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 )

[brucedickinson]

Bill Nye is literally a Disney character like Goofy or Pluto.

[Yosemitest]

May Boeve, she speaks the last 30 seconds of the video and exposes her liberal bias, as well as her lack of ability to seriously debate using facts.

[kanawa]

She looked like a bobblehead doll.

[healy61]

This morning’s sermon in our formerly Presbyterian Church, now graciously released, included mention of Bill Nye, the mechanical engineering guy.

[exDemMom]

Did Bill the Fake Science Guy specify the rate at which CO2 is entering the atmosphere and the rate at which plants are converting it into oxygen?

CO2 is not converted to oxygen. It is converted to protein, sugar, and fat--the basic molecules that make up living organisms. Without that CO2 in the atmosphere, there can be no life. The oxygen in the atmosphere is a by-product of plant metabolism, left over when plants make the many biomolecules that they consume CO2 for.

I would love to see some life scientists making the rounds and explaining the carbon cycle and the absolutely essential role of CO2 in the continuance of life.

[MayflowerMadam]

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.

[Skooz]

bfl

[Bob434]

I wish the real scientist would ask nye how just 0.00136% of the atmosphere could possibly heat up e3nopugh air molecules to cause global warming- have nye give the numbers to explain- the math doesn’t lie- there isn’t nearly enough CO2 i nthe atmosphere to cause ANY temperature change globally whatsoever- nowhere near enough-

I wish he’d also ask nye why it is that CO2 only ruses 800 years AFTER temperatures rise IF CO2 is the cause of temperature change-

and ask him why there hasn’t been any change in 20 years DESPITE rising CO2 levels all of those years

[Tallguy]

Bill Nye has what other lack in the climate debate — a built in following of gullible college students who remember his cute little ‘science’ program from when Mommy plunked them down in front of the TV. It’s like arguing with jolly old Captain Kangaroo. You’re just being mean. LOL!

Seriously, these kids are handicapped. They can’t think critically. They think they are behaving scientifically but all they are doing is creating a ‘religion’ where they’ve had none.

[Yosemitest]

They can;t think, PERIOD.
They FFFEEEEEEELLLLLLL, ... and do not think !

[Yosemitest]

They can;t think, PERIOD.
They FFFEEEEEEELLLLLLL, ... and do not think !

[brucedickinson]

yes if I want to hear his opinions about aircraft hydraulics, I’ll let him know. For everything else- not so much.

[okie 54]

Is Bill Nye a real wacko or an ersatz wacko?

[okie 54]

Is Bill Nye a real wacko or an ersatz wacko?

[alloysteel]

CNN made a mistake....

The REAL scientist, the one with credentials and an honest application of the factors involved, and was unafraid to attack the myth built up around some mystical properties that carbon dioxide simply does not have, should not have been there. Water vapor is, and always has been, the major factor in keeping the biosphere of earth within a certain limited range. The oceans cannot, by their very nature, absorb endless amounts of energy, without that energy being turned to the volatillization of the liquid form of water to water vapor, and in doing so, effect the COOLING of the surface waters. Deep layers of ocean water are not effected by additional heat, as it never penetrates that far (some 1500 meters of depth), where the water temperature is a uniform level of about 4 degrees Centigrade.

There may be an upwelling of heat from a deep-sea volcanic vent, but this is quickly dissipated by the warmer water rising rapidly to the surface, where the effect is to accelerate the formation of water vapor, and in the Arctic Ocean, has the effect of melting the polar ice cap from the BOTTOM. There is a huge outflow of relatively less saline water from the strait between Greenland and Newfoundland, which has the effect of shifting the Gulf Current to the east, warming much of the Scandinavian Peninsula and the British Isles, otherwise they would be as cold as Fairbanks, Alaska or Penobscot County, Maine.

[rlmorel]

Bill Nye didn’t even know how to apply the Ideal Gas Law, but had no problem shooting off his mouth on it.

Same with Man-caused global warming.

What a liberal POS.

[bray]

Bill Nye the Marxist guy doesn’t like scientists.

[kabar]

Nye’s reaction caused me to blow a gasket. He chastised CNN for even having this “climate change denier” on and wanted to shut him up. Nye’s comments were based on emotion, not science and the scientific method.

[faucetman]

“and the rate at which plants are converting it into oxygen?”

Let me fix this....

and the rate at which plants indirectly convert it into oxygen?

[Mr. Douglas]

The expression on their faces is worth the time it takes to watch it.

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I didn’t watch (only read the article) but I can guess. One of the most embarrassing (for him) parts of any discussion between Nye and the other side results in Nye looking like an angry old man, angry at the world. He makes Ebeneezer Scrooge look like Mother Theresa.

The contempt, anger, and utter disrespect for both his opponent and the audience are palpable.