Steven E. Koonin

Steven E. Koonin is a theoretical physicist and former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy under the Obama administration. He has been a proponent of public debates on climate science and has authored the book 'Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.' Recently, he was appointed as a 'special government employee' in the Trump administration's Department of Energy, a move that aligns with the administration's controversial stance on climate science.