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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Check the population numbers for those Blue States. They tend to be losing population due to the policies implemented by the liberals running them.
There already is an economic war between the blue and red states and the blue states are losing.
Here’s the problem though. These people don’t change their minds when they leave… they do their damnedest to turn their new place into the same “utopia” they just left. It’s not so much fleeing the insanity, it’s infection.
Oh Dear! Now I’m a Deplorable Hillbilly!
I’m sooooo ‘triggered’, I’m going to pour a second cup of covfefe and go feed the squirrels.
Howdy J. Dem squirrels make mighty fine vittles.
Squirrel can’t hold a candle to possum. Yum !
Fresh road kill, anyone?
What’s the difference between a hillbilly and a thermobilly? … Hillbillies eat the possum. Thermobillies protect the possum as an endangered species threatened by human-caused, CO2-heat-inducing climate change.
Bill Nye use to be a scientist, he realises that as in any other natural process so in the lunacy stakes there are different degrees of intensity. As a man of a considerable self assurance and arrogance he will not miss the opportunity to climb up the path of intellectual lunacy until he is at the pinnacle, well above any other lunatic, and there are many, it is a matter of the personal prestige for him.
He has to contend with “Doctor” David Suzuki, who is in his 80s now and declared in his 30s that “humans are the same as maggots.” It went downhill from there while his income skyrocketed, because as any keen observer knows, crazy is catching.
BTW guys, talk is cheap, actions speak louder. PLEASE consider signing my petition to the Government of Canada:
https://www.change.org/p/the-honourable-james-gordon-carr-minister-of-natural-resources-open-letter-to-the-government-of-canada-re-climate-change.
If you feel there is something wrong with it, I am open to suggestions as to how to improve it.
Signed. Thank you, Michael.
To say “renewable” intermittent grids are “cheaper and more reliable” is preposterous. But then we’re talking about Bill Nye.
Today, the situation is so serious that the GW skeptics should be punished personally, and over time the penalties will only increase. Of course, only the responsible politicians are concerned, because in these positions idiocy is no longer tolerable.
Is this sarcasm? If not, rest assured: we will fight back.
“We’ll be the victims of irrational ideology. They will try to dictate to us how to live, what to do, how to behave. How to eat, travel, and what my children should have. This is something that we who lived in the communist era for most of our lives feel very strongly about. We are very sensitive in this respect. And we see various similarities in their way of arguing or not arguing. In their way of pushing ahead ideas regardless of rational counter-arguments.”
– Vaclav Klaus.
Delightful – we are to have our rights stripped away because we don’t agree with Mihaly.
Those who are not skeptic should prove so by presenting a paper showing empirically that CO2 causes warming in our convective atmosphere.
If you cannot do so, you must be either a religious kook for believing in a fantasy, or a closet skeptic.
Which are you Mihaly?
I did not say anything wrong, it is necessary to understand that there may be an emergency in the course of history, for example, during the Second World War all the Germans had been deported in England and this was not a fascism, also.
On the other hand, there is no need to prove everything if there is a high risk, politicians have decided to ban freons, so scientists have still asked for research.
Otherwise, my comment was not intended as a proposal but as a political forecast.
So Mihaly,
… you only have your worthless opinion and an overdose from some hallucinogenic substance…
mixed with a socialist totalitarian “I am the greatest” non-personality.
Crawl back under your rock. !
Now I notice that there is no comment to support on Nye, obviously I missed in the fools’ house, sorry.
Acting without evidence is idiocy. Taking drastic measures just because someone is screaming that there is a danger is idiocy.
Then again, most people who believe that government is the solution to all problems are idiots.
I just repeat. There is no need to prove everything if there is a high risk, politicians have decided to ban freons, so scientists have still asked for research. Then if our grandchildren are to drown in a few years, will we tell them that there was not enough evidence?
Hey, Nye! You idiot!!! I live in Illinois, you psychotic birdbrain. Just try sanctioning me or anyone else. I dare you!!! I double dog dare you! If you weren’t so utterly incompetent, you might not be so alarmingly stupid. You moronic loon. If you had a brain, which you don’t, you’d know when to shut your stupid mouth.
