Bill Nye blows gasket when a real scientist schools him on facts about ‘climate change’

CNN and the BLAZE ^ | Apr 22, 2017 | Chris Enloe

[Yosemitest]

Bill Nye, known for his 1990’s science kid’s show who has since become an outspoken advocate on “climate change,” accused CNN of doing a “disservice” to its audience on Saturday by having a real scientist on their network to discuss climate change.

The CNN “New Day Saturday” panel, which included Nye and William Happer, a physicist at Princeton University,” became heated after Happer said the climate change that Nye talks about is a “myth.”


“There’s this myth that’s developed around carbon dioxide that it’s a pollutant,
but you and I both exhale carbon dioxide with every breath.
Each of us emits about two pounds of carbon dioxide a day, so are we polluting the planet?” Happer, who has advised President Donald Trump on climate issues, said.

“Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas, it’s just like water vapor, it’s something that plants love.
They grow better with more carbon dioxide, and you can see the greening of the earth already from the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” he explained.

Nye hit back and said Happer didn’t understand the “rate,” or speed at which carbon dioxide is entering the atmosphere.
Then he ripped CNN for not having only climate change alarmists on their network.

“And I will say, much as I love the CNN, you’re doing a disservice by having one climate change skeptic and not 97 or 98 scientists or engineers concerned about climate change,” Nye said.



When asked why he’s a skeptic, Happer — a real scientist — explained that climate change alarmism is built on a dishonest foundation.




“Let me point out that science is not like passing a law,” he said.
“You don’t have a vote to say how many are for the law of gravity and how many are against — it’s based on observations.
And if you observe what’s happening to, for example, the temperature, the temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted.
It’s much, much less — factors of two or three less.
So the whole basis for the alarmism is not true,
it’s based on flawed computer modeling.”


Nye, who is not a real scientist, immediately shot back at Happer.

“That’s completely wrong,” Nye shot back.
“He’s cherry picking a certain model.
The heat ended up in the ocean.
This is not controversial in mainstream science, everybody.”



Nye added that he “encourages” everyone to look at the facts.
For years, climate change alarmists said the polar ice caps would melt completely by the mid-2010’s causing the sea levels to rise by meters,
which would then put low-lying coastal areas across the world under water.
None of these things ever happened.
In fact, ocean waters have not warmed on an overall average basis, despite claims made by people like Nye and former Vice President Al Gore.

Not only that, but a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the government agency that monitors the climate, whistleblower said the agency for years manipulated climate data for political reasons — meaning to show that climate change is happening when it really isn’t.

Still, Nye spouted his talking points and lectured Happer for being a “climate change denier.”

He said:

I encourage you to cut this out so we can move forward and make the United States a world leader in technology.
We want advanced wind turbines…advanced concentrated energy plants.
If we were to do that, we would have at least 3 million new jobs in the United States that could not be outsourced.
We would not need to have our military on the other of the world defending what people call “our oil.”
We could move forward and we could export this technology.
We could be world leaders in this instead of wringing our hands and cherry picking data
and pretending that this problem that’s obvious to the scientific community but it is somehow not obvious to you.

Later in the interview, Happer said the Trump administration should back out of the 2016 Paris Agreement,
a global agreement made last year on greenhouse gas emissions.
Happer compared the agreement to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasements of Germany dictator Adolf Hitler in 1938, known as the Munich Agreement.

That agreement allowed Hitler to take over territory in what was then Czechoslovakia known as the “Sudetenland.”
Hitler said he wanted the territory because it was occupied mainly by Germans and Austrians.
We now know, however, that it was just one more step in Hitler’s plan to begin conquering Europe.

The comparison Happer made stunned Nye and the CNN hosts, who demanded that Happer explain his comparison.
“It is an appropriate comparison because it was a treaty that was not going to do any good,” Happer explained.
“This treaty also will not do any good.
Anyone who looks at the results of doing what the treaty says can see that the effect on the earth’s climate is —
even if you take the alarmist computer models trivial
— it will not make any difference
and yet it will cause enormous harm to many people.”

The contentious exchange came on “Earth Day 2017,” also the same day that people across the world were marching “for science.”

Watch the exchange below:

VIDME SCIENTISTS, SUPPOPRTERS RALLY ON EARTH DAY ( 9:55 )

[headsonpikes]

Troll Alert!

“Happer’s a physicist not a climatologist; his views on climate change are bought and paid for by the Energy lobby”

Are you a bot?

[Texas Eagle]

CO2 is not converted to oxygen. The oxygen in the atmosphere is a by-product of plant metabolism,

(sigh) Okay. Fine.

