Watch the video at around the 18:30 minute mark. Use slider if needed.
HT/Michael Mann (and Willie Soon)
Bill Nye goes off the rails with F-bombs in a short video on the “crisis” of global warming.
With this video, he’s completed his credibility transition from “science guy” to foul-mouthed comedian.
Added: Let’s not forget this…
While some people marvel over the f-word utterances of Bill Nye regarding climate change, it’s important to remember than when it came to actual climate science, Bill faked the experiment. That’s right, he lied, and we caught him red-handed.
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Bill Nye is to science what witch doctors are to medicine.
Well that was a waste of 11 minutes waiting for the Nye portion and a waste of 19 minutes for HBO
Fake comedian posing as fake talk show host interviews fake scientist about fake science.
Glad I didn’t stay up to watch, or waste PVR space…
And this would be why so many people have cut their cables . . .
Bill Nye the science lie. The guy who could not even design an CO2 experiment for Al Gore’s film which worked , so they had to FAKE the result with post production editing of the thermometer.
Nye is a children’s TV clown character, NOT a scientist.
And he’s not any good at either.
Neither was Don Herbert but at least he was a general science major and bomber pilot before he became Mr WIzard.
Greg, the key difference is that Broadcast (didn’t have cable back then) News, and subsequently policy makers didn’t turn to him as a Subject Matter Expert on global science issues requiring establishment of public policy.
Back then the adults knew the difference between real scientists and Children’s TV Clown Characters. Today not so much. Our Capitol in DC has taken on many aspects of an over sized day care center. And it might be funny if we hadn’t given these overgrown children the ability to control our lives. They are exponentially more likely to cause an extinction event in 12 years than Global Warm…aahhh Climate Change.
He never was a real scientist, that is why he has to wear a silly tie : great scientists are ( allegedly ) often eccentric , so if you were an eccentric tie you must be a scientific authority. QED.
That logic may work for infants but grown-ups should be more questioning.
Note that “science guy” does not mean he is even claiming to be a scientist. It does not actually mean anything: which is why it was chosen as his job description.
He’s no Mr. Wizard, that’s for sure. Mr. Green Jeans had a better grasp of science.
100% better show for kids (my son was growing up in the 90s, I had to watch this, might as well watch something good):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106367/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Mr. Green Jeans had a better grasp of science
Don’t forget Ranger Hal.
What Captain Kangaroo is to Maritime Navigation
Witch Doctors in Washington State:
https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/washingtons-100-clean-electricity-bill-becomes-law/
The end is Nye.
actually…
The end is totalitarianism.
OMG … who is John Oliver? A late night comedian? I haven’t listened to one of them since David Letterman stopped being funny in about 1981. Who is this twit who attempts to make “comedy” out of an hour-long propaganda piece on “incentivizing” (read: taxing the shit out of essential energy) “green” behaviour. Hint: Smart people use the correct term … dis-incentivizing.
However, I have to admit that Bill NYE is a far better comedian than “science guy”. He’s already got the comedic “look”. The sort of scary clown look that would scare small children watching a kids “science” program.
They even spread disinformation about their hero, Joseph Stalin … just to throw all the refugees of communism off their trail. Ha ha ha … Stalin or the Hamburgler … ha ha ha … soooo funny. Sadly, only those with a proper education would understand the ghoulish irony in that comparison, since Stalin’s communist policies caused 20M people to starve to death. People who truly would have welcomed Capitalism’s iconic Hamburgler cartoon figure delivering MacDonalds hamburgers to the starving masses of the Soviet Union. These ghouls would eliminate the fossil fuels that FEED the entire world and have freed nearly every soul on the planet from starvation. Yeah, the “comedy writers” for this twit of a comedian don’t even understand the depravity of their “joke”.
And these are the people who would take control of energy policy? Agriculture policy? Fiscal policy? God save our children.
David Letterman stopped being funny in 1981???
I thought David Letterman stopped being funny on April 12, 1947
Don’t you have to actually be funny at some point in order to stop being funny?
Letterman had a couple of funny bits with Mujibur and Sirajul, IIRC.
And the guy under the seats, aka Chris Elliot.
John Oliver is another example of “Revenge of the Nerds”.
These late-night politicians (no longer comedians) are the guys who got bullied as kids, and now they have their “revenge”, such as it is. Their audience have even more fake victimhood.
Basically, he has a week to write the show, a room full of writers, and the edit button. He will ALWAYS look smarter (to his audience), than his targets.
That the universe doesn’t exactly work this way is a puzzle to his viewers, and reality is actually painful to them.
“…He will ALWAYS look smarter (to his audience), than his targets…”
The British accent sounds sophisticated to a certain group of Americans and therefore makes him appear smart and intellectual.
Trevor Noah with his South African accent has a similar appeal.
“The British accent sounds sophisticated to a certain group of Americans and therefore makes him appear smart and intellectual.”
Indeed. There was a M*A*S*H* episode where Winchester detects the British accent of a visiting soldier, tries to impress the soldier with all his upper-class Boston charm…then gets smacked back when it turns out the soldier is lower class.
“You’ve been outclassed by the son of a bloody butler!”
https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/U.N.,_the_Night_and_the_Music_(TV_series_episode)
(Although my original point is that while some talk show hosts might actually be highly intelligent, the fact that they appear to be so is because they have a staff of writers, and most importantly, the edit button. I mean, I love Alex Trebek, but its not as if he actually knows, or needs to know, all the answers).
Smart conservatives who feel compelled to actually put themselves into the line of fire as such should ensure they tape themselves…)
Mentally disturbed people have a right to express themselves. Others have a right not to listen to them.
