We could all be #FakeScientists like you though, Nye. All we have to do is say we are and babble about #FakeScience.
Posted on 10/24/2017 5:12:39 PM PDT by markomalley
Bill Nye “the Science Guy” said his efforts to convince the public of the dangers of global warming have failed, largely due to a misinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry.
“I am a failure,” Nye told Salon in an interview ahead of a documentary on the Science Guy’s rise to fame.
“The United States has now got the head of the EPA who wants to close the EPA,” Nye said, adding his decades-long effort to convince people of the dangers of man-made global warming has been “completely ineffective.”
Earlier this year, Nye aired a documentary series on Netflix aimed at adults. The series, however, has been panned by critics and being awkward and condescending, missing all the charm of his 1990s series.
Nye’s show did get an Emmy nomination for its “Sexual Spectrum” episode, which featured a song called “My Sex Junk” performed by actress Rachel Bloom. The song is about the fluidity of gender — contradicting Nye’s previous show on gender.
Nye began hosting a children’s science show in the 1990s. He did a few episodes on the topic of global warming, and Nye’s children’s book featured a chapter on this issue. His upcoming documentary focuses on his evolution from children’s TV host to global warming activist.
Nye can now be seen on TV railing against global warming skeptics, or on Twitter linking every extreme weather event to man-made climate change. Nye recently said on TV that skeptics would eventually all die out because they tend to be older.
“The problem has been the fossil fuel industry is so well-funded,” Nye told Salon, “even these guys … with kids and grandkids have lost sight of the consequences of introducing the idea that scientific uncertainty — plus or minus a couple percent — is somehow the same as doubt about the whole thing — plus or minus 100 percent.”
Nye said he and others have worked hard to raise awareness on global warming, but “we’ve done virtually nothing about it all this time.”
“What I tell everybody is vote,” Nye said. “We don’t want everybody to be a scientist; that would be unwieldy.”
“We need accountants and artists, filmmakers, journalists — but we want everybody to appreciate science,” Nye said.
You give yourself far too much credit, Bill.
Given that his reasoning is completely flawed, he’s even a failure at failing.
He is the planet’s first Superdork. What a loser.
Yes you are sir, but not for the reasons you think.
People know snake oil when they see it
Salon? they still publishing??
Bill Nye is a liar ...What he calls the “fossil fuel industry” has spent practically nothing to counter the global warming hysteria propaganda machine which spends billions each year and is gov’t funded, UN funded and so on..
“fossil fuel industry” spends a million here and a million there to sponsor a conference. They are too scared of global warming zeolots to be more active.
We could all be #FakeScientists like you though, Nye. All we have to do is say we are and babble about #FakeScience.
Bill Nye, the Pseudo-Science guy!
You feel me,bro?
Glowbull Warming Hoax!
I think I'm gonna break out some *good* scotch on the strength of that one. :-)
Facts are stubborn things.
AND LOW T.
...and he looks like a creepy perv Chester type.
(Even *before that raunchy video of late. Talk about icing on the cake.)
I miss Beakman’s World
He is left with his version of vast the right-wing conspiracy when people pose even the most basic questions. As example, “So if increases in the earth’s temperature are not caused by heat rays seeking out the four in 10,000 particles to bounce off, what could be the cause? Maybe you should ask solar scientists who think the sun’s radiance controls the earth’s warming and cooling?
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