I used to play Bill Nye's videos to the students in my science class back in the day. I had to pause and explain a lot of statements made by that overrated weatherman. 🤦♂️
It's hard to find good science videos that aren't thoroughly out of date or lecturing on someone's pet theory.
The last time I cared about Bill Nye saying anything was this video. "DeGrasse Tyson" can suck it.
Nowadays, if someone starts shrieking the tenants of faith from the Cult of Chicken Little, my brain marks them as mentally deficient and puts any "science" they have into the "woo-woo kook" container for storage or disposal.
How anyone thinks Bill Nye is possibly still relevant is beyond me.....
Absolutely agree on the whole global warming/climate change (because even if they have changed the title, they still are pushing the same old tired, long debunked idea that the earth is warming). I find it rather amusing that like elves in Tolkien's world, these alarmists aren't actually letting nature be nature at all; they want to force the entire climate and all the world ecosystems to bend to their desire and remain static just as they are. Forget that according to them, the earth is now what - 8 billion years old? And has, in that time, been both a greenhouse much hotter than how and an ice box much colder than now - I think they're up to 30 times now or so? I've lost track. And in that time species came and species went extinct, those who adapted survived, those that didn't; well, they didn't. And all this happened, according to them, well before humanity even set foot outside of Africa, let alone colonized the planet.
And even in the extent of history of humanity as we know it, the world warmed and cooled long before the Industrial revolution, and species continued to expand and go extinct. How much of the ancient world is under water now in the Mediterranean and off the coasts of the North Sea? And was submerged centuries before the industrial revolution?
I'm all for conservation and being mindful of what we do to the planet, sure. We don't dump toxic chemicals into water supplies or use hydro-mining to strip away top soil. I'm all for finding better, more sustainable ways to farm that doesn't need all the pesticides or using our forests prudently so that they renew themselves for another generation's use. I don't want to see the entire country paved over for strip malls and urban blight and would rather see cities go into their slums and revitalize what they have instead of every spreading outside in a fire-ring of urban blight.
But I also do NOT want to see all this done at the expense of humanity, either, and putting more people into poverty or denying more people basic necessities such as clean water, good food, and shelter. Which is exactly what climate change policies do.
Climate change is a code word for “tax traditional fuel sources” into oblivion…. Lack of solid leadership in FEMAs ranks has cause additional suffering among hurricane victims.
Add to this the California Air Resource Board refusal to allow back burns to reduce volatile underbrush. Nope, and when wildfires go berserk, “climate change”…
I used to play Bill Nye's videos to the students in my science class back in the day. I had to pause and explain a lot of statements made by that overrated weatherman. 🤦♂️
It's hard to find good science videos that aren't thoroughly out of date or lecturing on someone's pet theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM
The last time I cared about Bill Nye saying anything was this video. "DeGrasse Tyson" can suck it.
Nowadays, if someone starts shrieking the tenants of faith from the Cult of Chicken Little, my brain marks them as mentally deficient and puts any "science" they have into the "woo-woo kook" container for storage or disposal.
How anyone thinks Bill Nye is possibly still relevant is beyond me.....
Absolutely agree on the whole global warming/climate change (because even if they have changed the title, they still are pushing the same old tired, long debunked idea that the earth is warming). I find it rather amusing that like elves in Tolkien's world, these alarmists aren't actually letting nature be nature at all; they want to force the entire climate and all the world ecosystems to bend to their desire and remain static just as they are. Forget that according to them, the earth is now what - 8 billion years old? And has, in that time, been both a greenhouse much hotter than how and an ice box much colder than now - I think they're up to 30 times now or so? I've lost track. And in that time species came and species went extinct, those who adapted survived, those that didn't; well, they didn't. And all this happened, according to them, well before humanity even set foot outside of Africa, let alone colonized the planet.
And even in the extent of history of humanity as we know it, the world warmed and cooled long before the Industrial revolution, and species continued to expand and go extinct. How much of the ancient world is under water now in the Mediterranean and off the coasts of the North Sea? And was submerged centuries before the industrial revolution?
I'm all for conservation and being mindful of what we do to the planet, sure. We don't dump toxic chemicals into water supplies or use hydro-mining to strip away top soil. I'm all for finding better, more sustainable ways to farm that doesn't need all the pesticides or using our forests prudently so that they renew themselves for another generation's use. I don't want to see the entire country paved over for strip malls and urban blight and would rather see cities go into their slums and revitalize what they have instead of every spreading outside in a fire-ring of urban blight.
But I also do NOT want to see all this done at the expense of humanity, either, and putting more people into poverty or denying more people basic necessities such as clean water, good food, and shelter. Which is exactly what climate change policies do.
Climate change is a code word for “tax traditional fuel sources” into oblivion…. Lack of solid leadership in FEMAs ranks has cause additional suffering among hurricane victims.
Add to this the California Air Resource Board refusal to allow back burns to reduce volatile underbrush. Nope, and when wildfires go berserk, “climate change”…
It’s always politics versus funding…