Posted on 05/10/2012 6:26:07 AM PDT by servo1969
Bill Nye the Science Guy told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that climate change is a bigger problem than the economy or high unemployment.
He also said that “this notion that government is inherently bad is new,” and after the November election, President Barack Obama will “have a freer hand.”
Bill Nye, who was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday speaking on behalf of the Planetary Society, said that he is “very concerned about climate change,” adding that, “you can talk about the economy and short-term jobs and so on — but there are much bigger problems.”
On the president, who Nye supported in his first run, the former television host said, “He has a lot of constraints until he gets re-elected. He can’t do what, certainly, my parents would have thought were routine things — social programs. This notion that government is inherently bad is new.” Nye added. “Whoever’s in charge can’t do anything about it until after the election. … He’ll have a freer hand.”
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The Real ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Some facts about greenhouse and global warming:
http://junksciencearchive.com/Greenhouse/index.html
"Andrew Dessler and colleagues from Texas A&M University in College Station confirmed that the heat-amplifying effect of water vapor is potent enough to double the climate warming caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117193013.htm
yea and as I recall he has an ex girlfriend that said he was abusive...she told some pretty terrible stories. I am not sure what came of the case but he seemed like a less than honorable guy in his private life.
Having just watched a child graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering, I can vouch for their versatility!
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It’s been my view for about 10 years. I’ve argued the case for low sensitivity at realclimate starting around 2005, but got yelled out. The only changes in my view over that period is my understanding attributing the rise in CO2 to man. I used to think partly natural, and it still is technically (nature is only absorbing about 1/2 of our output but could absorb more if there were not warming from the LIA)
Water vapor will generally rise with warming, but where Dessler and others like him screw up is not properly estimating the distribution of that extra water vapor. If it is more concentrated (e.g. more storms, rainfall, etc) then that is a negative feedback and the modest CO2 warming will not be amplified, and maybe even reduced. If instead water vapor is evenly spread out (e.g. deserts become more moist), then there will be amplification. Models cannot pin it down since their predictive accuracy is nil. The recent history of atmospheric temperatures points to lower sensitivity (less amplification from water vapor)
Yes, the estimates for volcanoes like Pinatubo are somewhat speculative, but they are an order of magnitude or two less than manmade CO2. Those estimates are pretty solid since we know how much oil is drilled, sold and burned.
He claims his parents would be shocked with politicans talking about moral (religious) issues.
In his parent’s lifetime, there were not 1960’s communists in power pushing immorality on the public from DC. What would have shocked his parents is politicans talking about gay marriage, gay adoptions, gay sex education, gay special rights and laws prohibiting “hate speech” which is an effort to prohibit the free exercise of religion protected by the first amendment. Politicans would not have run campaigns on th glory of sluthood and single parenthood.
Liberals decided to make all social structures and culture political, for the purpose of tearing America down. That would be shocking to people in past generations.
I think Bill Nye’s brain is finally leaking out through the holes in the back of his head.
(Watchers of Almost Live will remember this one)
"The third, and most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government, is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government, causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused, and converts, more and more, the active and ambitious part of the public into hangers-on of the government, or of some party which aims at becoming the government.
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a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished;"
- JS MIll On Liberty, 1859
All true. The natural sources and sinks are much bigger than mankind’s contribution so those will make all the difference. The way I look at it, the exponential decay of our “extra” carbon is fairly rapid, less than 40 years half life. Continued technological progress (provided we don’t kill the economy) will produce fusion energy or something similar and we will start to see that rapid decay kick in. We will also avert an ice age, at least for now.
Funny how gays who live a comfy lifestyle are for evolution.
Man was not created in a hurricane. Anyone who has done real science in a lab coat cannot for the life of them believe that something so delicate and sophisticated as a person be created in a non nurturing evironment of some sorts.
THe science is obviously missing something big.
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