With a list of qualifications too long to include, Koonin served as Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Dept of Energy, under President Obama.

Professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, 200+ peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics and astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and climate science (not that I believe peer-review counts for much any more).

But those achievements counted for little when he published “Unsettled, what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters”. The climate ‘gangsters' took to him with a viciousness that has become common.

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