Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bill Nye seems to think he has failed to reach people with his demand for urgent action on climate change, but he blames others for creating the conditions which led to his failure.
Bill Nye on his climate change education efforts: “I am a failure”
“The Science Guy” looks back on his 1990s TV show, and why climate change education has not reflected policy change
Between hosting “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and serving as CEO of The Planetary Society, Bill Nye’s career as a science educator means he is also, inherently, an activist when it comes to combating climate change.
Nye joined Jeremy Binckes on “Salon Talks” to discuss his efforts raising awareness around climate change over the years, and to scoop a new documentary film that chronicles his rise from lively children’s show host to national science defender and advocate.
“I am a failure!” Nye exclaimed when reflecting back on the shows he created over two decades ago about the Earth’s warming.
Nye blamed the fossil fuel industry for creating the schism between climate deniers and believers, saying “they have worked so hard to introduce doubt.” He went on to say that he believed climate change was discovered in the 1970s, “and we’ve done virtually nothing about it all this time.”
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Read more: https://www.salon.com/2017/10/23/bill-nye-on-his-climate-change-education-efforts-i-am-a-failure/
Every time you read an assertion that people only doubt because the “fossil fuel industry” has created doubt, in my opinion you are seeing first hand the utter contempt climate enthusiasts have for people’s ability to weigh the evidence for themselves.
The reality is climate enthusiasts have destroyed their own credibility, with their outrageous omissions of adverse data, with their barrage of painfully wrong predictions over the years.
How many hilariously broken “end of snow” predictions did the fossil fuel industry sponsor? How many ice free arctic deadlines have come and gone?
If climate enthusiasts want their claims to be treated seriously, they need to start getting things right once in a while.
Yes, you are a liar too Bill!
No, no keep going Bill Nye. You’re almost there in producing the opposite public opinion, one false argument and faked CO2 science experiment at a time.
One has to wonder if Carl Sagan knew he was leaving the debate and knew he lost it, so he planted someone he knew would fail in his position of Climate Warrior. His background would give anyone opposed to the climate orthodoxy a wide opening, and his stupidity would finish him off.
If you ever watched any Monty Python stuff, you know what absurdism is.
Watching inflexible mopes like Nye and Mann, who are guarding their bank accounts as well as their turf, is like watching someone dig his hole deeper. Whatever will they do when people stop listening to them? Oh, wait – that’s starting to happen, isn’t it?
Bill Nye will never change even if the world drops into a “little ice age”. It would destroy his world view.
….And his speaking fee income
DougJ: there will be
no upcoming “little ice
ages.” co2 will dominate
for many many decades (says
physics)
The “science guy” is a pseudoscience guy. This may be connected to his failure.
Above all, B. Nye needs airtime.
Attention. Blogs,
tweets, anything at all.
this blog just gave him
that oxygen.
E = h (nu), or h f if you like. I do consider Einstein also said E = mc^2
So the … Peak Spectral Radiance ….