Guest essay by Eric Worrall
TV Cosmologist, Astrophysicist and climate advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to “grab Trump by the Crotch” when he meets the President-elect to talk about science, to get his attention.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: I’ll grab Trump by the crotch when I meet him
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he wants to use an unusual greeting when he meets President-elect Donald Trump.
“When I meet President Trump, I may first grab his crotch — to get his attention — then discuss Science with him,” Tyson tweeted Friday afternoon.
When I meet President Trump, I may first grab his crotch — to get his attention — then discuss Science with him.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 18, 2016
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Sadly Tyson seems to have chickened out and deleted the original crotch grab tweet. Rather a shame really – Trump seems to like people who have the character to stand by what they believe. Having said that, I strongly suspect if and when President-elect Trump meets Tyson, Trump would prefer a traditional handshake rather than a crotch grab.
The following is a video of Tyson explaining why he thinks electing climate “deniers” represents the downfall of democracy.
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Crotch grabbing is appropriate for discussion but Tyson’s sexuality is not. Ok I won’t appeal
Tyson’s comments are the subject of the article. Your speculations on his sexuality aren’t relevant.
It’s rather disappointing that people, of all political stripes, are resorting to threats of initiation of aggression for their political purposes, or actual initiation of aggression for their poltiical purposes. Whomever initiates aggression is guilty of a crime and has invited the person they use force with to defend themselves appropriately. In the case of Trump, Neil just threatened the US President, that’s actually a crime… doh… not wise, besides the use of force tends to shut people down not wake them up Neil…. If you can’t use actual evidence to convince people your science is correct the use of force is going back to the Bronze Dark Age of the Spanish Inquistition… not the stellar commitment to the science method I’d expect from a scientist Neil…
Connsensus scientists are gettin’ crotchety!
Neil deGrasse Tyson mite go for the crotch but trump will have him by the Balls, or maybe it’s the new secret hand shake when asking for more grant money. “Not what you can do for me, rather what I can do for you” wink wink say no more.
Cheap salesman with 70s moustache (in other words, your typical “science communicator”) threatens to grab president’s crotch.
I suggest Elon Cyrus or Miley Musk would be good stage handles for our new porn star scientist.
The German alphabet lacks the letter ‘y’, but uses ‘j’ instead- ja? Now pronounce journalist with a German accent and you will discover what they actually are- something to p**s on.
The bastard deserves to be neutered.
Again?
Well here’s my 2 cents worth
https://youtu.be/vmX5Kn-eIGI
What makes him think he’s ever going to meet with President-elect Trump?
Btw, Trump did not say he grabbed anything. It was a statement of observation that any of us could have made and it sounded consensual to me: “When you’re a star….they let you”….
Anyone else notice that? What does “let” mean?
NDT is one of the gifts that just keeps on giving.
He demonstrates every time he opens his mouth that despite his claims of being so “brilliant” and “knowledgeable”, he’s really dumb as a rock. In fact, compared to him Joe Biden could be doing rocket science and/or brain surgery.
In addition to being a classless fool, he is actually setting race relations back by decades.
I can’t help seeing NDT as the Eddie Murphy character in Coming to America: (if this works)
http://www.top10films.co.uk/img/coming-to-america-randy-watson.jpg
I wonder if his thoughts on climate are as contrived as his name is.
NDT has been living with Bill Nye (gay guy) for too long.
He needs to get back to his “roots”! Ha ha 😉
I am surprised, since this is a site covering climate issues, not to have seen any mention of the current extraordinary state of the arctic
The temperature has been at a record high for the time of year with an astonishing 36 degree F positive anomaly…
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1611.0;attach=38462;image
The sea ice extent has been tracking at much lower than the 2012 record low for about 6 weeks… and this last week has not only seen a stall in ice growth, but an actual decrease in extent… ice has retreated on the Atlantic side and in fact may even have melted.
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
This now results in an exceptionally low global sea ice anomaly…
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/17/13667630/global-sea-ice-concentration-graph-science-twitter
Surely this is something worth posting an article on??
I mean its at least as attention grabbing as being grabbed in the nether regions (climate wise)?
Grif, as I commented up-thread, please take a look at Paul Homewood’s article on this. Maybe even leave a comment there…
The anomaly over a vast area of northern Russian is a STAGGERING and ASTONISHING and MASSIVE and UNPRECEDENTED and TRULY SCARY -30ºC.
The level of Arctic sea ice over most of the summers in the first 3/4 of the Holocene was an ASTOUNDING .. ZERO !!!
The only reason its been so AMAZINGLY HIGH is that the level in the late 1970’s was up there with the HUGE AND MASSIVELY EXTREME Arctic sea ice levels of the FRIGIDLY COLDEST period in the last 10,000 years
Have a look at the temperatures in the Arctic during this early phase of winter. Not only are they remaining stubbornly high, but the graph is stating to look like one of those bats you hit pucks with on the ice. You may like to check out the data on this very site. You will notice Arctic ice extent actually becoming less rather greater at this time.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Fantastic! That must mean everything is ok! We were also hit by a large object which wiped out Dinosaurs as well as many other life forms. That must mean we don’t have to worry about it happening again because it has happened before!
