The catastrophic global warming crowd is at it again. This time, a CNN anchor — that noted climate scientist Deb Feyerick — transitioned from discussing the big snow storm into asking her guest, Bill Nye, this question:
“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?”
Very politely, Bill Nye (the Science Guy) ignored her jaw droppingly idiotic question and proceeded to fulfill his role as global warming shill by blaming the snow storm on climate change.
It was an easy transition from blaming the snow storm on global warming to speculating that the near approach of an asteroid next Friday is also due to carbon emissions. Global warming hysterics have even gone so far as to blame earthquakes on climate change — an hypothesis that noted skeptic Steve McIntyre finds dubious to say the least.
Besides, it really doesn’t matter what the weather event is, does it? Record cold snap? Global warming. Heat wave? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. Record rainfall? Global warming. It’s an easy and fun game to play and the media laps it up.
I’m sure Ms. Feyerick was just trying to be helpful and do her part to spread misinformation and junk science about climate change. It’s her job, after all, and fulfilling the agenda of the UN and supporters of catastrophic global warming is a worthy cause, in her eyes.
For the rest of us, I’m hoping that the asteroid turns out to be an alien space ship and makes a landing right in the middle of Central Park. That scenario is easily as probable as the idea that asteroids care what temperature it is prior to slamming into our planet.
Now, to be fair, space is cold so the attraction to the warming earth is understandable. Plus, the self-reinforcing feedback that is the root of the catastrophic impacts of AGW require that the heat from earth radiated into space be reduced. So we really aren’t sharing the wealth of our warm habitable planet with the 99% of other objects in space so they would be right to occupy earth, perhaps near Wall Street. If any observers see a meteor with drums headed toward earth, then we know things are about to get real bad.
I ♥ Entropy!
Bill Nye did better that I. “Are you really that stupid?” would have been one of the nicer possibilities to slip out. He should have asked if she though anthropogenic global warming was also responsible for the warming seen on Venus, Mars and Jupiter. The answer probably would have been yes.
One thing is for sure: if an asteroid that big hits the Earth, it will get really hot for a while as the debris turns the atmosphere into an oven then really cold as the dust and smoke blots out the sun for years. Best of all from the liberal point of view, there wouldn’t be any more humans left on earth, or much of anything other than microbes. Just nice, dead dirt safe from the harmful influences of life, and a spanking new crater a few hundred miles across.
I think, “You are not a rocket scientist, are you?” would be a more sophisticated response. Sadly most people and probably all of CNN’s viewers wouldn’t get it.
Just goes to show how much of a punchline AGW has become. Late night comedians have been using the AGW punchline for years. So CNN is just copycatting.
Or even a day (much less a year) that is utterly and entirely within seasonal norms.
“For the rest of us, I’m hoping that the asteroid turns out to be an alien space ship and makes a landing right in the middle of Central Park.” They’d blame that on global warming, too; you know, those aliens out looking for the interstellar version of a trip to Bermuda! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to shoveling 2 1/2 feet of global warming out of my driveway!
Actually global warming keeps them away. And comets too. And space monkeys.
Not from Iranian space monkeys! Their little space burkas protect them.
AGW is like the ex-husband/boyfriend and “climate scientists” like the feckless females who blame him/it for everything.
The end is Nye.
Does the end justify being mean?
It used to be that our newscasters/readers were educated. Even though Walter Cronkite at least leaned left he did ask intelligent questions. I’m not asking every newsperson to be at his level, but please have a basic education. That someone on a multibillion dollar network can ask such an ignorant question speaks ill of her and a criminal indictment of the system that miseducated her.
Keep in mind that some news outlets tried to blame the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on AGW. Scientific knowledge is not a requirement for a journalism degree, or a job with a major news outlet.
However, the scientific education in our schools is far from blameless. I once ran across a science textbook at the college level which stated in both text ad diagrams that the Earth’s “mesosphere” was an atmospheric layer lying between the ionosphere and exosphere. Which, of course, it isn’t, it’s just above the stratosphere, below the ionosphere. It’s also the name for a layer of the Earth’s mantle, below the lithosphere but above the outer core.
I’m not sure which is less intelligent; getting the order of layers in a planet’s gaseous envelope wrong, or using the same name for two entirely different parts of a planetary environment. I can only assume that these days, the geologists and aerologists aren’t talking to each other very much.
(For those of you not into advanced geekery, an aerologist is someone who studies the entire atmospheric envelope, as opposed to a meteorologist who only deals with the part where weather forms, relatively near the surface.)
cheers
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You could have the first word off your second sentence.
Come on guys!! It’s the same answer as shootings in schools, signs prohibiting the approaching evil doer! We post signs all over the outer solar system saying “Asteroid Free Zone,” to keep the flying stuff out!
Bill Nye politely ignored it?
Of course. It’s not like it was a science flub on Fox. That would be different, because… because.
Can someone actually be that stupid?