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Neil deGrasse Tyson slams GOP climate deniers: “I thought as a nation we were above this”
Salon ^ | March 24, 2015 | Lindsay Abrams

Posted on 03/24/2015 12:19:41 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Popular astrophysicist and anointed spokesperson for science Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed by the recent antics of Republican leaders, from Sen. Ted Cruz’s directive that NASA stop focusing on Earth to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s reported ban on the term “climate change.”

“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds,” he said during a live appearance in Sarasota, Florida, referring to the aforementioned censorship. “I’m astonished by that. Astonished and disappointed. I thought as a nation we were above this.”

Tyson, who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium and, as a side gig, host of the hit series Cosmos, also stood up for NASA’s work studying climate change, which Cruz, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, is actively discouraging.

“If you’re going to ignore Earth — and no one else is paying attention to Earth the way NASA is — you could be planting the seeds of your own destruction,” he argued, adding, “It’d be different if most of [NASA’s budget] was spent on Earth, but that’s not the case.”

It’s easy to shake our heads at politicians who seem to be actively steering us toward destruction, but in what’s sure to be his most inflammatory statement, Tyson maintained that the real people to blame are the ones who put climate deniers in office in the first place. “I don’t blame the politicians for a damn thing because we vote for the politicians,” he told his audience. “I blame the electorate.”

With our understanding of the imminent threat of climate change arguably greater than it’s ever been before, there’s reason to hope that the electorate might take that message to heart: taking a stance that directly opposes the scientific evidence on climate change could be becoming a political liability. Still, polling data shows that Americans have some catching up to do when it comes to understanding the dangers of global warming — perhaps those living in Miami, California and other places already experiencing the impacts of our changing climate could lead the way for the rest of us.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush41; climatechange; cosmos; crackpot; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; epa; georgehwbush; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; green; mediawingofthednc; neildegrassetyson; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; sagandisciple; scam; smearmachine
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To: fishtank
What's the correct term here? Is that a gaggle of assholes? Or a flock?
21 posted on 03/24/2015 12:26:38 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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22 posted on 03/24/2015 12:26:46 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It is the LEFT that has politicized science, not the Right. If he has a complaint about politics in science he need to buy a mirror.


23 posted on 03/24/2015 12:27:10 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Tyson and gang seem to be ignoring satellite temperature readings to advance their global warming agenda. Who is being disingenuous. If NASA is so important why is their input not being used. Faith-based settled Scientology is using the heretic tag on skeptics.


24 posted on 03/24/2015 12:27:46 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Cincinatus

Maybe a “knot”.


25 posted on 03/24/2015 12:28:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Tyson is a pompous idiot inflated with his own sense of self importance.


26 posted on 03/24/2015 12:28:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“I thought as a nation we were above this”

*Appeal to sophistication
*Appeal to conformity

I thought we were above putting a no-talent camera whore as some sort of spokesperson for “science”, myself.


27 posted on 03/24/2015 12:28:48 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This guy is the science equivalent of Barack Obama.

A no talent hack with no accomplishments but full of undeserved self assurance? Right on the money.

28 posted on 03/24/2015 12:29:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds....

Google "Eugenics," Neil.

29 posted on 03/24/2015 12:30:04 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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RE:”I thought as a nation we were above this”

Is he talking about traditional marriage and raising kids?

30 posted on 03/24/2015 12:30:10 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sounds like a man whose government stipend is about to run out or is in need of upping.


31 posted on 03/24/2015 12:30:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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32 posted on 03/24/2015 12:30:36 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Starstruck

His job is to shut up and say scientific-y stuff to his hipster fanbase so they can feel smart.

He sold out any integrity he ever had the moment he got his first paycheck for being on TV.


33 posted on 03/24/2015 12:31:11 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Cincinatus

Perhaps it is the same term used to describe a bundle of sticks...


34 posted on 03/24/2015 12:31:14 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: DungeonMaster

Remember when Sagan said that we should lay off Iraq because if they ignited the Kuwaiti oil fields we’d be plunged into nuclear winter?


35 posted on 03/24/2015 12:31:38 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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36 posted on 03/24/2015 12:31:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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To: GeronL

Nope...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/09/17/if-we-cant-trust-neil-degrasse-tyson-who-can-we-trust/


37 posted on 03/24/2015 12:32:33 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Astrophysicist?”

How about “Astrologer?”


38 posted on 03/24/2015 12:32:49 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: kosciusko51

Together they form a mighty faggot....


39 posted on 03/24/2015 12:33:21 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Starstruck

Rush nailed it today when he pointed out that all the global climate hoax is based on computer models going out 50 years and not on actual fact.


40 posted on 03/24/2015 12:34:08 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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