An ‘Unsettled’ Q&A: Why Mitch Daniels loves this author coming to Purdue; climate scientists … not so much

Steven Koonin’s ‘Unsettled,’ a best-selling take on climate change, has been picked apart by scientists as fodder for deniers and skeptics. He’ll be at Purdue Tuesday for a talk with Mitch Daniels

Steven Koonin (Photo provided)

Leading into Tuesday night’s installment of his Presidential Lecture Series, Purdue President Mitch Daniels made no bones about it last week: He’s a big fan of Steven Koonin.

In one of his periodic columns for The Washington Post, Daniels gushed about “Unsettled,” a 2021 best-seller from Koonin, a New York University profess…