Posted on 09/22/2017 5:52:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been doing the leftist media interview circuit recently, pressing his peculiar thesis that professional (i.e., paid) scientists are a superior class of humans whose conclusions are intrinsically beyond reproach and must therefore be accepted blindly by unscientific lunks like you.
In each of these interviews, a non-climate scientist asks a series of predetermined questions designed to elicit rehearsed responses from the non-climate scientist Tyson, the upshot of which is that (a) people who question man-made global warming are anti-scientific fools driven by irrational agendas; (b) scientific consensus is not the product of the social and political pressures of academic life working on the minds of the career-motivated, publication-obsessed majority of scholarly mediocrities, but rather consensus is the very definition of Objective Truth; and (c) anyone who questions a scientific consensus poses a threat to the survival of democracy.
For an example of (a), here is Tyson's explanation of why some people continue to question the alleged scientific consensus on global warming:
What's happening here is that there are people who have cultural, political, religious, economic philosophies that they then invoke when they want to cherry pick one scientific result or another.
In other words, non-scientists who have the audacity to cite scientific results falling outside the consensus as grounds for questioning global warming are just people with agendas who are refusing to accept the settled science, for anti-scientific reasons. This doesn't account for the actual scientists who produced those dissenting results or hypotheses. Are they also to be dismissed as mere "deniers," since their views do not match the consensus?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Boy, the author knocked that one out of the park. But the irritating and true thing is, liberals will simply refuse to acknowledge the gist of the article and declare victory in their little echo chambers.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is out of his area of expertise .... like the Japanese-American physicist Michio Kaku, who is a self acclaimed expert on earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and all other natural disasters of which he always adds “caused by climate change”. No wonder no one takes these turds seriously.
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Since the 17th century people have been debating what is and what is not scientifically true. Before then, the Catholic Church dictated what was and was not scientifically true, based on ancient pagan interpretations of observations. Anyone denying those interpretations was persecuted, much like those today who deny the extent of anthropogenic climate change.
Of course Dr. Tyson is not suggesting that we return scientific authority to the Church. He is an atheist materialist and is devoutly anti-Christian. He wants his religion to dictate what is and what is not scientifically true.
How many variables was Tyson able to plug into his Taylor series of equations?
Wow, great commentary.
It’s no longer Science.
It’s sales !!!
These so-called experts know damn well their “science” is for sh8t, but they also know they can make a boat load of money pitching and shoveling this crap.
The MSM buys it.
Hollywood buys it.
Academia buys it.
Governments buy it.
Corporations Buy it.
And for some reason they can’t understand why WE aren’t buying it.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the CO2 content of the atmosphere is currently about 4 parts in 10,000 up from a previous peak of about 3 parts in 10,000
So imagine an array of white billiard balls 100 wide and 100 tall. That’s 10,000 billiard balls.
Now take 3 billiard balls out of the center. Replace them with 3 bright green balls. Pretend they are CO2 molecules.
That’s the historic norm for our atmosphere. 3 out of 10,000.
Now take one more out and replace it with one more bright green ball.
Those 4 balls represent the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere. 4 out of 10,000.
Now tell me. Do you really believe that extra billiard ball is causing the earths temperature to rise and hurricanes to suddenly turn violent?
Me neither.
About ten or fifteen years ago there used to be a show on The Science Channel called ‘’Cosmic Odyssey’’. My wife and I used to love to watch because we’re both amateur astronimists . This dude used to be on there and was a kind of low key, kind of tweedy guy who didn’t seem all that much different than any of the other astro physicists on the show. Somehow or another the Leftist media got a hold of him and know he thinks he’s some kind of of media superstar. What a jerk.
This moron is equating developing manufacturing technology with predictive computer modeling?
Stupid is as stupid does!
You are correct sir.
But that’s not important right now.
They are trying to appeal to people that live in congested cities with tons of waste, cars, traffic and confusion.
Many of these people will, at least they used to, tell us about overcrowding and the population bomb.
The scarcity of resources and how Man is destroying nature.
I always ask these idiots if they have ever been in an airplane flying cross country and looked out the window. It’s mostly empty space/land.
In virtually every major city in the US if you drive an hour or two, you will be in the country. You will be surrounded by farms and then vast stretches of open land with absolutely nothing, or for them, boredom.
I tell them to do some math.
We could fit the entire population of the US in the State of Texas with less density than that of Washington DC. And DC, BTW, is not a densely populated city.
Now tell me. Do you really believe that extra billiard ball is causing the earths temperature to rise and hurricanes to suddenly turn violent?
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Well, I didn’t until you explained it in terms of billiard balls.
You have presented settled science.
Great point.
The arrogant Tyson thinks himself an authority on everything.
Settled science???
Even if scientists ultimately find that nothing can travel faster than light for example, scientists are still questioning that text-book fact.
Was Einstein WRONG about the speed of light? New theory could completely change our view of the universe
>> Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is out of his area of expertise
The entirety of the AGW hype is predicated on the mysterious modeling that I seriously doubt Tyson reviewed, tested, and verified.
bkmk
When you stop questioning the evidence, you stop being a scientist. Tyson is no scientist.
Neil deGrASSe Tyson is a pontificating a-hole.
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