How true that is. Here is President Obama’s favorite scientist, children’s show host Bill Nye, with his theory on what’s behind the epic flooding in Houston this week. You get one guess:
Billion$$ in damage in Texas & Oklahoma. Still no weather-caster may utter the phrase Climate Change. pic.twitter.com/9J10deVQ7S
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) May 26, 2015
They are so predictable. Of course global warming is to blame!
Although just last year it was drought in Texas that was caused by global warming:
Texas drought declared over, but a year ago Donna Brazile said it was proof ‘climate change is real’
Bill Nye warned about global warming caused droughts, too:
Snow back east. "Exceptional" drought out west. Still, no weather-caster may utter the phrase "climate change." pic.twitter.com/Vel2Un7AJD
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) March 20, 2015
And snow, of course:
Would this guy get fired, if mentioned, just mentioned a possible connection, to #climatechange ? pic.twitter.com/qFlXC1kEcp
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) February 15, 2015
What’s even funnier is that Nye thinks his alarmism that blames every, single weather event on manmade global warming is just what’s needed to convince more people that the alarmist camp knows what it is talking about:
Asking @NBCNews @GMA @CBSThisMorning why not say snow #bostonsnow consistent w/ #climatechange? With more awareness, we would take action.
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) February 10, 2015
Good luck with that.
Keep in mind, however, that real climate scientists disagree with the television scientist’s theory:
For instance, Bill Nye knows nothing about meteorology or climate but is 100% sure the Texas flooding is caused by global warming.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) May 27, 2015
Today's media coverage on extreme weather & climate change = writing w/o expert knowledge of extreme weather or climate. Advocacy?
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) May 27, 2015
Haven't seen online a synoptic lab explanation for weather pattern leading to TX/OK rains … instead, climate change is blamed.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) May 27, 2015
And there’s some question of just how extreme, historically speaking, events in Texas actually are:
Wanna talk extreme?Fierce drought of 52-54 was worse than 10-12. Then in JUNE! 1957 CAT FOUR Audrey shows up pic.twitter.com/Cze2EJ6P1P
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 27, 2015
So what do you think this AGW ilk would be screaming if after the drought of 52-54, Audrey blew away all June intensity records in 1957
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 27, 2015
REALITY continues to expose 1 busted AGW idea after another, but media reporting continues to ignore, running to latest disaster du jour
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 25, 2015
Not only has the perma drought from 2012 reversed, but look at arctic summer ice forecast in 2012(l), vs this yr! pic.twitter.com/k6In5h3yKZ
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 25, 2015
AGW hysteria scoreboard: Mud in eye of "perma drought" Tornado hysteria blown away 25% ave.Wildfire fear up in smoke,
2cnd lowest 10 yrs— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) May 25, 2015
But these facts don’t matter nor do they fit any of their models.
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Update May 29, 2015
It looks like this post touched a nerve.
Salon’s Joanna Rothkopf writes:
However, even in spite of scientific evidence, Michelle Malkin’s equivalent of a porn-redirect site Twitchy was so mad about it, claiming that Nye equates every single extreme weather event to climate change — even snow! They even quoted a single fringe meteorologist to prove it.
For starters we quoted two meteorologists in our post and she did nothing to answer any of their concerns with Nye’s theory and two, this is the same Joanna Rothkopf who fell for the debunked story of why a McDonald’s hamburger patty doesn’t rot:
This is who’s going to lecture us on science?
We also got a mention on CNN when Carol Costello asked Nye about this quote from the original post and asking if it was true:
What’s even funnier is that Nye thinks his alarmism that blames every, single weather event on manmade global warming is just what’s needed to convince more people that the alarmist camp knows what it is talking about
He doesn’t say we’re wrong and instead insinuates that there’s some corporate media conspiracy that keeps weathercasters from saying “climate change” on air. It’s at the 3:00 minute mark in the video below:
"The connection between climate change and human activity is at least as strong as cigarettes and cancer." –@billnye http://t.co/LuRakfYBvN
— Carol Costello (@CarolC) May 29, 2015
Media Matters, too, highlighted the CNN-Nye exchange:
Bill Nye on CNN: Texas floods show why the media needs to talk about climate change http://t.co/6jsUVQJ6aM pic.twitter.com/9lSaQqL4SF
— Media Matters (@mmfa) May 29, 2015
Over to you CNN and Media Matters. Is there a conspiracy that prevents the MSM from saying climate change on air? This seems like something to investigate!
Update 2. Ed Schultz at MSNBC is outraged, too, in a segment titled, “Deniers go berserk on ‘Science Guy’.” Video here.
#Climatechange deniers freak out over @BillNye's tweet on extreme weather. http://t.co/ImMSVabdWq The "Science Guy" joins #edshow next!
— Ed Schultz (@edshow) May 29, 2015
Living rent free in their heads.
Bonus: Bill Nye gets his science wrong in the clip. At the 5:15 mark he says, “…an El Nino seems to be developing, so you’d expect strong hurricanes.”
Not true, as even the liberal ThinkProgress reports:
A strengthening El Niño is the main reason scientists predict a particularly quiet season. El Niño — characterized by unusually warm temperatures in the equatorial regions of the Pacific Ocean — changes global wind patterns, creating hostile upper-level winds in the tropical Atlantic that in turn create unfavorable conditions for the formation of hurricanes.
Time for a correction Mr. Science Guy.
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