Posted on 05/12/2016 8:15:55 AM PDT by Heartlander
Bill Nye fashions himself a voice of rational thought and scientific inquiry. His shtick has gotten him into classrooms and on an endless loop of evangelizing TV appearances. Yet nearly every time he speaks these days, Nye diminishes genuine science by resorting to scaremonger-y nuggets of easily dismissible ideologically-motivated nonsense.
Take this tweet he sent out to his nearly three million followers:
More severe weather. More suffering. More expense. Let’s all take climate change seriously. pic.twitter.com/HGHQJLgqRr
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) May 11, 2016
If people trusted global warming alarmists, they might function under the premise that severe weather events are something unique to this particular age. It was only the discovery of fossil fuels that forced man to wrestle with the terrifying hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and rain showers. Before the discovery of oil, or the Fall of Man, it was San Diego for everyone all the time.
We’re also still in the middle of the longest hurricane drought in U.S. history, by the way, even though Al Gore assured us that over the past ten years hurricanes would strike with increasing intensity.
Admittedly, climate science is complex. There might be perfectly reasonable scientific justifications for what’s happening on the tornado front. Although, surely, there are just as likely interesting scientific arguments that challenge The Science Guy’s chilling and reckless assertions meant only to scare you into adopting leftist economic policy, not to teach you anything. Nye’s “science” is, at the very least, arguable.
But that’s not the reason Nye is dishonest. Or, at least, not the only reason. His biggest lie—and he makes these sorts of claims all the time—is that people are increasingly suffering because of global warming, and thus by extension they are suffering because of the use of fossil fuels.
This is simply untrue. Life, by nearly any quantifiable measurement, is better today for more people than it has ever been. One of the externalities in the spike of comfort and health is that more people are emitting carbon into the air. Fewer people are suffering. On top of the huge, if inadvertent, moral benefits of oil, gas, and coal, we should add that far fewer people are dying from drastic weather events—or any weather, actually.
As an aside, it’s worth noting that cold kills around 20 times more people than heat. But, in general, there has been an amazing decline in deaths and suffering due to the climate. Indur Goklany has meticulously laid out the case that human progress has not only improved the environment but the lot of humans around the world. The most substantial gains on the latter front correspond directly with the rise of the use of fossil fuels. Take a look at deaths due to climate and drastic weather events.
In some sense, I can understand Nye’s frustration. Offering a nuanced or balanced narrative when preaching your gospel is never going to be as effective as the hellfire.
Now, I’m one of those Philistines who believe climate change is likely real to some extent, but believes that embracing the Ludditism of leftist environmentalism would be far more destructive than any threat global warming poses. Nye actually makes a strong argument for my position. If we concede for the sake of argument that drastic weather events have been rising, why aren’t more people dying? Is it possible that trusting man’s adaptive capacity to deal with these slight variations in the climate is better than freaking out and condemning billions of humans to more poverty?
None of this is up for discussion. Because “science.” In fact, if you asked Nye, he’d probably call for the state to prosecute you for a thought crime.
The link that is the last words of the article is the most interesting part of the article.
NOW you know.
He has only portrayed the role of a TV science guy. Is not a scientist of any achievement.
Worse that a huckster. All one gets from Nye is self-promotion, not anyone’s definition of science.
He’s also a pencil-necked geekster
He is so irrational-—and he is called the ‘Science” guy!!!! “For the children”
He is part of the super, sodomite elite structure to destroy moral formation in our children (remove Reason and Logic (Christian Virtue))-—to force Fichte’s Wet Dream, that Up is Down, Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls.
Repeat the Big Lies over and over and it becomes the Truth. Bill Nye just repeats Lies over and over-—about macro-evolution-—EVERYTHING. He is the unscience guy..
He joins Steven Hawkings and Neil Tyson as atheists who use science as an end to a means.
A truth liberals will never admit. Their whole rationale is built on telling people everything is terrible but will be better if only the sheeple will pony up their money for liberal "causes." It's a racket. Always has been a racket.
If he promoted real science, he would be broke. No one is interested in that. He promotes pseudoscience because there are endless numbers of people willing to fork over money to hear a juicy doom-and-gloom fantasy story about man-made disasters.
The global warming scam is just data inputed into someone’s computer program. Garbage in and garbage out. Designed to make a lot of money for gov’t and individuals at the expense of civilization.
Where does he get his money from?
Don't forget - At one time it was settled science that the earth is flat.
And that the sun and planets and stars revolved around the earth.
And that in the 1970's scientists and "experts" agreed we were on the brink of another ice age.
Bill Nye Is A Huckster
No he’s not, he’s an a$$hole.
One day the climate change hucksters like Bill Nye will be spoken of in the same way we speak of the alchemists today.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
ALL of the fools who promote climate change are hucksters!
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