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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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‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’ is a television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. ‘Cosmos’ covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been...

https://www.youtube.com/user/SagansCosmos

After years of preaching how Venus was an earth-like planet capable of supporting life, when it was established that the temperature of Venus was in excess of 800F, he changed to warnings about THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT...

http://thefederalist.com/2014/02/26/the-original-sin-of-global-warming/


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