Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon & Breitbart – Bill Nye wants to “engage everybody”, get everyone on board his global warming action bandwagon by punishing “hillbillies” and imposing economic sanctions on red states which don’t comply with his climate demands.
Bill Nye: Blue States Will ‘Impose Economic Sanctions’ Against Climate Change-Denying States
… Nye said, “Only 40 percent of people in the U.S. think that Congress should be addressing this and that’s because certain conservative groups, especially from the fossil fuel industry, have been very successful in introducing the idea that scientific uncertainty, plus or minus two percent, is the same as plus or minus 100 percent.”
He continued, “There’s a lot of emphasis from conservatives on what are writ-large states rights. Just watch out, conservatives, if states rights include California, Illinois, New York — these places that, where people voted in a progressive fashion — watch out if all those places start to address climate change and then impose economic sanctions, either overtly or by default, on places that have not embraced the work that needs to be done. Then you’ll end up with this states rights working the other way.”
He added, “We’ve got to remind people that we’re all in this together. The people I think about all the time are what are eloquently stated as the hillbillies. We want to engage everybody. Not working to address climate change is in no one’s best interest. It is not in the best interest, especially of your children and grandchildren. …
Read more (includes a video): http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/12/29/bill-nye-blue-states-will-impose-economic-sanctions-climate-change-denying-states/
In the video Bill Nye also said “we’ve got to get everybody working together, the same way people were working together in world war 2“. Bill Nye’s plan for getting people to work together, for achieving unity, is to call people names and threaten economic war against states which don’t embrace his policy recommendations.
My question – if Bill Nye really believes renewables are cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuels, why does he feel the need to make economic threats and call people names?
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To me, it seems there are professional liars one this planet . . ; )
This is what happens, when zealots and “activists” (the p.c. euphemism for fanatics) hijack science!
They declare war on skeptics becaus they are in possession of the only “true” truth!
In the frontline you will always find convinced, quasi religious believers like Bill Nye, whose expertise as engineer makes him omniscientl!
Bill Nye the denier guy. What’s next Bill? A “final solution” to the climate skeptics problem?
Actually Nye is not only a faux scientist but apparently he is also ignorant of the constitution.
Like Captain Queeg on the stand, if a climate fanatic speaks long enough their madness, ignorance and hatred shows through.
Nye has spoken more than long eniugh.
https://youtu.be/CLUZ0Nv7UH4
I would say Bill Nye also has steel balls but then does he really have any balls at all?
Either way he will be the last of his line so who really cares?
He knows not what he does. He didn’t come up with that economic warfare idea – he’s a mouthpiece for someone else.
The Interstate Commerce Clause will have a few things to say about Nye’s latest plan to take over the world.
https://youtu.be/mYvAYwpUDv8
STOP! This is real, serial!
I think that was already attempted with the clean power plan. The new tax reform plan will hit wealthy folks in certain high tax blue states (CA, NY, CT and IL) pretty hard however.
Tax and spend leftys at the state and local levels have essentially been subsidized by the Federal Gov through the tax deductions. This is a positive development in my opinion. Local policies that are economically invalid and furthering the left’s agenda will no longer be painless. It probably will result in an acceleration of the exodus of the ownership class from these states, and/or a change in voting habits and politicians.
If nothing else, it’s going to hit those companies that have moved their headquarters to high tax states, very hard.
Its nearly that time down here, so..
Happy New Year to all those who want it. 🙂
May the CO2 be with you in all its glorious life-giving forms…… especially bubbles. 🙂
And may America continue to keep holding all the Trump cards. 🙂
Happy New year to you AndyG55.
Here in Indiana I got up at 03:30. Temp was -2 F. Three hours later it was 2 deg F. Total darkness but the temp climbed 4 deg. in 3 hours. Why? It’s about to snow! A little clipper coming down from the NW. Let’s see CO2 do that!
I just watched Earth from Space on SBS or whatever it was called, and it was actually OK…..until the last 5 minutes, and I lost interest. Yup! Humans are bad, CO2 is the problem. Even though they demonstrate that CO2 is a minor driver of anything. Water is the major driver of everything.
Happy NY to you and yours Andy. An hour to go, and my wife is working a night shift!
Happy New Year Andy!…and may all your Wadhams be white
What is funny is that taxes and debt loads have already been running people and businesses out of the Blue states Nye wants to impose sanctions on the other states. Once the effects of the new tax bill kick in and start hurting it is reasonable to assume that exodus will increase.
Taxes will hit the elites because they don’t do anything productive to deduct expenses from. Also enriching oneself off the taxpayer is an industry in peril. A couple of unit downloads of wink-wink consultants to government and the greenback-snorting Greens will be on the street hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-diming it.
Trump has to be sure to make anything going against government policy non deductible for tax purposes. Let’s see how generous and altruistic these “progressives” are in their regressive tailspin. Bloomberg gave 5he UN 15 million chump change. He didnt get any followers. He wont be pitching in to make up 350 big ones Trump slashed from the UN contribution.
Cutting cash flow to elites, disallowing tax breaks to non charitable charitable foundations and private donors, “consultants” NGOs, regulations experts-accountants and other diddling middling rip off artists – hey, he’s going to balance the budget, too!
