Posted on 05/30/2011 2:08:38 PM PDT by cruise_missile
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was on Fox News's "America's News Headquarters" Saturday trying to make the case that despite it being "very difficult to mathematically connect" this year's tornado activity to global warming, "Tornadoes are almost certainly a consequence."
When host Uma Pemmaraju asked a seemingly simple question, "Are other countries seeing the same type of activity, the intensity of these tornadoes picking up in those regions as well," "The Science Guy" first seemed completely stumped, and then gave a rather absurd answer (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL NYE: The tornadoes very difficult to mathematically connect to climate change, but the rains, the extra warmth in the atmosphere, the extra water vapor in the atmosphere, that’s, those are facts. That’s the real deal. Now, we, we are patriots. We are from the U.S. I am. And you would like the U.S. to be the leader in addressing this problem. We would like to be out in front in trying to deal with whatever it is that’s holding in all this heat and creating all this extra water vapor in the atmosphere. Tornadoes are almost certainly a consequence.
It is indeed telling that "The Science Guy" didn't once mention the impact of this year's La Niña on tornado activity which most climatologists and meteorologists on both sides of the global warming debate agree is largely the culprit.
On the other hand, what would you expect from a guy with a degree in mechanical engineering?
But the best was still to come when Pemmaraju asked a pretty simple question, and "The Science Guy" looked like he had been asked to prove Riemann's Hypothesis:
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He’s about as much of a “science” guy as Oprah is a Christian.
Yeah I saw that. He’s an idiot. Tornadoes can happen pretty much anywhere in the world but north America is prime for them.
Bill, wake up stupid. Yes tornadoes happen in other parts of the world.
He sure isn't a meteorologist.
If I’m not mistaken, his degrees are in electrical engineering and communications.
Poland gets a lot of tornadoes.
“Where ever you have warm and cold air masses meeting, there is the potential for tornadoes to form.”
-Cripplecreek, high school dropout and GED holder.
I suspect they’re fairly common on the steppe of Asia.
OK, I’m no meteorologist by a long shot.....but my minor in college was Atmospheric Science (more or less meteorology). My final thesis was a study on tornadoes, and I know for a fact that there have been some NASTY ones all over the world (I read about one in 19th century France that hit a town know for its cloth mills....that still gives me nightmares).
I saw this very exchange on FNC and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “Global warming! I swear to ya, by God, it’s global warming!” I was literally shouting at the TV...which I am given to doing at times, but this time it was LOUDER.
What an idiot.
Hey...he’s a good liberal so OBVIOUSLY he’s an expert on EVERYTHING!!!!!
Well, it is true.
Few countries have as many trailer parks as the USA does.
And we know they are tornado magnets.
See? SCIENCE!
LOL
I still remember this clown in Seattle when he was part of the show ALMOST LIVE on NBC’S local affiliate. Yes, he is a major leftard.
Back in the early ‘80’s I took a course featuring Dr. Fujita, considered to be the world’s foremost authority on tornadoes. He told as that must tornadoes occur in the U.S. but that there were relatively few deaths, considering. He stated (imagine Asian accent), “When tornadoes come, Americans head for the basement; Japanese go get their cameras.”
I prefer Joe Bastardi who accurately predicted an active tornado season based on the cooler than normal upper atmosphere.
Video of a Polish tornado, they had a pretty severe outbreak in August 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyccexvtu4A&feature=related
Oh, yeah, some pretty bad tornadoes have hit parts of Europe, at least.
Today is my "joke -- serious" post day.
Nowhere on Earth is there a geological oddity like the warm Gulf of Mexico and the cold Great Lakes -- they do a push/pull across the pretty sparse land mass between them (what we call the Midwest) that creates conditions that are rarely, if ever, seen elsewhere.
A lot of weather events happen on the Earth, but so much of the Earth is ocean these events are not noted by man.
I think that the tornadoes and stormy weather in the midwest are a direct result of the La Ninya weather pattern that we are experiencing on the west coast. We have had nothing but rain and unusually cool temperatures (245 days without breaking 70 degrees). That weather moves across the country and hits the warmer air coming from the Gulf and you get tornadoes, hail and just plain stormy weather. The same thing happened during an extended La Ninya in the nineties. The difference then was that the East Coast had a terrible drought at the same time.
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