Steven Koonin

American physicist at NYU — former Undersecretary for Science at the Department of Energy — former chief scientist at BP — author of Unsettled — who argues that the scientific case for climate alarm is more uncertain than public communication suggests.

Creates the most technically rigorous challenge to climate communication (not climate science) from within physics — Koonin's Unsettled argument (that scientific uncertainty is systematically suppressed in public climate discourse, even while the underlying science is valid) is the most credible version of the 'the science is more uncertain than the headlines' position.