I see Rodney McKay somewhere smirking and laughing.
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Posted on 03/24/2015 12:19:41 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Popular astrophysicist and anointed spokesperson for science Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed by the recent antics of Republican leaders, from Sen. Ted Cruz’s directive that NASA stop focusing on Earth to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s reported ban on the term “climate change.”
“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds,” he said during a live appearance in Sarasota, Florida, referring to the aforementioned censorship. “I’m astonished by that. Astonished and disappointed. I thought as a nation we were above this.”
Tyson, who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium and, as a side gig, host of the hit series Cosmos, also stood up for NASA’s work studying climate change, which Cruz, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, is actively discouraging.
“If you’re going to ignore Earth — and no one else is paying attention to Earth the way NASA is — you could be planting the seeds of your own destruction,” he argued, adding, “It’d be different if most of [NASA’s budget] was spent on Earth, but that’s not the case.”
It’s easy to shake our heads at politicians who seem to be actively steering us toward destruction, but in what’s sure to be his most inflammatory statement, Tyson maintained that the real people to blame are the ones who put climate deniers in office in the first place. “I don’t blame the politicians for a damn thing because we vote for the politicians,” he told his audience. “I blame the electorate.”
With our understanding of the imminent threat of climate change arguably greater than it’s ever been before, there’s reason to hope that the electorate might take that message to heart: taking a stance that directly opposes the scientific evidence on climate change could be becoming a political liability. Still, polling data shows that Americans have some catching up to do when it comes to understanding the dangers of global warming — perhaps those living in Miami, California and other places already experiencing the impacts of our changing climate could lead the way for the rest of us.
He thought as a nation, we are above....what exactly? Actual, real scientific procedure and discovery? Sorry to disappoint but all of us are not yet brainwashed or cowed by the High Priests of the Church of Global Warming.
No, but I do recall Sagan's preaching about "nuclear winter" and having to distort studies, papers, and research by real scientists to support his opin..., er, repackaged, useful idiot religion.
“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds”
He goes on to make his argument on purely political grounds. Looking forward to his scientific ones, but perhaps the brains of us mere mortals are too tiny to grasp them.
Sounds like this guy is a global warming denier because he has clearly abandoned that term
I see Rodney McKay somewhere smirking and laughing.
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Is that a photo of serf-absorption cubed? I mean, there was obviously a photographer present, what is the purpose of a “selfie” when a photographer is already in position?
Hmmm, when a large number of "ground temp stations" are located near parking lots that absorb heat from the sun....
OMG the planet has a fever all of the sudden
He has a masters in Slime-atology!
And they say its not a religion.
Brood of vipers.
This fool should be a dancing bear, not a scientist.
He is essentially Obama with a bigger ego
It is hard to reason with an idiot.
Grad student of Carl Sagan, who was also a complete zero.
They can never argue for their case, all they do is throw insults at those who disagree with them.
So that Greenpeace guy is a Republican? Who knew? Scientists are so whiny when they get political.
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