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Bill Nye blows gasket when a real scientist schools him on facts about ‘climate change’
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| Apr 22, 2017
| Chris Enloe
Posted on 04/23/2017 11:59:58 PM PDT by Yosemitest
Bill Nye, known for his 1990s science kids 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.
Theres this myth thats developed around carbon dioxide that its 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, its just like water vapor, its 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 didnt 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, youre 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 hes 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 dont have a vote to say how many are for the law of gravity and how many are against its based on observations.
And if you observe whats happening to, for example, the temperature, the temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted.
Its much, much less factors of two or three less.
So the whole basis for the alarmism is not true,
its based on flawed computer modeling.
Nye, who is not a real scientist, immediately shot back at Happer.
Thats completely wrong, Nye shot back.
Hes 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-2010s 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 isnt.
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 thats 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 Chamberlains 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 Hitlers 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 earths 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:
TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: billnye; billnyesciencetwit; climatechange; fakescienceguy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; physicist; trump; williamhapper
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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.
To: Yosemitest
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...)
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:06:47 AM PDT
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: Yosemitest
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?
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:12:44 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Yosemitest
"youre 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!
To: Yosemitest
To: Texas Eagle
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.
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:15:17 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
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
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:21:54 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: Celtic Conservative
It’s amazing that Bill Nye is ever referred to as a scientist. He’s an engineer...at best.
To: Yosemitest
So when Bill Nye boils eggs, does he heat the water with a hair dryer ?
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:44:06 AM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: Celtic Conservative
Bill Nye, after being confronted with the cold, hard facts, should go into hiding.
But snowflake liberals have no shame.
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:45:20 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: pepsionice
Bill Nye resembles Dr Smith from Lost in Space.
Not just the facial features, but also that ridiculous frown of condescension.
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:46:25 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
To: Yosemitest
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.
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:54:41 AM PDT
by
Vigilant1
(The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.)
To: Vigilant1
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posted on
04/24/2017 12:56:04 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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posted on
04/24/2017 1:07:41 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
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.
To: Vigilant1
Nye's initial expression was one of someone gritting his teeth!
I watched as Nye verbally insulted Dr. Happertwice. Real scientists shouldn't make appearances in today's MSM.
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posted on
04/24/2017 1:16:49 AM PDT
by
Does so
(USA: Watching Muslims' 2nd US Generation become "Radicalized"...)
To: Yosemitest
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.
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posted on
04/24/2017 1:31:16 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Yosemitest
The dingbats need to plant more trees.
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posted on
04/24/2017 1:40:21 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
To: Yosemitest
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.
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posted on
04/24/2017 1:46:16 AM PDT
by
Fhios
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