Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/29/2011 1:00:19 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
So, apparently you can be, like, really enthusiastic about science – a real role model for kids – and still be a complete tool!
Bill Nye proved this point on Fox News today by blathering on at some length about how “tornadoes are almost certainly a consequence” of climate change.
As NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard reports,
“It is indeed telling that ‘The Science Guy’ didn’t once mention the impact of this year’s La Niña on tornado activity which most climatologists and meteorologists on both sides of the global warming debate agree is largely the culprit.”
Then the non-Science Guy seemed to be completely stumped by a question about tornadoes in other countries, and unleashed this stream of blarney, including some completely unrelated linguistic fun:
“Well, there’s not that many other countries that have the configuration of North America to make tornadoes. And the word ‘hurricane,’ you know, is a word coined in the Caribbean, like, so this is a unique, unique area in that regard. We have the Gulf of Mexico. We have this access for cold air from Canada or from the Arctic. And these two things conspire to move the jet stream, and then that helps carry this extra water vapor across this part of the North America. So, it’s a unique place, and you don’t have this kind, you don’t have tornadoes in Norway, for example. It’s just set up different, the weather’s set up differently. Here in the U.S. it’s a serious problem.”
Whew!It’s a conspiracy between the Gulf of Mexico and Canadian cold air! I just KNEW those two were up to something. Plus, the weather’s set up differently here! And there’s no tornadoes in Norway. Except when there are!
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I saw that interview today. Felt like yelling at the TV.
He was claiming that all the tornado were accruing because of “climate change” - warm air in the lower to mid atmosphere. He had nothing to say about the COLD air that’s also needed. The host asked him if there were tornadoes in other countries like we’re having, and then he stumbled through, clearly not knowing much about why tornadoes even happen in the first place.
Probably why a guy whose expertise is mechanical engineering shouldn’t be branching out into the natural sciences.
Insert your own joke here.
Cheers!
I disagree.
The problem isn't his field of study, it is his ideology. His belief (religion) is blurring his vision and thinking. Or if he is to the point of real understanding, he is keeping the story up to save face.
I think more "climatologists" might want to study more Engineering and Chemistry to help them understand what they see. Mechanical Engineering in particular includes the study of chemical energy, fluid flow, thermal transport, convective and radiative heat transfer, and a lot of other fields that are involved in what we call weather and climate.
In fact, for a person to truly be an expert on "climate" they need to have studied just about every science IMHO. If they stick to the "climate" study field, they receive indoctrination that can be countered by other fields of study.
I agree that it’s his idealogy.
I’m just a simple OSU Master Gardener here in the S. Utah desert. I warned everyone willing to listen,about how unseasonably COLD it has been here (and still is, btw). I don’t have a PhD or anything, but any person who understands the natural sciences realizes that we are in a period of global COOLING, as we have been for a few years now.
Any idiot (evidently except Bill Nye) understands that when the west is so COLD as to produce record amounts of snow on Memorial Day weekend is probably going to produce a few tornadoes once it meets the warm air of the Gulf.
Here in St. George, there are entire spots on our long stretch of landscaping that are empty. It’s because the soil is not warm enough yet to support the plants that usually steal the show. These are the Pennisetum ‘Prince’ plants that require very warm soil.
I have it as a rule of thumb to never take seriously anyone who has to identify them self as “The X guy.”
Not the weather guy, the garden guy, the car guy and no, not even from the science guy.
And be it hurricane, cyclone or typhoon, nye is a buffoon.
Unfortunately, he's like Obama for the sciences because he looks good and talks well. He just doesn't say anything, at least nothing right outside of a script. So the MSM makes him their go-to guy. Exxon put him in the Universe of Energy show simply as window dressing, and Ellen as a nod for "diversity" and political correctness. I say, f-that noise.
Well, Bobby, here we are back on the air and our first question is from the man I consider to be my mentor...Bill Nye. He asks Mr. Science if climate change causes tornadoes, or is it tornados? That kept Dan Quayle from a second term. Hmmmmm...remember the Mr. Science motto DOING IS KNOWING. Let’s put an electric heater in front of the air conditioner and see what happens................stop yelling at me! I know you own the station. No, I don’t know how much the station pays for electricity. This is science! Does climate change cause tornadoes? The answer is...No, it causes the station manager to get his shorts tied up in knots over program expenses. Remember, fans, Mr. Science will be at the Jefferson Avenue Mall this Saturday washing cars to pay program expenses.
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