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 )

[Yosemitest]

This should be under "EXTENDED NEWS" and not under "Bloggers".
It's well sourced, well linked to government sources, and originated on CNN.

But FR wouldn't allow it to be posted under "News", so it had to be posted here.

[cba123]

Holy cow.

CNN had a real scientist on? One who questioned “global warming”?

Wow. Gotta hand it to them. Very good.

Way to go CNN. Keep it up.

(I dare you...)

[Texas Eagle]

Didn’t read the whole article
. 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?
Or at least mention how much of the atmosphere is made up of CO2?

[Telepathic Intruder]

"you’re doing a disservice by having one climate change skeptic"

Afraid to show all sides of an argument? Of course, because it's not an argument. It's settled so stop talking about it like we don't all agree!

[conservative98]

Good post.

[Yosemitest]

If you don't want to read it, then watch it at the link provided.
The expression on their faces is worth the time it takes to watch it.

[Celtic Conservative]

IIRC, Bill Nye has only a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Great if you want to build a bike. If you want to build a comprehensive climate model? Meh, not so much.

CC

[pepsionice]

It’s amazing that Bill Nye is ever referred to as a scientist. He’s an engineer...at best.

[justa-hairyape]

So when Bill Nye boils eggs, does he heat the water with a hair dryer ?

[Yosemitest]

Bill Nye, after being confronted with the cold, hard facts, should go into hiding.
But snowflake liberals have no shame.

[SpaceBar]

Bill Nye resembles Dr Smith from Lost in Space.

Not just the facial features, but also that ridiculous frown of condescension.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

And in gayness.

[Vigilant1]

I hate phony clickbait headlines. Yes, Nye disagreed & Nye is a non-scientist idiot. But did he "blow a gasket"? Not at all. He was perfectly calm. The headline is 'fake news'.

Please stop this kind of stupid shit. It hurts my brain. There was no 'gasket-blowing' here, just some pretty placid dialog. Stop the pointless hyperbole.

[Yosemitest]

WRONG !

[SpaceBar]

Yup, total poofter.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He made me mad. I used to call him Bill Nay the Science Gay but he sucked all of the fun out of that for me by outing himself.

[Does so]

Nye's initial expression was one of someone gritting his teeth!

I watched as Nye verbally insulted Dr. Happer—twice. Real scientists shouldn't make appearances in today's MSM.

[Fresh Wind]

And who is that exemplar of vapidity in the lower left corner? She must be from the Valley.

She does nod well, I’ll give her that.

[Chgogal]

The dingbats need to plant more trees.

[Fhios]

tl;dr

Add discredit, disrepute, disallow to the Alinsky method. Political Science has the upperhand over Science. I think it can be called weaponized science.