title=\"\" data-url=\"\">\n        <div class=\"module-social-share-wrapper\">\n                                            <div class=\"ss_anchor_wrap tf_inline_b\">\n                        <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"facebook\">\n                            <em class=\"tb_social_share_icon\"><svg  aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"tf_fa tf-ti-facebook\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-facebook\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em>\n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"ss_anchor_wrap tf_inline_b\">\n                        <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"twitter\">\n                            <em class=\"tb_social_share_icon\"><svg  aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"tf_fa tf-fab-x-twitter\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-fab-x-twitter\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em>\n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"ss_anchor_wrap tf_inline_b\">\n                        <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"pinterest\">\n                            <em class=\"tb_social_share_icon\"><svg  aria-label=\"Pinterest\" class=\"tf_fa tf-ti-pinterest\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-pinterest\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em>\n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"ss_anchor_wrap tf_inline_b\">\n                        <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"email\">\n                            <em class=\"tb_social_share_icon\"><svg  aria-label=\"Email\" class=\"tf_fa tf-ti-email\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-email\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em>\n                                                    <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module social share -->\n        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: American Institute for Economic Research)Physicist and former CalTech provost Steven Koonin\u2019s superb 2021 book, Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn\u2019t, and Why It Matters, busts many popular myths about climate change. Koonin is clear that global temperatures are indeed rising, andthat some of this rise in temperatures is caused by human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-planet-earth-and-beyond","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<p>(Source: American Institute for Economic Research)<\/p><p>Physicist and former CalTech provost Steven Koonin\u2019s superb 2021 book,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1950665798?psc=1&amp;ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details\"> <em>Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn\u2019t, and Why It Matters<\/em><\/a>, busts many popular myths about climate change. Koonin is clear that global temperatures are indeed rising, <em>and<\/em>that some of this rise in temperatures is caused by human activity. But Koonin warns \u2013 and he marshals much data to justify his warnings \u2013 that what we really know about the details behind and beyond these large facts about climate change, and about efforts to arrest it, is surprisingly tentative. Indeed, such knowledge is often so skimpy as to be non-existent.<\/p><p>Our relatively meager amount of knowledge about climate change, as well as about the likely consequences of different policies to deal with it, is surprising not because of any recent discoveries that cast new-found doubt on what was once legitimately believed to be ample knowledge. No, our relatively meager amount of knowledge about climate matters has always been meager, yet this \u2018meagerness\u2019 has been consistently ignored by prominent politicians, journalists, and other \u2018elite\u2019 molders of public opinion.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/climate-and-covid-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Read Full Story <\/a>\n<a href=\"#\" data-type=\"facebook\"> <em><svg aria-label=\"Facebook\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-facebook\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em> <\/a> <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"twitter\"> <em><svg aria-label=\"Twitter\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-fab-x-twitter\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em> <\/a> <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"pinterest\"> <em><svg aria-label=\"Pinterest\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-pinterest\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em> <\/a> <a href=\"#\" data-type=\"email\"> <em><svg aria-label=\"Email\" role=\"img\"><use href=\"#tf-ti-email\"><\/use><\/svg><\/em> <\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandglobalnewslinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}