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Bill Nye: My Grandfather Rode A Horse Into Battle In World War One; "Everything Changed"
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 10, 2017 | Tim Hains

Posted on 07/10/2017 9:45:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Monday's edition of 'This Morning' on CBS, "Science Guy" Bill Nye speculated about why so many people skeptical of climate change predictions. Nye said that the Earth could power itself renewably if we had the will to "change everything." Nye says such changes are always taking place:

"What I tell everybody, my grandfather went into World War I on a horse. He rode a horse," Nye said. "But nobody rides a horse [anymore]... Everything changed in two decades. So let's change everything. We can do this people. Let's go."

Nye also gets a chance to pitch his new book: 'Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem'

BILL NYE: [Climate change skeptics] are closing theiryour eyes to a situation you don't wish to acknowledge. Also, you guys for you conspiracy buffs, there’s been an extraordinary effort by the fossil fuel industry to suppress the facts of climate change. But our claim on the on the engendering side is that there is enough energy in sunlight, wind, and a little bit of geothermal, a little bit of tidal energy to run the whole place right now renewably if we just decided to do it. And what I tell everybody, my grandfather went into World War I on a horse. He rode a horse. I guess he was not the world’s greatest horseman, but he did it. He lived through it, rode around at night around trenches in the dark. But nobody rides a horse for -- for a living.....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: billnye; climatechange; globalwarming; nye
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The uncle my dad was named after drove mules in a US machine gun outfit in WWI. I don't think that has been done before or since on an industrial scale, which proves/disproves nothing about the ambient temperature in France since the invention of the thermometer… although Bill Nye the Attention Guy could probably work up some froth about it.

Three decades after the start of WWI, my Uncle C was hauling - by truck - German POWs from the front in wholesale quantity, and they were generally amazed that there wasn't a a Yank horse to be seen, whereas Allied fighter-bombers and artillery had destroyed a staggering amount of the considerable horseflesh impressed into service by the Wehrmacht. Nye's causal relationships are bizarre to say the least, but maybe he can draw some correlation between Mann's hockey stick and hauling Germans by GMC truck versus letting them ride to the Marne on horses.

Mr. niteowl77

41 posted on 07/11/2017 3:20:07 AM PDT by niteowl77 (Trust- but verify.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He thinks Ted Kaczynski was on the right track....


42 posted on 07/11/2017 3:55:11 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Can anyone tell me what this gibberish means? “

It means; “I am relevant. I am important. You are an idiot and I am here to save you from yourself. I am a modern day Jesus; follow me to your salvation!” (That’s the gist I got from it.)


43 posted on 07/11/2017 4:19:33 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bill Nye, who lied...


44 posted on 07/11/2017 4:52:35 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What Nye doesn’t know is that in 1900, 93 million acres wete used for hay production for horses. About the same amount which is used for corn production now.

Horse manure in the streets was a problem, it stunk and carried diseases throughout the year.


45 posted on 07/11/2017 5:08:51 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But nobody rides a horse [anymore]... Everything changed in two decades."

Right Bill, tell that to these Nazi artillery soldiers in WWII. I suspect your Global Warming tripe is equally well sourced.


46 posted on 07/11/2017 5:28:10 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apparently we’ve got to go BACK to riding horses, except horse (and cow) farts are killing the planet.

Well then we need to get the population down to a “manageable” one-billion people worldwide.

Maybe the CDC has something in their vault that would decimate the population.


47 posted on 07/11/2017 5:29:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_I

The use of horses in World War I marked a transitional period in the evolution of armed conflict. Cavalry units were initially considered essential offensive elements of a military force, but over the course of the war, the vulnerability of horses to modern machine gun and artillery fire reduced their utility on the battlefield.


48 posted on 07/11/2017 5:31:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Horse farts Bill, horse farts.


49 posted on 07/11/2017 5:54:10 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Check with Brian Williams, I’m sure he was there.


50 posted on 07/11/2017 6:17:22 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s what means:

All of the great industrialists and practicioners, and theoretical physicists of the early 20th century did the math on energy/power transfer. Their conclusions were that solar and wind were not economicly viable or practical solutions to meet the needs of a changing world.

Their disciples have been reaching the same conclusions for the past 80 years.


51 posted on 07/11/2017 6:30:53 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: norwaypinesavage
Tell that to the Army Airborne in Afghanistan...


52 posted on 07/11/2017 7:01:34 AM PDT by moovova
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
possibly in Korea.

No possible about it, Sgt Reckless USMC. https://www.sgtreckless.com/Reckless/About_Reckless.html

53 posted on 07/11/2017 9:13:47 AM PDT by xone
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To: FreedomPoster

Actually, I was wrong, appears there was a big spike around the war and after, I always went off there being more now than at turn of century. There are close to 10 million in US now, which was close the the turn numbers or a bit over if you don’t count wild ones then (of which there were a lot), but it peaked out in the war years and immediately after.

Regardless, buggy whip and pony spanker makers are doing well...


54 posted on 07/11/2017 10:13:04 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s lost his mind. We have to believe the global warming lies and that men in dresses are women. Go away bill. People are always skeptical of known liars.


55 posted on 07/11/2017 10:27:25 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah, big parts of Europe keep EOD guys around. They’re probably standard fire department auxiliaries.


56 posted on 07/11/2017 10:58:58 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Axenolith

Wow, I’m surprised it’s even comparable. That’s a lot of recreational riders, and that’s an expensive hobby.


57 posted on 07/11/2017 11:02:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: buffaloguy
In pre-automobile cites, it wasn' just the manure that was an issue (which was most dangerous from drying up into dust and being inhaled), storage of hay attracted rodents and posed huge fire risk, and horse carcasses added to the disease, rodent, pests dangers:




58 posted on 07/11/2017 2:56:06 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: FreedomPoster; Axenolith

The horse population dropped dramatically following conversion of urban transportation from horse to motorized automobile and rail.

I think the horse population in the US peaked around 20mm by end of WWI(from memory). This site lists a peak of 25mm as of 1920: https://www.horsetackco.com/horse-blog/horse-population-in-the-usa/

Check out this article: The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1895: http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894.html


59 posted on 07/11/2017 3:11:34 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can anyone tell me what this gibberish means?

Apparently, Nye wants us all to ride horses and he doesn't think anyone does anymore.

60 posted on 07/11/2017 3:17:37 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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