Go ahead, try to sanction me, Nye. Make my day.
Take a chill pill Sara. He thinks Illinois is a blue state and will be doing the sanctioning of the other states in the Midwest that are growing while Illinois stagnates. Bill thinks because Chicago is solidly blue, the rest of the state is condemned to the idiotic policies that keeps Chicago on the brink of insolvency, while dealing with rampant crime.
Let Nye speak all he wants. Give him the largest possible megaphone. The working class in middle America does not share his values, and his pejoratives, do not convince them he is right. All the things that Nye wants to diminish and take away from them, are the things they know are important to them. They do not have the required time and skills to debunk the Onion of Lies that the left uses to lure them to the dark-side. Start calling them names, and they will not forget that, on election day.
Bill thinks it is smart to double-down on the “Deplorables” insult. Because insulting people is such an effective way to convince them you have their best interest at the top of your agenda.
When people don’t respect your “science-guy” shtick anymore, directing negative pejoratives at them will not make it better. And it shows a very low IQ that he thinks that it would.
That “deplorable” quote of Hillary’s may well have been the straw that broke the back of Hillary’s campaign.
Never has so tone deaf a politician come so far in our Republic. It took a concerted effort by the DNC to keep Dean from winning, as revealed in a recent book.
I had several acquaintances who were cultural Democrats, That is they voted Democrat more because that is what their family has always done. In recent years they have been getting more and more disatisfied with the direction their party had been going. Many of them were sympathetic with Trump’s stated positions, but they still couldn’t bring themselves to actually pull the lever for one of them Republicans.
When Hillary described those who support Trump and his positions as deplorable, they realized at last what the Democrat leadership actually thought regarding them and people like them.
Most of them will not be returning to the Democrat column any time soon.
Bill Nye is just blowing smoke, Sara. Don’t take him seriously.
Bill Nye must be talking about Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy when he talks about how we all worked together because a world without oil would result in incredible death by starvation, no ambulances, no fire engines, no transport for goods, drug shortages, 80% of clothing gone, frozen people everywhere and of course the poor, old, children and disabled would pay the highest price. His ideas would make Hitler blush.
I couldn’t think of anything constructive to say, so I guess I’ll just STFU.
Bill Nye is living proof that there is no limit to human stupidity. Not sure if Einstein actually said this but if he had ever heard Nye he probably would have.
OMG. His economic role models include “progressive” Illinois?? I’m sure TX would be terrified at being sanctioned.
And the People’s Republic of CA? The people with the significant advantage of containing Silicon Valley but are nonetheless functionally bankrupt, and unable to provide their People with water and power – much of which is produced outside state lines. If AZ closed the inter connector, they would be swamped by refugees.
“The people I think about all the time are what are eloquently stated as the hillbillies.”
Whatever happened to deplorables Bill? Struggling with ADHD mate. Make up your mind with the global warming, climate change, extreme weather, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, yada, yada….
I am reminded that George Washington went to war against the original hillbillies, US version. They had been his most effective troops in the revolutionry war, being sharpshooters with their Kentucky Long Rifles. They also suffered for this, because British counter-tactics were more effective than Yankees admit. Bayonets are fearsome weapons at close range in the woods.
Washington was sent to collect tax from the hill-williams’ whisky sales, the only cash they ever saw. Not like the Swamp dwellers of the center of power. jUST LIKE NOW, UNTIL TRUMP….
Democrat-controlled states are already in economic battle, because they’re wasting money on high-price energy. They’re volunteering to lose.
Who is “we” ? What is “this” … that “we” are all in ?
“We” must be an imaginary population that exists only in the mind of the “science guy” (now science-fiction guy). “This” must be an imaginary crisis that exists only in the imaginary population that exists only in the mind of the science-fiction guy.
It is supremely arrogant to picture every living human as a part of this “we”, to say nothing of supremely ignorant.
Bill, please start studying science again, in order to reclaim some dignity outside of your own imagination. Obviously, I do not have any respect for you, … but I could, if you represented any reasonable vestige of “science”.