Poor Gareth…. What has being basically a only a tiny amount above the COLDEST period in the last 10,000 years got to do with comets wiping out dinosaurs.
What the world has VERY FORTUNATELY been experiencing over the last 200 odd years has been a RECOVERY from a spitefully cold and bitter time.
If you want to go back there. MOVE TO SIBERIA. !!
I’ve been flagging this up for weeks and been largely ignored. It is apparently the wrong type of climatic event so is not of any great interest to many on this site. Personally I think it is a critical issue which should be attracting all our attentions at this time. No doubt someone will point out that it may have happened millions of years ago so there is nothing to get concerned about.
Which event are you worried about, Gareth, the unusually warming Arctic or the unusually freezing Siberia? I take it there’s a meteorological connection.
The thing about Siberia is that it being cold is not unusual, some of the lowest temperatures ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere have been in Siberia. But Arctic ice melting at this stage of early winter is extremely unusual, if not unprecedented. A melting Arctic as some posters keep pointing out may have some advantages, but it’s confirmation that Arctic ice is not rebounding and we are entering unknown territory with regards to climate and weather patterns. Silly comments written in block capitals recommending a move to Siberia don’t really add much to the debate.
Gareth, you say:
Which tends to inform me that you only care about warming. Are you not even a little exercised by the fact that Siberia is a lot colder than what would considered usual?
Harry Passfield asks:
“Are you not even a little exercised by the fact that Siberia is a lot colder than what would considered usual?”
Gareth responds.
Harry, if Siberia suddenly got so warm in the winter that the permafrost was melting I would consider that to be a more concerning issue than if Siberia got colder. Getting colder in Siberia is really not unusual , Arctic ice melting at this point in the season is something you just cannot ignore. Much of the cold air currently over Siberia is undoubtedly from the Arctic, which has been replaced with warmer air. Regardless, that is still causing an unprecedented melt which may well have unpredictable effects on the climate and weather.
ps Well done for apparently using your real name, there are too many people who shout loudly but hide behind aliases.
Hey Gareth, 6 months ago, when ice levels were substantially above the lowest point EVAH, were you flaggin it, or was it the wrong type of climatic event for you?
What will you be doing 6 months from now when the situation has reversed again?
Garneth: what did you think would be the effect of the months-long release of El Niño heat into the atmosphere? ,Did you think it would just vanish? Some of it made its way in moist air to fall as NH snow, especially in Asia and Greenland, both of which are very high right now, and also amplified some by the heat of Atlantic Hurricanes and Pacific Typhoons.
All of this is weather, and not ‘Climate Events’, even the 12 Gigatons (12 km^3) of water equivalent that fell on Greenland in one day not too long ago.
Actually, I agree with Griff on this one. This seems to be quite an unusual weather event. It would be interesting to have a post where all the hows and whys of all the contributing factors are set out for examination.
Certainly this is more newsworthy than some left wing media personality said something juvenile and stupid.
That sort of thing is just not news anymore.
If you have watched the patterns of the El Nino, you would notice that this is warmth from the EL Nino and the North Atlantic Blob that has been slowly working its way towards the Arctic. The El Nino stuff was hanging about over northern Russia for quite a while, and the Blob warmth eased up through the Bering Straits. The anomaly seems to be trapped there by the weather patterns, while other places are starting get very cold weather. When it does dissipate, there is not much warmth coming out of the oceans to replace it.
I agree. It should be of interest to all at this site. And without all the flippant remarks about it’s weather, etc. But even more strange is that this topic has been largely ignored even by the MSM.
Sorry that you don’t understand that it is a weather event which has stuck the anomaly in the Arctic, while causing a large very cold region over northern Russia. I can’t help you comprehend.
Just because you think something is unusual does not mean that those who aren’t idiots think it is unusual.
Since Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist Trump could always ask him for an explanation of Svensmark’s hypothesis.
I have long suspected that deGrasse refers to his head
Why is it always violence with these regressives. One wants to take him behind the school gym, another one grab him by the crotch. Are they so unable to conduct a convincing conversation that they need to resort to violence to get their opponents to concede the point?
Yes, leftists ALWAYS resort to violence, and their opponents don’t concede anything, they end up in “camps” or dead. History of the last 150 years clearly shows this to be fact.
Indeed 2hotel9 Just like all those Lefty Nazis in the 30s and 40s along with lefty Fascists in Spain, Italy and Portugal killing and imprisoning people. You may find that it is not whether they are left or right that governs how they act, it is whether they are extremist or not. Extremists tend to act in the same way whatever their political or religious persuation.
Fascists are a form of socialism. Always have been, always will be.
