Dear Sabina Hossenfelder,
I’ve been watching your YouTube videos for a while and for the most part, I enjoy them, because I love the topics, your informative sharp style, and you were refreshingly free of red flags. As I became a fan, I’ll admit I got some weird vicarious kick at discovering you were born in Frankfurt am Main during the time I was living there, during my 3 years in BRD & CH.
Then you started talking about climate scientists, people I’ve enthusiastically followed and learned from since my high school science classes (grad of ’73), and a topic I have closely followed for over a half century since. Now, listening to you harp on climate scientists, I do see red flags cropping up, which I feel obligated to share as far and wide as my meager efforts will afford, via an email and posting at my blogs.
Your July 20th, “Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check” brought my feelings to a boil. Now I want to do a little fact checking of your attitude and words, along with their unfortunate implications, in a society where determined willful ignorance runs rampant.
Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check
Sabine Hossenfelder - July 20, 2024
5:44
“The world is full of untruth and half truth, right that's the whole problem right.”
8:14
"… Dr. Soon then goes on to complain about how climate scientists reacted to the opening statement from Al Jaber at the COP meeting earlier this year.
In the beginning of this cop 28 meeting, the chairman, … was saying that ‘there's no scientific reasoning to say that we should phase out fossil fuels.’ “
“He’s right. But then he backed off because of all this, baa-baa. …”
“There's no scientific reasoning to say that we should phase out fossil fuel.”
This isn’t an academic argument. This is the stuff of rhetorical gamesmanship.
No parameters, no nuances. Give it a think Sabina.