Posted on 5/18/2015, 1:53:47 PM by rktman
Graduation day at Rutgers University is a chance for students to relax after four years of college and celebrate with family and friends before entering the real world.
Or, when Bill Nye is the keynote speaker, it's a reminder that the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is rising and its future may be a "no-way-out overheated globe."
Nye, the bow-tied host of "Bill Nye The Science Guy," used his speech at Rutgers' commencement Sunday as a platform to tell students they must find a way to stop climate change.
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***How do I restrain myself...?***
It’s called SELF CONTROL. I had to control myself to keep from sticking my leg out and tripping Dale Bumpers of Arkansas years ago when he marched up the isle for a University of Arkansas graduation ceremony.
This was just after the Columbine killings in Colorado, and Bumpers became very anti-gun.
He then proceeded to give one of the most gloom and doom speeches ever uttered. My daughter, who was graduating, said another student muttered..”Well, we might as well all kill ourselves now!”
As he then marched DOWN the isle on the way out, he was on the other side where I could not trip him.
Bummer.
” How do I restrain myself from voicing my disagreement with Nye’s lies? Mrs. JimRed will be awfully pi$$ed if I do so; but I might work myself up to a stroke if I don’t!”
Not a problem at all. It’s about your kid, not about you. Be proud, bite your lip and don’t say anything until you get home.
Bill Nye and the Climate Lye
He was requested by the students.
Paid $35000.00
Remember last year; Condi Rice had to bow out because of demonstrations.
So now we are going to stop climate change??! HOW? It always has it always will.
How would you like to send your kid to school and have this result qualify as an ‘education’?!
His selection to speak at a prestigious university has far less to do with what he has to say than to his minor celebrity status.
“His selection to speak at a prestigious university has far less to do with what he has to say than to his minor celebrity status.”
First choice Kim Kardashian had previous commitments.
Back in 1991, the government had a several day seminar on global warming in which our, and many other companies sent engineers to hear the government spheel.
As the Pinatubo volcano had just erupted, one of the engineers asked the speaker, “Compared to the Pinatubo volcano, how much pollution does the industrial world produce?”
The answer...”five percent!”
Many of the representatives started laughing, got up and walked out right then.
You speak the truth. The climate is always changing and mankind has only negligible impact. Just the “urban heat island” effect where asphalt radiates heat back into the air more than foliage... most likely has a much greater warming effect than CO2 which makes up just 400 millionths of the atmosphere.
I should probably say the “urban heat island effect” has much more of an effect on the temperature record since many weather recording stations which were once located in rural areas are now surrounded by asphalt jungles which negates their usefulness as a temperature trend indicator. Yet these are the stations that show a positive trend. Recording stations that are still located in rural areas show that the temperature trend in the United States has been flat for the last hundred years or so. They show clearly that the dust bowl era was clearly warmer than what we have been experiencing more recently.
It takes more than that.
The speaker also has to be a Leftist, conservatives, or even middle of the road, are seldom speakers.
Condoleezza Rice had been invited to speak there last year, but there was so much pushback form Leftists that she declined.
Spheel=spiel.
We’re paying to send our kids to these expensive indoctrination centers? That’s nuts.
It’s time for American business to step up and create their own higher education centers... stop donating to liberal lowlifes and create colleges that teach.
The Rutgers students can lower their carbon footprints by seeking employment in sub Saharan Africa.
Silly rabbits...microphones are not for idiots.
Many years ago, Patty Murray was the commencement speaker at my son’s graduation at WSU in Pullman, WA. She did get booed.
That's many orders of magnitude incorrect. One very large volcano (e.g. Pinatubo in 1991) emitted as much CO2 (42 Mt) as mankind emits in about 1/2 day (30 Gt per year).
That should be 42 Mt for Pinatubo (a little more than 1/1000 of man’s annual emissions).
Bill Nye....the total Obamabot boring deadbeat!!! Rutgers University should be ashamed of itself. A commencement speaker should be urging the graduates to use their individual talents & skills as they might choose in a free society, not try to brainwash them into a Obamabot, “1984...I love Big Brother march”!!! Useless human being, that Bill Nye!!!
If I heard that Bill Nye was going to be my graduation speaker, I wouldn’t attend. Seriously. I don’t need to hear Leftwing crap at a graduation. I had the “Dead Man Walking” nun at one of my graduations and it was a boring, annoying disappointment. She ranted and raved about the death penalty for about an hour. It was an insult to the student body.
About half of Rutgers students are now foreigners, coming from 115+ countries. They can greatly lower their CO2 output by going back to the third world economies they came from, and taking their newly minted leftard indoctrination with them. A country’s CO2 output is proportional to their GDP, and nothing destroys GDP more than leftism.
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