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Sabine Karin Doris Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976)

In July 1977, a senior scientist of Exxon, James Black reported to the company’s executives that there was a general scientific agreement at that time that the burning of fossil fuels was the most likely manner in which mankind was influencing global climate change.

Exxon’s research confirming the existence of manmade climate change is almost as old as you are.

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fossil fuels was the most likely manner in which mankind was influencing global climate change.

it says it right there: man influenced climate change!

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Ive seen articles from the early 20th c detailing a rudimentary understanding of greenhouse effects from carbon dioxide lol

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Svante Arrhenius figured this shit out in 1898

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This woman went from funny science youtube to absolute

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Fortunately there’s a new funny science youtube who also seems to have at least decent if not verging on pretty good politics.

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angela rocks!

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I adore this channel.

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Isn’t her main science take that MOND is the only sensible theory of dark matter?

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No idea, I didn’t see this one

However I remember her making a whole video about being skeptical of nuclear fusion, which made sense for me at the time except now we’re seeing so much progress in that field I’m wondering if she could be also wrong about this lol

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From when I still watched her, Superdeterminism seemed to be her thing. Its a non-theory, totally unprovable. I don’t think she’s a MOND believer, could be wrong though but either way she’s not a cosmologist.

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thanks this is the silliest thing I’ve seen passed for science in recent memory

This specific theory would be irrelevant materially too, correct? Because you wouldn’t be able to detect what the universe “knows” without woo woo magic. In fact wouldn’t the end result just be some sort of other explanation but with “works due to natural laws” replaced with “a physics wizard did it”?

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She is truly awful, her take in her own field is extremely dumb but it’s her takes in other fields that are even worse. Like a lot of science YouTubers she doesn’t stay in her lane, she thinks the fact someone gave her a phd for her ridiculous idea of superdeterminism gives her license to opine about other field she knows fuck all about.

If you can find any video of hers from a field you have first hand knowledge about her takes are wrong, and not just wrong, but that special kind of wrong where you completely misunderstand the basics of something and then extrapolate out from there the stupidest fucking conclusions imaginable.

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This woman keeps getting worse with each post

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Next video probably going to be about how CRT is “scientificly” ruining Christmas.

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Black Santa?! In my South!

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Watch the video. The headline claim is that oil companies would never have stopped selling oil and the public would never have stopped buying it no matter how much information was out there - it does not actually deny that oil companies knew about climate change very early on. Less than a minute into the video Sabine starts blaming oil companies for climate change denial misinformation. It’s just a clickbait title.

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The headline claim is that oil companies would never have stopped selling oil and the public would never have stopped buying it no matter

the public would never have stopped buying

no matter how much information was out there

clickbait title.

thirty episodes of for you

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but isn’t blaming oil companies for misinformation a far less strong accusation if you preface it by saying that publicly available information just doesn’t matter in this case?

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