Dr. Steven Koonin is a theoretical physicist, former Chief Scientist at BP, former Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, and is currently a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU. He is also the author of Unsettled, a book about the abilities and limits of climate science. We talk with him about the great distance between the scientific reports and public conception, the social unrest that's seeded by unwarranted fear of impending catastrophe, and the delicate art of speaking out against motivated consensus.

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00:00 Go!
00:08:34 Koonin's entry into the climate sciences
00:16:14 Not trying to save the world, just doing science
00:26:53 Cleaning the air & global warming
00:36:30 What affects sensitivity of the models
00:53:10 Better simulations later?
01:08:02 Economics v. taking care of the Earth
01:28:45 Values discussion v. facts?
01:31:53 Working skeptically for the Obama admin
01:42:43 Energy externalities
01:46:23 Nuclear alternatives
02:01:25 Fusion possibilities?
02:09:02 Nuclear as transition - shaping our future
02:15:36 Cost of progressive policy

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