SIO422: Tucker Carlson, Space Genius

On a recent episode of Tucker Carlson's show, fossil fuel shill Dr. Willie Soon came on to discuss ... friggen... dinosaurs on Saturn's moon. I mean, not quite but close. It's nonsense. Too bad for Tucker, cause we have a resident expert on space resource acquisition over here on SIO! J.D. Menges is currently working towards his PhD in Space Resources at Colorado School of Mines with a focus in Planetary Geology, Remote Sensing, and Resource Acquisition Strategy. He's here to break down what Tucker and Dr. Soon get wrong in this interview...

• Who is Willie Soon? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/smithsonian-climate-change-scientist-180954380/
• 2009 Abiogenic Study (Kolesnikov et al., 2009) https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo591
• Oil formation theories (Hook et al., 2010) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.06.005
• TITAN Abiogenic Oil Theories (Mousis et al., 2009) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.040
• Total Solar Irradiance, TSI (Schmutz, 2021) https://www.swsc-journal.org/articles/swsc/full_html/2021/01/swsc200108/swsc200108.html

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