Mmmm, “Video unavailable” for me.
Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDwrwCtVss
Set VPN to U.S. or N. America
same here from Aus;-( cant even see on youtube direct either
VPN to Singapore in Australia will get you past Australian Government censorship, epic browser will give you vpn and blockers.
nzpete May 13, 2019 at 10:46 pm
…. Mmmm, “Video unavailable” for me.
…. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDwrwCtVss
EU Article 13 ( the new Copyright Directive/censorship directive) already kick in?
They’ve taken down the video, this is piece of it on the five..
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6036263199001/?playlist_id=1040983441001#sp=show-clips
My dad had a term for pill-pushing homeopaths who preyed on unwary hapless cure seekers: “quack”. Bill Nye is a quack scientist.
No, Bill Nye is not any kind of scientist, he is a TV clown for children. He made fun TV explaining basic science for children. He never was a real scientist, that is why he has to wear a silly tie : great scientists are ( allegedly ) often eccentric , so if you were an eccentric tie you must be a great scientist. QED.
That logic may work for infants but grown-ups should be more questioning.
Note that “science guy” does not mean he is even claiming to be a scientist. It does not actually mean anything: which is why it was chosen as his job description.
I wouldn’t call him a comedian. He’s an actor, and not anyone who has anything to do with science or humor.
Apologies again for threadjacking, folks, but the water level in Lake Oroville just passed 889 feet.
This is less than 12 feet from topping the emergency spillway.
The repaired spillway is apparently not being used.
Starting tomorrow night (Tuesday), forecast calls for rain 3 out of 4 coming days.
It appears the emergency spillway will be breached.
Absent word otherwise, one would hope that this is to test integrity of emergency spillway?
They already have tested the spillway, and it works perfectly. There is a team of very smart folks managing that dam, who are keeping a sharp eye out for any trouble, and have the tools to handle any emergencies. Crisis averted.
The sky is falling! …..
They want the lake at or near full capacity. That’s its purpose. As THX1138 said they’ve already tested the spillway and can use it as needed. The emergency spillway is not going to be used because there’s no emergency.
I grew up reading Carl Sagan books and watching “Cosmos”. Carl Sagan must be spinning in his grave the way science has gone down hill, and to have this “science guy” taking his place at the Planetary Society.
Carl Sagan was a Professor at Cornell University when I went there in the early 70’s. I think Bill Nye graduated about 5 years after me, someplace around 1978, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Nye took an astronomy course or two from Sagan. Even if you weren’t taking Sagan’s course it was fun sitting in the back of the room some times. The famous voice. (It was also fun heading across town to Ithaca College and sneaking into Rod Serling’s lectures, another famous voice, from The Twilight Zone TV series).
Perhaps the Planetary Society wanted that baton-passing connection between Professor and Student, Sagan and Nye. Too bad Nye has gone off the deep end after making a name for himself with his “Science Guy” show. Now he’s embarrassing to most of the Cornell Engineering grads I know. But he is merely an entertainer now, and a political one. If he cared about real Science he never would have done that hoax experiment for Al Gore. Seems to have only gotten worse from there.
Bill Nye is a paid clown in a clown suit…. always has been.
Poor Bill, his ‘green’ investments obviously aren’t paying off.
Nice release of CO2 with Mentos… What a loser. Really crop failures, fires, really? Putting Carbon in the air? really? He doesn’t begin to understand science.
Gloom & Doom – Don’t you know? The End is Nigh…
Didn’t you mean “The End is Nye”?
Mr Nye looks a lot like that astronaut guy, Don Pettit. And they both have the same grasp on reality and science.
Don’t you mean Don Knotts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reluctant_Astronaut
What a dickhead.
True. However, he is in a position of influence, and that is a bad thing.
Who does he influence? Other than his fellow travelers, no one takes him seriously anymore.
In schools.
The is the guy who persuaded Trump to run for President!
He should team up with Attenborough. They could do a double act, “Bill and Dave are here to save”
Both of them share the same delusion. They believe sensible people are influenced by their personal anxieties/objectives.
Time is a great leveller…..
“Dave & Bill’s Exultant Adventure”
Dave & Bill’s Extortionate Adventure”
(exultant:
adjective; very happy, especially at someone else’s defeat or failure)
Dave & Bill (unlike Bill & Ted) are only happy if they take something significant away from the other people they meet, during their misadventures.
“With this video, he’s completed his credibility transition from “science guy” to foul-mouthed comedian.”
It wasn’t a long journey.
Bill Nye is stealing Carrot Top’s act.
Jasper Carrot? I don’t think so. But there are many sources of ACTUAL evidence that the man is a paid fool. Fair enough. People vote for “politicians” and think they are being “represented”.
The big difference is that Carrot Top is funny.
It’s hard to believe pulling idiotic stunts like this will result in people taking you and your message seriously.
“With this video, he’s completed his credibility transition from “science guy” to foul-mouthed comedian.”
Except he isn’t funny either.
I don’t think got AOC’s memo [tweet?]. The climate apocalypse was just a joke.
Help me out.
Was it “Cap and Trade” or a “Carbon Tax” that lowered America’s emissions?
And we still have to get over the incredibly silly idea that “Emissions” have any meaning as well.
“With this video, he’s completed his credibility transition from “science guy” to foul-mouthed comedian”
A credibility transition requires some credibility. he hasn’t had any since that “sex junk” video he had on his show (actually he lost most of whatever credibility he ever had long before then, but that was the point he lost the last of any credibility he ever had).
If Billie Boy is so worried about the environment why is he living the Jet Setting Playboy lifestyle? That T studio he is constantly in is the Number ONE cause of Man Caused Globall Warmining!