“It’s a fiction of the media,” he said. “And the politicians who like to promote that notion.”
According to data from the U.S. government, Koonin explained, there are “no detectable human influences” on natural disasters like hurricanes for more than a century, and today’s heatwaves in the U.S. are just as common as they were back in 1900.
“The warmest temperatures have not gone up in the last 60 years,” he noted.
The physicist pointed out that politicians love to throw around the term “existential threat” when it comes to the topic of climate, but he argued that government officials like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are unqualified to raise the issue to such an extreme.
“I don’t think the science says what… Secretary Pete thinks it says,” he said. “In fact, I can guarantee you he’s never read the science....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