Bring on legal action. Then we will have to finally have a full and open debate. Nye will have to find some actual evidence to support the hypothesis.
Will he do a Michael Mann and refuse to hand over evidence and hope the flagrant contempt of court is ignored?
Hopefully Nye finds himself destroyed by his own stupidity.
Bring it on.
When do the settled pseudoscience lynchings begin?
Go Bill!
So Billy’s contribution to new year peace and goodwill is to try to start the US civil war 2.0?
What a WKNAER!
Speaking of WWII, Bill should be careful what he asks for.
Here is my plan if given wartime powers to reduce ghg.
Day one, runback fossil power plants to 50% and close all gas stations.
Day two, issue ration cards to all police, military, power company workers, and first responders. Send them out to turn off power after checking that no one would die without power. Starting with the rich and powerful.
Day three, start issuing ration cars for power and gas. The first issued would be those that can show a pay stub for an income less than $40k. One qualifying question. Are you skeptical of CAGW claims requiring a police state?
The net result is the likes of Bull Nye, Al Gore, Obama, and the Clintons will have to leave the country to get energy. Yes, they will have to walk and I hope it is really cold.
Fascinating how class based your solution is.
Why is it that for some people, no matter what the problem, striking out at those who have more than they do is always part of the solution?
What???
Since when are hypocrites a class of people?
While my solution may be over the top, it is my opinion that the last person on his block to get power restored after a natural disaster should be the CEO of the power company.
There is a good reason too. It is his professional responsibility.
I even have a funny story on that score. After an ice storm, many were without power after several days. Our utility restored power cliquey because damage was less severe than areas farther north. Watching the news, the focus was on those without power.
One of our engineers lived in a high end subdivision that included a predominate politician. We were still surprised that he was without power and he was surprised that the rest of us has power restored quickly.
Turns out no one called that they had lost power.
Renewable energy is a fine thing on a personal basis. If you don’t want to buy power from the local energy company, fine! Make your own. But no one should be forced to embrace it. I use renewable energy, the nearest power lines are over a mile away as the crow flies. But i also use gasoline when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
California wants to impose sanctions on me? Fine. Remind me not to buy any firewood from California…..
I am an amateur observer, and I have more of a grasp on climate than Bow-tie-Nye. I have a better grasp of reality in general than him as well from what I have seen from him of late.
Stay warm! Happy New Year!
He gets creepier and creepier with time.
I wonder if he will finally lose it like that self-proclaimed “climate jester” from a few years back?
Surely when the difference between actual and claimed man made warming is less than one percent anyway then an error of two per cent is a two hundred percent error on the warming effects.
““We’ve got to remind people that we’re all in this together.”
It won’t matter, CO2-wise, if we in the U.S. reduce our emissions, because 75% of the world’s countries aren’t planning to do likewise—unless they get gobs of cash from us. Are such donations part of what Nye ideplores us for not commiting to, as well auto faster emissions reductions? Interviewers should ask him that.
Nye might (likely) respond, “I want the U.S. to abide by the Paris Accord.” That would be a non-responsive response, because that accord commits us, as a developed country, to doing both. But it would be a good deflection, because most people who haven’t been paying attention think of the accord as only an agreement to reduce emissions by signatories. (Actually it doesn’t commit developing countries even to that.)
Bill Nye The Science Guy; Catastrophic Ice-Age Averted, Man-Made CO2 Saved Mankind
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/bill-nye-the-science-guy-catastrophic-ice-age-averted-man-made-co2-saved-mankind/
Bill Nye “Is Not The Right” Guy Would Prefer an Ice Age Over the Current Warming
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/bill-nye-is-not-the-right-guy-would-prefer-an-ice-age-over-the-current-warming/
Bill Nye Gets Eaten By the Crocodile
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/bill-nye-gets-eaten-by-the-crocodile/
The bottom line is that the Federal gov. regulates commerce between the states, which means one state can’t impose economic sanctions on other states. Bill Nye is no just sub par as a scientist, he has no furure as a Constitutional Scholar.