“but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;” US Constitution Article 1 Section 8
Numpty needs to learn to read before coming up with a socio-economic plan…..
Did Bill Nye miss the fact that it’s 2017, not 1789 and we are now ruled by the Constitution and not the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union? Under the latter States could do what he wants under the Constitution they cannot.
This Nye person has the attitude of an islamist. Nothing less.
TO George E.Smith –
Your comment about the senate not being a representative body (each person having their vote acknowledged) is correct. However, until a constitutional amendment was passed the senate was designed to represent the States – with the senators elected by the state governing bodies and not a popular contest. There was a constitutional amendment that changed that in the 1950s – 1960s. Until that the senate had one vote – one person as the rule.
Might be nice to go back to that.
That 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913. And I agree we NEED to go back to that.
The 17th amendment was ratified in 1913. Popular votes apply to all national elections as of of Nov. 1914.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The popular vote doesn’t apply to the presidential election.
Tea baggers, Hillbillies, Deniers, Deplorables, Clingers, gun nuts, Racists, Sexists, Homophobes, Islamophobes, Neo-Nazis, etc, etc, etc.
And on and on it goes in a seemingly never ending quest to adapt or make up new words to insult.
Most leftists are remarkably similar to rebellious, obnoxious teenagers.
First I thought this is the last straw to proof him a dyed in the wool, knuckle dragging Eco-Nazi , but then I realized this can’t be true! These are misinformed idiots, but he is doubtlessly smart enough to know that the bovine mature he utters is beyond any reason. He can’t be THAT dumb! It is pure hatred and malice against anybody who doesn’t agree the sun shines out of end of his digestion tract.
That would be OK (Well, more likely tolerable for the very patient ones), if he wouldn’t be so influential, especial to young gullible intellectually vulnerable people.
However, HNY to everyone on this blog! Got to get out now to shovel some global warming off my drive way.
Mr. Nye is an actor. Proving that he doesn’t understand political science either is not a good idea.
It is not uncertain that this is not a small world after all.
I have a better idea – all those climate concerned states should form a union and secede from the United States. They should call their new nation the Climate Confederacy, and since Blacks are notoriously unconcerned about global warming (a fact strenuously avoided mention of by left wingers) they should be banned from the new nation. Their main source of income will be in renting out their no-longer-illegal aliens as servants, laborers, and cleanup folks to the states still in the Union, and other nations (this would not represent much of a change.). They should then nationalize the Tesla Motor Company and force it to produce electric volkswagons (people’s cars) , using the abundent cheap alien labor. Bill Nye, of course, will be Secretary of Science and proclaim scientific truths, upon demand. The Office of Propaganda will consist of the LA Times, the NY Times, the Wash Post, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS. They will join the Paris Climate Treaty, not as a donor country but as a recipient nation – an extra source of income. The country will draft all able bodied men/transgenders,sexual whatevers into the Forest Fire Fighting Corps (the FFF). They must supply their own buckets and hoses.
The physical properties of every sphere are the same…cooler on one side, warmer on the other, and rotating spheres exposed to the sun are in a constant state of change. Claiming that the sphere is now “warmer” or “cooler” is as irrelevant to reality as thinking that the earth is flat.
Nye’s idea of sanctions are frequent blackouts, tripling of electric bills, business closures due to high electric costs, large medical bills for those who can ill afford heat and food.
What was his mother thinking…
Bill Nye the Clueless Guy:
Clueless about the science
Clueless about logic
Clueless about the Constitution
Clueless about Skeptics/Climate Realists
Clueless about economics
Clueless about why CAGW is losing the Climate War
Etc. Etc.
He is one of the finest examples of the DK Syndrome ever.
What a nasty man. Insulting those who aren’t at his dinner parties and demanding civil war in the USA.
Great pic with the head post.
Bill Nye gives that “go ahead, make my day” look while wearing his cute little bow tie and leaves all the “hillbillies” shaking in their boots …. with laughter!
Please don’t pat him on the top of the head ’cause he means business!
It wasn’t the fossil fuel industry influencing us hillbillies. It was the rebranding of the term global warming, the NOAA falsification of surface temps, the 10+ year lack of major hurricane landfall, and the failure of every alarmist prediction over the past 20 years to occur. Maybe in another 20 years, the rest of the US will see climate change for the snake oil that it is.
Perhaps Bill and the alarmists could outline the actual percentage by which they believe the climate has changed?
It would be helpful to know in advance of any debate.
You wonder how many skeptics are as or more qualified on the subject, or a science-based field in general as Bill Nye. As a fellow ME, I’d like to see a just a list of how many of his skeptical peers he likes to call “hillbillies”. Granted, most of us haven’t been paid to make balloon animals on a kid’s show.
Trofim Lysenko would be proud of what Bill Nye and David Suzuki are peddling these days.
“I’d like to see a just a list of how many”…should be “I’d like to see a list of just how many…”
My second cup of coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. 😉
Bill, the US runs on democratic principles. So if only 40% of the citizens think Congress should be addressing climate change, meaning 60% don’t think they should be, then the 40% lose. Also, I believe some states passing laws that imposing economic sanctions overtly or by default would be a violation of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, meaning those states would likely lose if they tried to impose their ‘progressive’ ideas on other states.