I thought I understood how carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming. Turned out I got it completely wrong. I was about to sweep my misunderstanding under the carpet. But then I thought, what if I'm not the only one. What if we're all just pretending to kind of understanding something we're spending trillions of dollars on. Maybe I should talk about it after all.
Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, science communicator, author, musician and YouTuber. She is currently employed as a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of Lost in Math: How beauty leads physics astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and of Existential Physics: A scientist’s guide to life’s biggest questions.
Her YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw
