Paul Westhaver writes in Tips and Notes:
CNN talking empty head (Feyerick) asks Bill Nye if approaching Meteor was a result of global warming…. but Bill’s response is oddly disquieting.
“Except it’s all science,” Nye said rescuing Feyerick. “The word meteorology and the word meteor come from the same root, so…”
Nye went on to discuss the asteroid which has missed impacting earth by 15 minutes. He says if this body were to impact over a populated area like New York City, that municipality would be completely leveled.
It gets worse. Mumbles McGuirk adds in Tips and Notes:
[T]his Saturday MSNBC broadcast with Bill Nye explaining that GW will cause storms to spin counter-clockwise in the ‘new normal.’
Bill Nye explains the science of storms
Bill Nye “The Science Guy” joins MSNBC’s Craig Melvin to talk about how climate change contributed to this weekend’s blizzard in the Northeast.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/50756384/#50756384
Gotta love the way Nye explains the Coriolis force.
We can only hope the stupid burns up in the atmosphere, either by re-entry or Global Warming.
OY VEY!!!!
Apparently climate change causes Al-Qaida now.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/07/mali_islamist_insurgents_could_climate_change_be_al_qaida_s_best_friend.html
He can’t even get numbers and units right when he’s talking about the area decimated by such a meteor… in both videos. 2000 square km equals 1200 square miles in the CNN video and 200 square km equals 1200 square miles in the NBC video. Brilliant. He can’t even get simple numbers and unit conversions right, but we’re supposed to believe what he’s saying. Anybody with any background in science can see right through this, but the anchor and most of the public just eat it up.
Nye is just another unwitting acolyte and dangerous spokesman for the CAGWs: Catastrophic Anthropogenic Genocidal Warmistas.
May he someday come to a full recognition of his facinorous cult.
Latitude says:
February 11, 2013 at 8:07 am
Haven’t you heard? Gore invented it. And he was the first to publish proof on the cover of his book.
/sarc
Poor fellow’s bowtie is obviously too tight and has cut off the circulation to his brain.
How sad!
I know this is off topic, mea culpa, I plead “slowness”.
About five posts ago there was a post “Has Global Warming Stalled?” It presented a graph showing temperatures and the concentration of atmospheric CO2. The graph showed that CO2 varies about 10 parts in 400 each year. If I haven’t messed up my calculations, that implies a time constant of something like ten years. That seems to mean that, if we quit emitting CO2 now, the anthropogenic contribution would be scrubbed from the atmosphere in about fifty years.
Why does this matter? The warmists rely on a very long residence time for CO2 to bolster their case that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic. They say that the natural sources and sinks of CO2 balance and that anthropogenic CO2 enters the atmosphere and stays there. Their accounts don’t work if you take a shorter residence time.
One of the skeptical arguments is that CO2 levels follow temperature changes rather than being their cause. It seems to me that, if CO2 has a short residence time, it is good evidence for that case. In other words, anthropogenic CO2 is taken up reasonably quickly and the increase in CO2 is likely due to natural causes.
Am I missing something?
I laughed when I heard this but quickly realized that as an un testable hypothesis, it is no worse than all the other ridiculous ideas about CO2 and GW that are currently driving national energy and enviormenmental policy.
enviornmental, mea culpa.
Latitude says:
February 11, 2013 at 8:07 am
[T]his Saturday MSNBC broadcast with Bill Nye explaining that GW will cause storms to spin counter-clockwise in the ‘new normal.’
does Gore know this?………………..snark
Apparently not. See the poster from “An Inconvenient Truth.” Clockwise hurricane.
Latitude says: does Gore know this?………………..snark
Why soytenlee! He invented the Coriolis effect.
Bubbagyro
“Kardassians (related to the Kardashians?—the names are too similar to rule out)”
Too funny! 🙂
Isnt Bill Nye the chief of the vampires in Undrrworld, and the old bloke in Four Weddings and A Funeral.
Nah, cant be, even actors arent that thick.
