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[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

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

flowey-smug it says it right there: man influenced climate change!

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Svante Arrhenius figured this shit out in 1898

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This woman went from funny science youtube to absolute yikes-1 yikes-2 yikes-3

[–] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] yewler@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I adore this channel.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

angela rocks!

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

This woman keeps getting worse with each post

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Black Santa?! In my South! sicko-hexbear-woke

[–] ValpoYAFF@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

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 the-podcast in the gulag for you

[–] Annakah38@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disliked her for promoting super determinism. It's a real theory, but a frankly ridiculous one.

Now I can dislike her for promoting capitalism too.

[–] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She also had some awful takes on trans people and autistic people too

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

My heckin' exxon mobile is just a smol innocent bean pls no bully

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

someone needs ludovigo technique, but with the-podcast

dipshit

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Trust in science

the science:

germany-cool

[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Exxon literally knew since the fucking 70s and that didn’t stop them from paying for fake studies and propaganda campaigns against climate change activists

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is going to be cosmic horror isn't it?

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

i don't wanna

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Imagine being so fucking shameless and immoral that you go absolutely against all the scientific data despite being a scientist during a world changing crisis. She is 100% getting paid for this directly or indirectly from the oil industry.

Add her to the list of people to send to live in the worst affected coastal region in 50 years barbara-pit

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sabine has some good takes and highly dubious takes, watch with a pinch of salt. And bullshit, they knew then; hell, they know now and they're still fighting climate change action tooth and nail.

[–] heatenconsumerist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I followed her channel for quite a while before I noticed her veering to the right to "burn the poors for big oil."

Her takes on dark matter also seem...off to me. Idk how to place it w/o a background in the subject though.

[–] kot@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

She's a failed academic who switched careers to youtube grifting, so yeah she's probably wrong about everything physics-related.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

SMDH my dick head, they got Sabine with the CIA YouTube clickbait title gun. And the CIA shitty takes gun set to three-round burst mode, multiple times now. They're using her for target practice at this point.