[update. apparently the video I posted was a bootleg. I will be updating with official link when it becomes available – cr]
[Update 2 the official video has been released and we have a post with it here. It is also available on our videos page ~cr]
Monday, August 15, 2022
Resolution: Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
For the affirmative:
Andrew Dessler is a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of climate change. He is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and holder of the Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geosciences at Texas A&M University. His scientific research revolves around climate feedbacks, in particular how water vapor and clouds act to amplify warming from the carbon dioxide that humans emit. During the last year of the Clinton Administration, he served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Based on his research and policy experience, he has authored two books about climate change and one book about stratospheric ozone. His educational background includes a B.A. in physics from Rice University and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the energy group at The First Boston Corporation doing mergers and acquisitions analysis.
For the negative:
Steven Koonin is the author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters (2021). He joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences in September 2012. He is also Director of NYU’s new Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Professor Koonin was confirmed by the Senate in May 2009 as Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving in that position until November, 2011. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, he was BP’s Chief Scientist, where he was a strong advocate for research into renewable energies and alternate fuel sources. He came to BP in 2004 after almost three decades as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, serving as the Institute’s Vice President and Provost for the last nine years.
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Dessler: “China running coal less and less” and “phasing it [coal] out”. More fantasy. China are building new coal plants like there’s no tomorrow. More Dessler fantasy.
Dessler also thinks smog is the reason for ending coal. Fantasy. Scrubbing emissions is the established solution, whilst retaining the generation capacity.
Dessler: “Climate change is irreversible”! Fantasy!
Any idea where the video has gone ?
What’s happened to the video? I started watching it yesterday, but it’s been taken down
I had to go back and look at Dressler’s CV to see if this was a sham setup for Koonin. Shocked to see someone with his background had such poor technical backup for his position. Rolling Stone Magazine?
Dessler was clearly demonstrating complacency in his preparation and remarks. A great disservice for his cause.
com·pla·cen·cy | \ kəm-ˈplā-sᵊn(t)-sē
Replace ‘complacency’ with ‘incompetence’ and you might have something. It’s obvious that Dessler is completely out of his depth at this level and is only competent to teach high school, if that.
JCM, instead of your writing “A great disservice for his cause.” you should have said his cause is a great disservice to mankind.
Not surprisingly, the video seems to have “disappeared.” Anyone have a link?
Video now deleted. Also from YouTube.
Cancel culture in action. Koonin destroyed the narrative so they can’t allow the public to see it.
As so boringly expected, YouTube has removed the video. Or, have they? The error message says “removed by the uploader”. Perhaps TY “suggested” the removal. 🙄
Ah, it’s a bootleg! Maybe YouTube isn’t the villain in this case. (Pardon my typo in my initial post, I meant YT.)
I too am wondering where the video is? I hope WUWT will tell us. I don’t mind paying for it. I would have watched it live, but I wanted to be asleep. That should be possible, in these digital times.
The posting said it was taken down because it was a bootlegged copy.
I certainly hope that the video gets widespread distribution. Both an unedited version and a condensed version would be good.
As I had previously stated, Ben Shapiro has a production company that can make a presentation that the average lay person can understand and appreciate.
The video has been removed by the uplloaderat YouTube surprise surprise
So where is the demonstration project that shows us how this will all work and be cheaper?
Can we have a demonstration project, or a series of projects, from small to large to shows all how wind and solar are the answers? Pick a spot, or several spots, ramp up the wind and solar and shut off the organic fuels. do it for a year. At the end of the year we should all be asking to join the project if it is any good.
The video has already been taken down. I wonder why?
It was a bootleg…. See top of page.
Utilise other video platforms. Rumble, Odysee, and Bitchute are ones I regularly use instead of youtube if the yt channel owner has an account there. This will also give you insurance against yt targeting your channel for posting “wrongthink”.
A good summary of the debate
Report On Yesterday’s Soho Forum Climate Change Debate — Manhattan Contrarian
The video was removed by the Soho Forum. It’s not on their Youtube channel
Public debates of this sort were what Prof. Happer was hoping for under his Red Team proposal to Trump. If they’d occurred, the recent climate change funding bill might not have passed. But Trump chickened out–so the catastrophe is largely his fault. A Profile in Cowardice. NEVER TRUMP!
BTW, I hope Koonin follows up with a short videotape of his Afterthoughts–i.e., points he forgot to make in the debate, or didn’t have time to squeeze in. Along with a couple of improved slides. Hopefully in time for the official release.
A Profile in Cowardice. NEVER TRUMP!
Pence? Romney? Cheney? Who do you think would do better on this issue?
It would appear the Soho Forum is going to make their own link to the video in their ‘Past Events’ section. We’ll see.