Bill Nye …the Foul Mouthed Science Guy

Gifted and very charismatic actor. Knows a lot about many scientific topics. Uses that to fraudulently present himself as an authority on climate science.

Nye has turned into an angry activist that has completely abandoned authentic climate science to push the agenda. He is great at repeating really, really scary things, like this volatile statement that he made in the interview above:

“By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees,” Nye said. “What I’m saying is the planet’s on f***ing fire.”

There’s no legit science that supports that outrageous statement. Turns out, that a few years ago, Nye had a golden opportunity to display his knowledge in this field, atmospheric science, on live television, when he was asked for an opinion during the DeflateGate scandal.

Nye showed that his scientific expertise(while wonderful for presenting cool stuff for kids) does NOT extend into the field of climate or atmospheric science.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015
“Bill Nye Drops the Ball on DeflateGate”

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/01/bill-nye-drops-ball-on-deflategate.html

“Whether you believe Belicheck or not, one statement in the above video is patently, totally, completely, unabashedly, embarrassingly false. It’s Nye’s claim that, ” . . . to really change the pressure in the ball, you need one of these – the inflation needle.”

“In one flip comment, Nye undermines the cool conversation we’ve all been having while totally discounting a whole lot of physics. The fact is you can change the relative pressure in the ball by changing the temperature of the gas inside, by changing the properties of the the material the ball is made of (getting it wet and potentially making it more stretchy, perhaps), and changing the pressure of the atmosphere outside the ball (can you say “barometer,” Mr. Nye?)”

“It’s possible that none of these factors explain away DeflateGate, but to unimaginatively dismiss them the way Nye did utterly undermines his cred as a science educator. Really?!?!? All it takes for him to go totally anti-science on us is to be a fan of the Seahawks?

“Please, Mr. Nye, step back, think about what you did for a moment, and then try again.”

Since the vast majority of people have never heard of the ideal gas law, should we give Nye a break for not explaining it or at least using the principles of the ideal gas law in his explanation?

Yeah right. The entire point of interviewing Nye on that topic was that he presents himself as an authority on it. We expect him to at least understand, THE most basic principle (PV=nRT) that related to changes in the pressure of a football that occur without the intervention of a human with an air pump or needle………..he had no clue!

This was sort of like a heart doctor not understanding blood pressure and how it affects their patients health.(-:

Didn’t Bret Harte write a famous poem that featured this cheating ne’er-do-well?

The video at the top of this post is about the stupidest thing I’ve watched–EVER! Thanks CTM, that’s 19 minutes 27 seconds I’ll never get back. (Actually, I stopped watching at 6 minutes 8 seconds, but it felt longer.)

Jim