[txrefugee]

Happened to see this live while channel surfing, and it was great. Nye, a skinny version of Algore, was unable to counter any of the very well presented points of the physicist, so he filibustered to keep Dr. Happer from getting more time. Nye is a fake scientist, who has no background in science, but is ‘’deemed” one by the Democrat media because he played on on a long-ago kids’ TV show. Typical.

[Fresh Wind]

Happer’s a physicist not a climatologist; his views on climate change are bought and paid for by the Energy lobby.

Prove it.

[Delta 21]

I trust Bill Nye to lead me on science issues just as much as I trust Captain Kangaroo to pilot my cruise ship thru a field of ice bergs.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Still, Nye spouted his talking points and lectured Happer for being a “climate change denier.”

This is the polite way that a Globull Warming alarmist calls someone a Nazi.

[Trillian]

Leftists, they’re always blowing something.

[The Numbers]

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-princeton-academic-testifying-for-ted-cruzs-climate-hearing-is-for-hire-by-fossil-fuel-corporations/

The guy has a history of taking money in exchange for talking about how great CO2 is for the environment (not even his field ) as long as those ‘donations’ can be kept quiet.

[Egon]

"Troll Alert! ...Are you a bot?"

I went back and read Number's posting history. While I don't necessarily agree with all the points made throughout, they're all well-reasoned and researched posts. I don't think he/she is either a troll or a bot.

Please don't succumb to the growing trend on here of making knee-jerk reactionary posts when someone casts doubt on a premise.

The irony here is: it's exactly what Bill Nye is doing in the interview.

[headsonpikes]

I certainly reacted to the notion that skeptics are on the secret payroll of Big Oil.

I also believe that geologists, physicists, et al have a perfect right to speak publicly on matters of physical science.

If CAGW climatology is more than a charlatan’s guild, then let it be scientifically transparent, as all other serious disciplines are. Open the data!

Computer models? Paugh!

American-style Lysenkoism is still bullsh*t.

[OA5599]

What exactly is wrong with that?

Are you saying that his opinion on CO2 was formed in order to cash in on money from oil companies? Or could it be that he had this opinion first and was then able to make money off of it?

Furthermore, I don’t see how certain aspects of climatology would not be in his field considering that he is a physicist. My background in nuclear engineering. I know enough about radiation to see that most “climatologists” don’t seem to really understand electromagnetic radiation. Yet they have no problem tossing around the term infrared to the public as if it’s just this one specific thing and not a spectrum.

Also, I would take whatever was written in The Nation with a grain of salt. Doubtful you are getting the whole truth from that agenda-filled progressive publication.

[jonno]

“...The guy has a history of taking money in exchange for talking...”

Hmmm... let’s extend that logic:

Do you think there is a HISTORY of Nye getting paid to be on these programs?

Or, do you think there is a HISTORY of Algore (perchance one of your heroes?) getting paid to give his speeches?

[exDemMom]

CNN had two hack ‘scientists’ on for their ‘debate’, neither with any scientific credibility in the field they were debating - which is probably why they were on CNN!

A physicist is far more qualified to speak on the effects of CO2 on climate than an engineer. I'm a biochemist, and I am also far more qualified to speak on the effects of CO2. That is because CO2 is a chemical and obeys immutable physical principles. Both physicists and chemists understand the physical properties of atoms and molecules because they have studied these subjects for years. Being a biochemist, I have also studied biology, and so can discuss the crucial role of CO2 in maintaining life on earth.

[exDemMom]

I’m a biochemist. I value precision when speaking of scientific matters.

[exDemMom]

The guy has a history of taking money in exchange for talking about how great CO2 is for the environment (not even his field ) as long as those ‘donations’ can be kept quiet.

And why, exactly, would CO2 *not* be good for the environment? Do you know what would happen if the "global warming" alarmists successfully found a way to remove CO2 from the air?

CO2 is essential for life. Every living thing is composed of carbon-based molecules, which are made from CO2.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

And who is that exemplar of vapidity in the lower left corner? She must be from the Valley.
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LMAO! Wonderful observation, and well said!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

NONSENSE!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

My husband, an actual Scientist, says that Nye is considered “bogus” and “a hack” among legit scientists. A joke. As far as he knows, the guy has never been published in a peer-review situation or done any serious work.
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So, this faux scientist is who the Gore indoctrinated snowflakes come up with to defend their climate scam? Pitiful!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

No? Then I’m compelled to ask: who bought and paid for your views?
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Nicely done!

[cweese]

"So when Bill Nye boils eggs, does he heat the water with a hair dryer ?"

Lol! That made me think that perhaps the "science guy" has a bunch of rube goldberg devices all over his house.