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.
Brings to mind a great book by Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed.
Pompous little God-hater who thinks universe created in his image!
Nelly, please tell me how you explain the Sun ( you know the ball of fire that we revolves around) getting hotter, Mars getting warmer, Venus getting cooler? Are we driving SUVs around the sun and the planets? Why a few million years ago did a lake cover most of what is now the Connecticut River Valley and an ocean covered the Great Plains. Did Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble drive their cars around to ruin the planet?
Nell, please tell me that you live in a cave without electricity... if you do, I’ll worry about the planet, right after Gore moves into the same cave after donating his homes to the homeless.
And I thought after aligning with Russia to fight a world war, that we as a nation were done with fascist Nazi dictates.
Salon makes both Mad Magazine and The Onion look like respectable News magazines...
I wonder then how Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is not a climate guy, would explain these three items:
1) The globe has not warmed in over 15 years.
2) The leaked emails showed it is a hoax.
3) The leaked software models that I saw had code in them that was forcing a specific result.
Sometimes smart people can be dumb. Remember how scientists used to think the earth was flat....?
Neil, we are just all stupid rednecks.
BTW Neil, I thought in America, enlightened people took better care of their bodies. Did you miss that memo? More kale, less fried food, dude. Look how svelte Moochelle is.
Anyone can say this about any issue there’s disagreement on.
Great argument statement Neil. Stick up my ass. Tyson.
Don’t forget the rooftop stations too.
No smoking hot spot1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
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“Ignorant astrophysicist and anointed spokesperson for psuedo-science Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed...”
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I keep tweeting https://twitter.com/neiltyson to answer the Hot Spot question but he has blocked me now. Can’t answer it. He doesn’t have a clue so he has to run away from the question.
The DNC brand needs to burn.
Why I Blew the Whistle At EPA
- Dr. Alan Carlin
He has some credentials. I watched a few of the videos he made concerning the universe...interesting but after “hearing” Sagan in Tyson’s speech pattern I stopped at #2 in the series. After reading his position on AGW, I never returned to the series.
Possibly one who was helped by EEOC.
My thoughts exactly.
Say Neil, explain to us heathens the four seasons called spring, summer, fall and winter.
Why isn’t it warm and pleasant all the time?
Could it be the orbit we are in, the tilt of the Earth, the amount of volcanoes going off - most of which are under the sea and you liars do not account for or is it plastic bags and styrofoam cups from man causing this MASSIVE (to you liars) 1 degree warming over a century?
What happened to the ice ages thru-out the billions of years before man? How did the ice melt and the Earth warm?
Why are the other planets are warming up and cooling down as they orbit around the sun? Could it be that big fireball in the sky?
Neil, could you and the other liars stop flying and take a train or bus instead to show us heathens the way to utopia?
BTW any man who does not like Pluto is Goofy......
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