Posted on 09/13/2017 7:00:38 AM PDT by rktman
Last week, media personality Bill Nye "the science guy" waded into meteorology, claiming that man-made climate change is directly responsible for the strength of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
"It's the strength [of these hurricanes] that's almost certainly associated with global warming," Nye told Dan Rather in a radio interview. "Global warming and climate change are the same thing. As the world gets warmer and there's more heat energy in the atmosphere you expect storms to get stronger."
Nye doubled down on this statement. "The more heat energy in the atmosphere strengthens the storms, Dan," he said. "We are all gonna pay for Harvey, we're all gonna pay for Irma, one way or another."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
I like it in the winter when they blame extremely low temperatures and heavy snowfall on Climate Change. Darn that warm weather!
lol. Liars' club.
Bill Nye would go NUTs on this - Stellar corpse sheds light on origin of cosmic rays
TUCSON — The origin of cosmic rays, high-energy particles from outer space constantly impacting on Earth, is among the most challenging open questions in astrophysics. Now new research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society sheds new light on the origin of those energetic particles.
Discovered more than 100 years ago and considered a potential health risk to airplane crews and astronauts, cosmic rays are believed to be produced by shock waves — for example, those resulting from supernova explosions. The most energetic cosmic rays streaking across the universe carry 10 to 100 million times the energy generated by particle colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
The Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion that was observed almost 1,000 years ago in A.D. 1054, is one of the best-studied objects in the history of astronomy and a known source of cosmic rays. It emits radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from gamma rays, ultraviolet and visible light, to infrared and radio waves. Most of what we see comes from very energetic particles (electrons), and astrophysicists can construct detailed models to try to reproduce the radiation that these particles emit.
The new study, by Federico Fraschetti at the University of Arizona, and Martin Pohl at the University of Potsdam, Germany, reveals that the electromagnetic radiation streaming from the Crab Nebula may originate in a different way than scientists have traditionally thought: The entire zoo of radiation can potentially be unified and arise from a single population of electrons, a hypothesis previously deemed impossible.
According to the generally accepted model, once the particles reach a shock boundary, they bounce back and forth many times due to the magnetic turbulence. During this process they gain energy — in a similar way to a tennis ball being bounced between two rackets that are steadily moving nearer to each other — and are pushed closer and closer to the speed of light. Such a model follows an idea introduced by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1949.
“The current models do not include what happens when the particles reach their highest energy,” said Federico, a staff scientist at the University of Arizona’s Departments of Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and Physics. “Only if we include a different process of acceleration, in which the number of higher energy particles decreases faster than at lower energy, can we explain the entire electromagnetic spectrum we see. This tells us that while the shock wave is the source of the acceleration of the particles, the mechanisms must be different.”
Co-author Martin Pohl added: “The new result represents an important advance for our understanding of particle acceleration in cosmic objects, and helps to decipher the origin of the energetic particles that are found almost everywhere in the universe.”
The authors conclude that a better understanding is needed of how particles are accelerated in cosmic sources, and how the acceleration works when the energy of the particles becomes very large. Several NASA missions, including ACE, STEREO and WIND, are dedicated to studying the similar properties of shocks caused by plasma explosions on the surface of the sun as they travel to Earth, and so may add vital insights into these effects in the near future.
The new work appears in: “Particle acceleration model for the broadband baseline spectrum of the Crab Nebula”, F. Fraschetti and M. Pohl, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017) 471 (4) (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1833).
Bill Nye the Science “Lie”!
Cosmic ray=Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless.
Global Warming is rising temperatures caused by increased CO2 levels. Climate Change is any weather extreme be it high or low temps, or too much or too little rain. It even encompasses abnormally normal weather. “Global Warming” became known as “Climate Change” when the temperature wouldn’t cooperate with the theory.
A pair of truthers...
Here I see the NOAA analysis of hurricanes and global warming that the real scientist uses to support his slapping of fake scientist Nye -
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
It’s a pretty good review of numerous studies. You can scroll to the summary at the bottom where it basically says there is no support for the leftist mantra that global warming is causing more hurricanes. Save this to refute the libs in your world that repeat the leftist talking points in this area. Not that they’ll listen to science anyway, but it’s just good to stuff their faces.
The “science lie”, I like that. “ almost certainly “, these are his weasel words or the escape hatch that’s always used in fake science claims in case the fake is called out on a B.S. charge later.
‘Impress your friends’; NOAA -”It is premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity,” the organization reported.
(Although the quote contained, ‘human activities’bs)
Bill Nye the Mechanical Engineer guy that wishes he was a scientist.
The latest from George Jetson.
Heat energy is expressed as air pressure, or in the case of the Earth, which is not enclosed, expansion. Wind is caused by air pressure differentials. Global warming models predict the polar regions will warm more than tropical regions. So more warming means less air pressure differentials... or FEWER hurricanes.
We could say that the advancement of California Socialism is also tied to the ramping up of Hurricanes — there is a direct correlation.
LOL!! Dan Blather interviews a kiddie show host as an “expert” in science! LOLOLOLOL
It’s the left’s retard ball!
Irma was the 6th most powerful storm and Harvey the 17th. Meaning lots of storms were larger/more powerful. Bill, once again, showing his lack of scientific knowledge.
Bill Nye the ‘engineering degree’ guy.....................
Plugs! What a treat for the GOP.
Did anyone bother to ask Mr. Nye how many hurricanes hit the U.S. in the last 12 years? Were we not supposed to be underwater by now?
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