Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check

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We tried to drill for abiogenic gas in Sweden from 1986 to 1992 based on the theories of Thomas Gold. His idea was to drill through the old impact crater Siljansringen. They found some hydrogen. Nothing nearly worth the effort.

As an ex-petroleum reservoir engineer just wanted to clarify. Petroleum (crude) comes from breakdown of primarily marine plankton and to lesser extent algae and bacteria. Coal comes from breakdown of plants/vegetation.

I beg to expand on something Sabine: "Groupthink" has been a problem for EVERY group in human existence... including sciences. It's philosophically intractable to have zero perspective anchors and still get things done. The harm comes when absolute conformity is a polar expectation.

Sabine, the issue is not that Al Jabers Statement was wrong, it's just entirely unhelpful until that "big if" is taken care of. It's like someone saying "The issue is not me throwing punches in the direction of peoples faces, the issue is that the punches then connect with the face". Technically true I guess, but instead of focusing our effort on creating face-blocking technology, how about that person just stops punching until we've figured it out? This is just another tactic of oil corporations to muddy the water and shift responsibility from the people creating/consuming fossil fuels over to scientists for not figuring out how to capture CO2 wherever it's created.

Noise is easy to generate and most folks don't know enough to distinguish noise from signal, so this is how we get led by the stupid.

Wait. Banana seats on bicycles aren't made from bananas?!!!

I passed by a large white truck the other day, sporting a big sticker stating that the vehicle was powered by dinosaurs. This is most likely in retaliation for the “powered by the sun” stickers that some EVs have on them around here. I’m sure the driver thought that it was not only a true statement, but very clever to put on a sticker. That being said, I was not the least bit surprised when also noticed a set of fake testicles swinging from the unattached trailer hitch.

Note: none of the major oil companies or even the minor ones, base their explorations for oil on the hypothesis of abiogenesis.

It’s a confusing world out there. So many voices speaking with confidence

Maybe he's confusing fossil fuels with dead Dinosaurs.

The words which come to mind are "distinction without a difference". It doesn't matter whether the carbon in question is a fossil or not, drilling it out of the ground and setting it on fire releases CO2, which is a heat trapping gas.

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. ~ Professor Albert Allen Bartlett (why climate change isn't our only big problem)

The "pretty big if" you mention is the whole problem. Fossil fuel industry says IF we can capture CO2, then no problem, so fossil fuels are fine, and credulous people say yes, that makes sense, and then nobody actually does anything to capture CO2 at scale because it's expensive and complicated and ruins the economic advantage fossil fuels have in the first place. It's perfectly reasonable at this point to call out CO2 capture for what it is: nonsense. It's not scientifically impossible but it's practically infeasible and that's all that matters in the end. "Enforcing a narrative" is hogwash, it's about the proven track record of fossil fuel companies blowing hot air and doing nothing else.

Willie Soon is one of the two authors of a study on climate that was so incredibly bad, that a scientific journal that published it ended up having to shut down.

Hi Sabine, it's not always physicists. I spoke with Geraint Lewis at our astronomy club monthly meeting last month, here in Sydney, and asked him how much time he spent in his public astronomy outreach just plain debunking mythology. His answer was "Far too much time. And most of the originators are retired engineers with wacky ideas." So it's not just your tribe - at least in Australia.

The problem is CREDIBILITY. 99.9% of know-it-alls (including in the comments here) lecturing others about climate change have ZERO inclination to give up the very products they claim are destroying humanity.

I prefer the term hydrocarbon to fossil fuel, because the usual meaning of fossil is the mineralization of bone. Maybe not precise, but the belief that oil comes from dead dinosaurs is pretty widespread, and mostly inaccurate.

"I don't give a shit what they think." 👏

They lie on purpose. When the court rules on the verdict, it assesses the social harm. How is it possible that those liars do giant social harm and receive no penalty? When you lie on purpose it's not freedom of speech.