As of course was going to happen Hurricane Ian is being used to support the idea that we must do something, and right now, about climate change. CNN wheeled out Bill Nye, the Science Guy, as reported by HuffPost. Nearly everybody thinks he knows what he’s talking about, which is why they used him.
It’s even true that some of what Nye said is entirely correct. The reason that damages from natural disasters are going up in cost is that there are more people living in a richer society. Therefore, the same damage, from the same events, costs more – we’re all richer and everything around us costs more. Nye also said that all the climate models say that hurricanes should become stronger – not something proven as yet. But then those same models also say they should become more frequent. This is odd, because despite Ian, the remarkable thing about this year is the low number of Atlantic hurricanes. We might expect 5 a year, all the reporting a month back was about where were they – there were none for the first two months of this year’s season.
But our point here is not really about these intricacies of climate science – nor is it to try and relitigate the entire subject. Instead, there’s a very dangerous idea out there as exemplified by Bill Nye himself:
“And so I just want to ask conservative lawmakers to cut it out. I understand that you want to get reelected. I understand that you have this primary system which motivates you to get these hardcore conservative voters engaged. But look, you’ve just, just cut it out.”
The insistence there is that democracy must be overturned. Voters shouldn’t be listened to, politicians should not address voter concerns, here is the revealed truth and so action must be imposed upon those who disagree. Now that’s a truly dangerous idea – and also entirely contrary to the very founding ideals not just of America but of a free society.
The core of this is a belief in a technocratic society. There are those who have had the truth revealed to them. Therefore they get to impose, as they wish, upon everyone else. They’re the guardians of truth, right? This is an idea entirely inimical to democracy – in fact, it destroys it. And that is the dangerous idea here. Not the details of hurricanes or their damage, but this idea that they will be used as an excuse to shout at us that we must shut up and do as we’re told.
Neither Jim Acosta speaking with Nye nor HuffPost reporting on the interview provided any context, pushback, or research to confirm Nye’s assertions.
As we say, we’re not trying to re-argue the entirety of climate change. We are though pointing to the terrible danger of reactions to it. As here, even from Bill Nye, the argument is that we’ve all got to just take whatever our masters tell us to do about it. And that’s just not democracy, not in the slightest. And yet we’ve got supposedly liberal, progressive, media trying to tell us that that’s exactly what should happen.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) said last year: “What I’ve found is, people when they start talking about things like global warming, they typically use that as a pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things that they would want to do anyway.”
And now we’re being told to shut up about it as well?
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I always thought this guy was a space-shot, now I’m convinced of it.
Democrat Party’s CNN wheeled out Bill Nye, the Science Guy, as reported by HuffPost. Nearly everybody thinks he knows what he’s talking about, which is why they used him.
It’s even true that some of what Nye said is entirely correct, some is a deception.
The lies, hypocrisy and treachery of the socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
To Democrats – their truth is just a matter of their opinions.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, some people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the Democrat Party can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the Democrat Party to use all of its powers to repress the truth, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the “Democrat Party.”
To sell a LIE it is alway good to have a little pit of Truth to it ! Saul Alinsky 101 ! The Radical left don’t live their front door without a paper back addiction of Saul Alinsky’s Rule For Radicals . Hillary Rotten Clinton did her Wesley collage thesis on Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals . Hillary R. Clinton and Berry Soetoro aka barack hussein obama are Saul Alinsky followers !
One of my history professors, often said “A flat out lie, is easy to detect and disprove. A lie hidden IN the truth, is much harder.”
Good example of a Lie big enough and keep repeating it , some people will eventually come to believe it is the feel good African-American as a Race Designation for the Negro or black population in the US . The African-American feel good term was made up in the late 1980s to pacify the negro population in the US and the liberal media ran with it until it was longer a LIE ! THERE IS NO SUCH RACE AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN ! Both White and Black people are born in Africa . Do we call white people now living in the US who have ancestors who were born in Africa African-American ? I think NOT !
There’s only one thing this hyped-up improv club engineer knows less about than climate science, and that is conservative thought. It’s because of our founding principles that he has a platform, that millions of unaware schoolchildren (and some adults who never learned better) think he’s an authority on anything but his own manipulative wardrobe. History is crystal f-ing clear on what happens when agenda-driven politicians and propagandists appropriate science and claim its mantle.
Tim Forstall , The Unite State of America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC with LAWS ! The FOUNDING FATHERS ran as fast as they could from any form of democratic government because they knew it would eventually turn into a DICTATORSHIP ! By the way when 51% of the population can tell the other 49% what to do it is a DICTATORSHIP BY MANY instead of just one !
Benjamin Franklin was very clear on living the Constitutional Convention of 1787 when he said “Madam YOU HAVE A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT “when a woman ask if they created a REPUBLIC OR a MONARCHY !
AND based on what the dems have done since obama got in, is they are doing all they can to NIX that constitutional republic, and install a dictatorship.
Seattle leftie Nye has seen his image fading; the chance to get into the spotlight might have been inspiration enough….
Bill Nye, the science lie, has no training or knowledge about climate. He is a snake oil salesman pushing a hoax
I thought he was an electrical engineer…..wait, he’s a physicist also? Definition: Physicists explore the fundamental properties and laws that govern space, time, energy, and matter. So, he’s not a meteorologist. I can see how the Left got confused, similar sounding names but a total disconnect in discipline. He should have stuck to being a comedian as stated in his bio. Oops.
you might as well get pee wee herman to predict the weather.