Neil deGrasse Tyson slams GOP climate deniers: “I thought as a nation we were above this”

Salon ^ | March 24, 2015 | Lindsay Abrams

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What a tool. Gad, I can't stand that jerk.

He thought as a nation, we are above....what exactly? Actual, real scientific procedure and discovery? Sorry to disappoint but all of us are not yet brainwashed or cowed by the High Priests of the Church of Global Warming.

[Calvin Locke]

Remember when Sagan said ...

No, but I do recall Sagan's preaching about "nuclear winter" and having to distort studies, papers, and research by real scientists to support his opin..., er, repackaged, useful idiot religion.

[rightwingcrazy]

“I don’t know if our country has any precedent for emergent scientific truths to be debated on political grounds”

He goes on to make his argument on purely political grounds. Looking forward to his scientific ones, but perhaps the brains of us mere mortals are too tiny to grasp them.

[BRL]

Sounds like this guy is a global warming denier because he has clearly abandoned that term

[GraceG]

I see one and half brains and zero common-sense.

I see Rodney McKay somewhere smirking and laughing.

Star Gate Atlantis Reference

[GraceG]

[Sgt_Schultze]

Is that a photo of serf-absorption cubed? I mean, there was obviously a photographer present, what is the purpose of a “selfie” when a photographer is already in position?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

FEMA to deny funds to global warming skeptic governors

[GraceG]

Hmmm, when a large number of "ground temp stations" are located near parking lots that absorb heat from the sun....

OMG the planet has a fever all of the sudden

[Mastador1]

Is he a real scientist?

He has a masters in Slime-atology!

[Buckeye McFrog]

All these heretics need to be burned at the stake, right Nelly?

Actually that's #3 on Al Gore's To-Do List

[Raycpa]

anointed spokesperson

And they say its not a religion.

[Raycpa]

What's the correct term here? Is that a gaggle of assholes? Or a flock?

Brood of vipers.

[Viennacon]

This fool should be a dancing bear, not a scientist.

He is essentially Obama with a bigger ego

[mulligan]

It is hard to reason with an idiot.

[indthkr]

Grad student of Carl Sagan, who was also a complete zero.

[Amagi]

This Tyson clown has no credibility.
I'm glad I'm not out there putting my good name on the line for the Global Warming scam when it is based on government-paid self-admitted liars busted in their own e-mails who created a GIGO computer climate model Hockey Stick Hoax.
That, and the fact there has been no warming for 18 years.
One could go on-and-on, but to a clown like Tyson (to whom political ideology trumps the scientific method) Truth is pointless.

[mjp]

taking a stance that directly opposes the scientific evidence on climate change could be becoming a political liability.

Climate change isn’t caused by man, there’s been no significant warming for nearly two decades, and, even if there had been, it would probably be a good thing. Furthermore, human CO2 emissions might have prevented disaster.

[dfwgator]

They can never argue for their case, all they do is throw insults at those who disagree with them.

[Mike Darancette]

So that Greenpeace guy is a Republican? Who knew? Scientists are so whiny when they get political.