Gareth Phillips: “Indeed 2hotel9 Just like all those Lefty Nazis”
Yes, Gareth.
Nazis are Lefties. That’s why they called themselves the NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the German National Socialist Workers’ Party.
Fascists are Socialists too, as are Communists.
You really need to study some history.
NDT mistakes being passionate about a subject with actually being knowledgeable about it; a mistake Climate Alarmists of all stripes continually make. The other mistake he, and Climate Advocates make is that they think the problem is one of communication. Since screaming and yelling about it haven’t worked, maybe (they think) it’s time to start physically assaulting them, to get their attention.
The guttless Tyson who will categorically not say and/or admit that he is an atheist wants to go tough on something, or someone, for once in his life. And this time it didn’t take him 50 years to make the call, but only 2 weeks… Wow Neil, got a new set of balls or something?
So, Dr. Tyson. If Earth is as sensitive to added CO2 as global warming advocates claim, why is it still here?
Considering Earth is currently in an ice age, with both poles frozen, and during the last 550 million years, that condition has only prevailed for only 5 percent of that time, how has Earth and life survived the other 95 percent of the time when the poles were not frozen?
If 2 degrees C is the threshold beyond which we dare not step, how did Earth survive 150 million years (Mesozoic) with an average temperature 10C higher than today?
If 500ppm is a deadly CO2 threshold for earth’s survival, how has this planet survived 90 % of the past 550 million years when CO2 levels ranged from 5 to 10 times higher?
Following truly monumental events, like the eruption of the Siberian Traps or the Deccan Traps, why didn’t Earth burn to a cinder and cremate all life?
As a scientist, how do you justify advocating policy based on unproven and erroneous computer models bolstered by emotion and promoted by fear?
Black science guy should stay out of politics given he cannot comprehend we live under a constitutional represenative republic with the only semblance to a democracy is the election of congressional representatives. As originally drafted, the senate is appointed by the states and was to give states equal power. After a few states failed to appoint, senators were chosen by popular vote.
Now back to BSG..grabbing Trump by the crotch? I’ve lost any remaining respect for the pop sci guy.
Kieth J.
“Black science guy should stay out of politics…….”
So it’s Ok for White Millionaire to behave as he likes, but black scientists need to behave themselves? No need to ask who you voted for!
Notice how the socialist just assumes that those who disagree with him are evil.
Jumping to conclusions there Mark. I did not mention good or evil, I just suggested a comparison. But now you mention it, here is something I know you will be interested in. It from todays Daily Telegraph, a UK right of centre broadsheet. They were given exclusive access to Mr Trumps new team.
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategists stated that :
“Darkness is good, Darth Vader, Satan, that is real power.”
Well done all you US far right evangelicals. You not only ignored the rising darkness, you voted for it.
Nicely taken out of context there, Gareth!
Why did you not bother with the whole quotation and forget the “given he cannot comprehend we live under a constitutional represenative republic with the only semblance to a democracy is the election of congressional representatives.” bit?
Really, you’re just full of fauxindignation, like all Lefties, right?
Implying that someone is a racist isn’t the same as implying that they are evil?
Nice evasion there.
As to the Daily Telegraph being center right, most of you Europeans consider socialists to be right wing.
As to your final comment, that just goes to show that you are so far to the left that you have lost all ability to judge anyone who isn’t part of your left wing nut house.
Gareth,
you really should try to at least get details correct.
First, there’s the Daily Mail, and the Telegraph. There is no Daily Telegraph.
Second, the quote was not spoken to UK reporters who you declared were “given exclusive access to Trump’s new team”. It was given during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Here’s the entire quote:
But he added: “Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only helps us when they (liberals and the media) get it wrong. When they’re blind to who we are and what we’re doing.”
And finally, Mr. Bannon was not on the ballot, so not one far right evangelical voted for him. And it took far more than the “far right evangelical vote” to put Mr. Trump in the White House. Stop using your emotions and personal assumptions to comment here. Stick to reason, facts, and correct details or you’ll gain zero respect here.
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I didn’t create the meme ” black science guy”..it has been around for quite some time.
My point on his conplete misunderstanding of the republic still stands on solid footing.
Why does CNN still have the communist Van Jones on? He was let go from the White House because people (Glenn Beck) found out he was a communist, not because of the reason the White Hose stated:
http://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/van-jones-resigns-amid-controversy-026797
“In October 2005 Jones said he was “a rowdy nationalist on April 28th”[13] before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.”
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
And:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/08/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-says-van-jones-avowed-communist/
When Tyson calls the US a democracy, I know he hasn’t done enough research.
So what? I want to repeatedly bang NdGT’s depleted uranium-dense skull against a blackboard until the halfwit understands what a null hypothesis is and what does and does not constitute a refutation of that null. But whatever – we don’t always get what we want in life.
If brains was dynamite, Neil wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
(old southern saying which seems appropriate at this juncture)
I don’t know what it is about southern culture, but they sure knew how to insult you with style.
Bless his heart.