The only mistake Bill Nye makes in the video is he says meteor when he means asteroid….the woman is over talking non-stop rubbish about something, of which she has no knowledge or understanding.
Nye just proved Dr. Carson right about the American education system.
He’s gotten a lot of mileage off the ‘Science Guy’ character. He invented that character during his stand-up comedy days here in Seattle. Why people started taking it seriously is one of the great mysteries of the world. Nice to see he’s still doing stand-up comedy, though.
As I’d stated previously–I knew Al Gore was full of bovine excrement when the movie poster/book cover for An Inconvenient Truth had NH storms spinning the wrong way. Ugh.
Oh, come on. Sure, he’s an alarmist twit, but give the Nye guy a break here. He can’t tell the difference between evidence and wishful thinking, but he’s neither ignorant nor stupid.
Deborah Feyerick is obviously out of her depth talking about anything except celebrity gossip, and Nye graciously didn’t mention her stupidity and gallantly tried to disguise her amazing ignorance. You gotta admit, coming up with the meteor-meteorology etymological connection on the spur of the moment wasn’t bad.
I ain’t that gallant. I’d have channelled my inner Ackroyd with a “Deborah, you ignorant…” I also wouldn’t have been invited back.
That goofball Nye is one of the biggest proponents of agw. More troublesome is that the loudest agitators in congress in support for the theory are all extreme leftists, like MA congressman Ed Markey.
What does this extreme leftism have to do the science? I’ll tell you: nothing. It just so happens that all the leftist nutballs have got fully on board the agw bandwagon because, as Spike Lee would say, “it’s the right thing to do.” The “science,” and yes, surprise, the climate, has absolutely nothing to do with it. Oh yeah, a couple of supportive quotes for this:
“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing …” -leftist Senator Tim Wirth, 1993
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” -C. Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment
“A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” -Richard Benedik, U.N. / U.S. Bureaucrat
… etc
Climate “Science” is a leftist driven thing.
Make that clear. Expose the politics of the agw proponents.
And the media is “stocked” with leftist agw advocates. Educated leftists. Journalists by and large subscribe to the ex-Senator Wirth’s idea. It is “the right thing to do,” they think, to push agw regardless of any scientific validity. Furthermore, they are not going to dig deep (like, for example, read skeptic blogs) into anything that may cause them to question the science.
Our job is two-fold. In the short term, educate the public as best we can on the MSM menace on this issue. Also, start thinking about changing the way students are educated in college. Get down to the roots, or start some kind of penetrating conversations that get the young elites to start thinking differently about agw, and / or other issues.
Connect the dots.
Meteor…Meterology…Weather…Global Warming.
Sometimes I’m embarassed beyonds word to admit that I’m the same species as these people.
After recording this clip, he should have watched it, taken notes, and recorded it again, but the second time, coherently.
these things are silly.
want to know what the local weathermen/woman called this storm?
a CLASSIC nor’easter, as in they learned about this type of weather pattern,,,in college.
storm dumped only 26″ on my city officially, took me a few hrs to clean up.
Han Solo, in A New Hope, brags that the Falcon made the Kessel Run in “less than twelve parsecs”. This is a unit of distance, not time. Oops.
Bill Nye fancies himself as someone who can explain science. So does putting the near collision of this asteroid 2012 DA14 and earth in terms of “time”, “fifteen minutes!”, help to understand how close it came? Not really since it’s ambiguous. Fifteen minutes for which object? The Earth? The asteroid 2012 DA14? Both? Seven and half minutes for both? So instead of making it easier to understand Bill Nye just confuses the issue.
As for whether or not this asteroid has anything to do with Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, that’s so stupid it burns. The only way this asteroid could possibly affect the climate of Earth is if is smacked into us, and then only briefly would it have an impact on the climate.
Move along, nothing to see other than: http://www.plognark.com/Art/Sketches/Blogsketches/2008/thestupiditburns.jpg.
Bill who??
And CNN – isn’t that a telegraph company?
But seriously, even the writers at SNL wouldn’t think-up this stuff.