UPDATE: video added below.
Tonight CFACT’s Marc Morano vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy CNN, Piers Morgan
9 PM EST
Marc Morano, Editor in Chief of Climate Depot, takes on Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Piers Morgan show, CNN 9 PM tonight (Tuesday) check your cable TV and satellite listing for Channel numbers
If you haven’t yet seen Marc in action, don’t miss this chance to see him live. Maybe he will ask about this video fiasco Nye did with Al Gore:
Why did they have to fake the experiment in post production if it was “high school science’ and so easy to replicate? Why hasn’t Nye called for this video to be removed from Gore’s website? (Still there over a year later) at http://climaterealityproject.org/video/ very first one top left.
Transcript at Newsbusters here
Rosco, you are mistaken on the lunar surface cooling rate. If you examine this typical chart, http://theinconvenientskeptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Moon-theoretical-observed.png
You will see that the temperature drops from 230K to 100K in about 16 hr, or about 8K/hr. It then continues to get slightly colder over the following days.
hro001 says:
December 5, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Thank you hro001 but can you find it on the BBC ? Is the full recording and transcript on Bishop Hill? I think it is only part of the entire exchange.
@ur momisugly vieras and RACooke, you’ve gone to great lengths theorizing the consequenses of Mr Nye being wrong, so…answer the question… and what if Mr Morano is wrong? @ur momisugly KenCoffman and Tom R, science makes compelling argument against co2 global warming, yet all science is theory and in my opinion so is theology. However precaution is not going to send the human race to extiction as Vieras and RACooke would have you believe.They are extremists in the other direction. My point… Is it ” beyond reason” to be cautious with a science as unpredictable as meteorology? In regard to your dismissal of theology having any basis of credibility, some day you may, as millions and millions of people have, for centuries, experience something that you cannot scientifically explain, no way, no how, yet it happened. I’m a Hospice RN, and have had people,(10 + or – in 6 years) with all of their faculties intact, tell me relatives who have passed away came to visit and tell them “it will be ok, and not to be afraid”. It’s chilling to hear them talk to them, very difficult to explain, but never would I, or any of the other nurses, say the person’s spirit was not in the room with them. That said I do come away scratching my head. I guess I’m saying don’t be so critical of something , just because you can’t explain it with science.
Ken
Notice Morgan’s tactic with 30 seconds to go he rattles off a LONG list of “facts” in a “how-do-you-explain this” tone — sea level rising, tornados, ice sheets, etc etc. and leaves a tiny fragment of time at the end for Morano to sum up, without sufficient space to even list one of these things. Then he interjects with a bald assertion that “scientists” would take issue with Morano’s “facts”, followed by an “apology” that they’re out of time.
Morano’s pretty good. But why doesn’t he just call Morgan on this and say, if you REALLY want a proper debate on something why don’t you call Nye and me in and limit the discussion to nailing down — or deconstructing — a single fact. Something that we can actually discuss and settle in the time your network permits. Simply trading talking points, with YOU controlling who gets the right of reply, and who gets last word, simply does a poor service to your viewers.
Ken C. says:
December 6, 2012 at 2:18 pm
@ur momisugly vieras and RACooke, you’ve gone to great lengths theorizing the consequenses of Mr Nye being wrong, so…answer the question… and what if Mr Morano is wrong?
@ur momisugly KenCoffman and Tom R, science makes compelling argument against co2 global warming, yet all science is theory and in my opinion so is theology. However precaution is not going to send the human race to extiction as Vieras and RACooke would have you believe.They are extremists in the other direction.
My point… Is it ” beyond reason” to be cautious with a science as unpredictable as meteorology? In regard to your dismissal of theology having any basis of credibility, some day you may, as millions and millions of people have, for centuries, experience something that you cannot scientifically explain, no way, no how, yet it happened.
Regrettably, you did misunderstand my points above. Please, let me continue.
First, I was (deliberately) using the term “religion” (theist dogma) with all disrespect to the belief system f those who propose their CAWG beliefs unpon the rest of the innocents in the world, DESPITE the scientific evidence AGAINST any foreseeable CAGW catastrophes of any type.
In the near future (25 to 50 years).
In the mid-future (50 to 1205 years)
or in the far future (150 to 900 years.)
There is no credible future of increasing man-released CO2 nor nature-caused temperature increases that will bring harm to the world’s people, plants, and animals. Only good.
The CAGW religion REQUIRES a dread mortal fear of supposed postulated future increases that will actually and really kill people and harm innocents.
THAT future of reduced energy and greater mass starvation and death by hunger, cold, sickness and poverty is what the CAGW community is urging on the world. THAT future is what I fear. THAT future is what they WILL force on all people due to their policies and their belief system.
and THAT future is 100% assured if their policies are made law – which IS their goal in life. The death of 1/3 to 3/5 of the people now living on earth IS what they – what their leaders WANT, strive for, and most urgently desire.
Aside: Do I believe in miracles? They are a requirement for sainthood. If there was no evidence for miracles, there would be no modern saints.
David Ball says: December 6, 2012 at 6:40 am
[re Mann vs Morano]
As Morano had noted in the discussion thread (and Alex has added to the transcript) the BBC actually chopped Morano’s last words. Nonetheless …
it took a fair bit of mousing around on the BBC site, but their archived version is available at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010z9qy
Segment begins at approx. 37:03
Hope this helps 🙂
Hilary Ostrov
Short Morano bio, thought this pertinent to the discussion.Marc Morano
Susan Etheridge for the New York Times
Updated: April 10, 2009
As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Marc Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue. In April 2009, with Congress debating legislation to curb carbon dioxide emissions, Mr. Morano left his job with Mr. Inhofe to start his own Web site, ClimateDepot.com.
Mr. Morano says he sees the site as a “one-stop shop” for anyone following climate change. He will post research he thinks the public should see, as well as reported video segments and ratings of environmental journalists. Supporters see Mr. Morano as a crucial organizing force who has taken diffuse pieces of scientific research and fused them into a political battering ram.
Mr. Morano may be best known for compiling a report listing hundreds of scientists whose work he says undermines the consensus on global warming. But environmental advocates and bloggers say many of those listed have no scientific credentials.
Environmentalists and mainstream climate scientists, however much they disagree with Mr. Morano’s views on global warming, still pay attention to what he does.
After college, Mr. Morano worked as a reporter for Rush Limbaugh, where he said he learned the satisfactions of poking at the “liberal establishment.” He made a documentary on the Amazon rain forest, he said, because it annoyed him that celebrities like Sting could dictate what people think about the issue. They vastly exaggerated the problem of deforestation, he concluded.
He joined to Cyber News Service, where he was the first to publish accusations from Vietnam Swift-boat veterans that Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, then the Democratic presidential nominee, had glorified his war record. Many of the accusations later proved unfounded.
Mr. Morano’s new global warming Web site is being financed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues. Public tax filings for 2003-2007 — the last five years for which documents are available — show that the group received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ExxonMobil Foundation and from foundations associated with the billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, a longtime contributor to conservative causes.
I don’t necessarily agree with Morano’s politics, but I think he did quite a good job here. His fast delivery provided a lot of facts in a very short time while Bill Nye looked a bit confused…
I shall now debate a person who believes the earth is flat, on Piers Morgan.