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Bill Nye demolishes climate deniers: “The single most important thing is .... climate change."
Salon ^ | November 6, 2015 | Sean Illling

Posted on 11/08/2015 12:47:28 PM PST by CedarDave

On Nov. 10, Bill Nye will release a new book titled “Unstoppable.” As only Bill Nye can, he uses the book to explain the science behind climate change, debunks popular myths, and asks readers to take action in their own lives to create a sustainable future. The book is shot through with optimism, but Nye has no illusions about what lies ahead. The message is simple: Climate change is real; humans are causing it; and we have no choice but to build a better and cleaner world.

Salon spoke with Nye about his new book and about his broader intentions. We asked him what he thought about climate deniers and the persistent anti-science demagoguery around this issue. Our conversation is below and has been edited for clarity and length.

So why did you write this book? Why now? And what’s your central message?

My goal is to change the world! Really, that’s what I’m trying to do. Obviously, this book isn’t going to change the world, but it is part of the bigger idea that we all have to think optimistically about this. We’ve got to go into this knowing we have a hard challenge but that we’re going to win this fight, and we’re going to save the earth for humanity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: billnye; climatechange; demagogicparty; energy; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; headlies; memebuilding; methane; nye; opec; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism; salon; seanillling
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To: CedarDave

I’m convinced because BIll Nye is almost as smart as Al Gore.


21 posted on 11/08/2015 12:59:12 PM PST by almcbean
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To: CedarDave

I know that the public at large, some of them, believe this but do the ones who preach it really believe it?


22 posted on 11/08/2015 1:01:05 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: almcbean

I am convinced his head is pointed.


23 posted on 11/08/2015 1:02:23 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: CedarDave

Bill Nye = entertainer nothing more


24 posted on 11/08/2015 1:02:51 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: CedarDave

Wow read the comments, not a one in support of Climate Change or Bill Nye.


25 posted on 11/08/2015 1:04:23 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: CedarDave
Of course the climate is changing. Nobody's denying that. It's been changing since Day 1. The only constant in the universe is change.

But is it man that's causing the change? That's where we deny.

Why is it that the Left that worships evolution are the very ones that don't want anything to change?

26 posted on 11/08/2015 1:04:48 PM PST by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: CedarDave

Stick to Dickelodeon or Dick at Nite, Bill!


27 posted on 11/08/2015 1:05:05 PM PST by Fernet Branca (Liberalism is for girls)
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To: Mastador1

Nobody denies that climate change is real, and that it has an effect on humanity.

But humanity has little if any effect on climate change. The one single factor that has been focused on, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, has absolutely ZERO effect on either cumulative increases of planetary temperatures, or pollution in any form.

One of the ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL constituents to the life cycle here on earth is the concentration of carbon dioxide. We are talking about parts per MILLION, nowhere near the concentration of water vapor, and certainly far less than the concentration of a very corrosive element, oxygen, which could not be maintained at its current level without continuous replenishment through the chemical and biological regeneration by photosynthesis, converting this scanty supply of carbon dioxide into the free molecular oxygen and carbohydrates, several forms of which make up a large part of our own dietary intake.


28 posted on 11/08/2015 1:05:19 PM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I do not get what the climate freaks think would be the “correct” climate and why over eons the climate is wrong to change. And of course why these freaks think we can do a damn thing about it. How useful they are, though, to powers that wish to control people.


29 posted on 11/08/2015 1:05:37 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: skeeter

“The rest of the world is on to you Global Climate Change hucksters. So are most Americans.”

Not according to the comments at salon. Whew! I read a lot of them.


30 posted on 11/08/2015 1:05:47 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: CedarDave
You're right, Bill, but not the way you seem to think.

When it gets cooler, people die.

When it warms up a bit, people flourish.

In fact, if it hadn't warmed up about 10,000 years ago, where I live would still be under a couple kilometer thick ice sheet.

Just think what that would do to my property values, not to mention how danged difficult it would be to drill oil wells in the Bakken...

31 posted on 11/08/2015 1:05:49 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: CedarDave
Nye:

Part of the solution to this problem or this set of problems associated with climate change is getting the deniers out of our discourse. You know, we can't have these people - they're absolutely toxic. And so part of the message in this book is to get the deniers out of the picture,

Another lib radical that wants to shut down opposing views. He obviously doesn't want contrary science to have a hearing. And he calls himself a science guy?! Jeez...

32 posted on 11/08/2015 1:07:01 PM PST by CedarDave (Hillary for incarceration not inauguration)
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To: CedarDave

Climate Change is the Big Lie decided upon to be the cover story for the military implementation of the destruction of all nations into global totalitarian communism and the destruction of all technology except for the elite.

Nothing less than total global slavery, in our lifetimes.


33 posted on 11/08/2015 1:08:21 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: CedarDave
Headlies.

Climate will indeed be changed, as we plunge into a 50 year mini ice age caused by the sun.

Bill Nye is an asshat.

34 posted on 11/08/2015 1:09:05 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Hey that’s good. You should write a book too. I’d rather read Penthouse than more of this fraud’s nonsense.


35 posted on 11/08/2015 1:09:05 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Yaelle

If you ask the climate freaks what is the idea climate temperature for da Erf you’ll find they have no answer and will not answer it. All they’ll do is spit invective you for asking such.

Maybe they really want us to be back in the deep freeze of this two million year old ice age instead of being in this warm inter-glacial we have been experiencing for the past 10,000 or so years.


36 posted on 11/08/2015 1:11:06 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: CedarDave
Here's a little question that I ask proponents of global warming (aka: idiots):

Venus is the poster child for global warming. The percentage of CO2 in Venus' atomoshpere is 95.6%. Can you tell me what the percentage of CO2 in Earth's atmoshphere?
They think that I am lying when I tell them .04%. (Not 4%, .04%). The Earth atmosphere is 99.96 NOT C02.

37 posted on 11/08/2015 1:11:29 PM PST by fhayek
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To: DainBramage

“Wow read the comments, not a one in support of Climate Change or Bill Nye.”

That was not true earlier. This morning most comments supported him and AGW.


38 posted on 11/08/2015 1:12:59 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: CedarDave
Oh, well! As long as it comes from the renowned scientific expert Magnus Doktor Bill NYE ...! I mean, it ain't like he's called "The Fishin' Guy" or "The Guy What Knows a Little Sumthin' 'Bout Science." He's "THE SCIENCE GUY," dontcha know?

Us dumb 'uns should base all our social, technological, and economic plans on his word.

39 posted on 11/08/2015 1:15:11 PM PST by IronJack
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To: cripplecreek
Bill Nye has a degree in electrical engineering.

So do I. Does this mean I'm now qualified to be a climatologist? I've need to update my resume.

40 posted on 11/08/2015 1:15:25 PM PST by Vic S
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