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Re:Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change... by swader999 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:45PM (#27988803)
Steve Koonin, one of Obama's former climate experts, does a great job of discussing the fatal flaws in his recent book "Unsettled".

You can also look at the IPCC reports themselves where they admit to model "limitations". Also note the confidence level their far out proclaimations are made with. It is typically "moderate" or "low". The news pieces rarely make mention of this confidence level though.

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Re:Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change... by lovecg on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:11PM (#27990425)
As far as I can tell he served as Under Secretary of Energy for Science and has zero climate science background. I’m not sure it’s accurate to call him a “climate expert”.

There are plenty of articles debunking his points as outdated strawman arguments, e.g. https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-a...

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