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KATIE PHANG (HOST): What do you say to people like Tucker Carlson who not only have the facts wrong, but use their huge platforms to spread disinformation about climate change?

BILL NYE (GUEST): It's deeply concerning and so the challenge -- the science is settled. The challenge there with conservative media is what -- how do we reach people who might be watching it? Now, the people who already made up their minds, accept everything their conservative talk show hosts tell them, they're probably not reachable right away. But, there's got to be people who watch it with skepticism, who watch it with stroking their chins and those are the people I very much want to influence, want the scientists of the world to influence before the upcoming elections, because if you want to do something about climate change, everybody, it's voting. And we are in a situation where we have lawmakers who are in denial about the science of climate change and it's very concerning.

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Last weekend, Bill Nye appeared on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for a segment about climate change. Nye issued a blunt warning that action must be taken to reign in climate change, or else there will be unavoidable dire consequences. The segment went viral, and, predictably, right-wing media lashed out at Nye:

While an onscreen chyron read "Climate Hysteria," Fox host Jesse Watters said of Nye: "If it was a real crisis, he wouldn't be joking like that."
Frequent Fox guest and climate-denier Joe Bastardi: "It's just crazy, are you angry?"
NRATV's Dana Loesch: "If the planet is on 'blanking' fire, and we're all going to die in 10-12 years, then how is it that the only action you want to take is to take people's money?"
Redstate ran the segment under the headline: "WATCH: Fake Reporter John Oliver and Fake Scientist Bill Nye Try To Sell You a Fake Crisis"
Glenn Beck's The Blaze: "Bill Nye loses it and melts down over climate change, goes on expletive-laden rant during late-night show"

Meanwhile, climate change is still pitifully undercovered in mainstream media.

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In the past six months, those who advocate climate action have been subjected to personal attack by Fox News hosts.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has served as a regular punching bag for Fox News hosts and their guests. In one exchange between Sean Hannity and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile, she jabs the network for its obsession with AOC, joking that programs have mentioned ”AOC well over 3,000 times.” For Ocasio-Cortez’s acknowledgment of the climate crisis and support for the Green New Deal, Fox News has accused her of “capitalizing on a fear” and “pushing doom and gloom day and night.” She’s been called a “radical nut job”, “Scary-o-Cortez” and “dumb and totally ignorant of everything.”

While Ocasio-Cortez is by far the most vilified and attacked climate advocate, she is not the only one. Another example is provided by science communicator Bill Nye. After appearing on John Oliver’s HBO program, “Last Week Tonight,” Nye was Hannity’s “Villain of the Day.” A guest on “The Ingraham Angle” suggested that calling Bill Nye a scientist was akin to referring to “George Clooney as a doctor or Harrison Ford as an archaeologist.” Tucker Carlson suggested that Nye’s appearance was just a stunt to get his own Netflix series.

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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You're using the language of politics, look you're not a scientist as you know. You're a popularizer and that's fine.

BILL NYE: I'm using the language of economics.

CARLSON: I'm just saying to the extent that you prevent people from having an honest conversation you’re doing a grave disservice to science, don’t you think that?

NYE: You asked how long it would be before -- what the climate would be if humans weren’t involved right now, is that right?

CARLSON: Yeah, yes, that’s exactly right. At what point would it have changed and I’m just saying you don’t actually know because it’s unknowable so why aren’t you open to questions?

NYE: So this is how long it takes you to interrupt me, okay? So it takes you quite a bit less than six seconds. So the climate would be like it was in 1750, and the economics would be that you could not grow wine worthy grapes in Britain, as you can today, because the climate is changing. The use of pesticides in the Midwest would not be increasing because the parasites, or the pests are showing up sooner and hanging around longer--

CARLSON: I think that’s probably all true but--

NYE: --The forest in Wyoming would not be overwhelmed by Pine Bark Beetles as it is because of climate change. That’s how the world would be different if it weren’t for humans.

CARLSON: So much of this you don’t know, you pretend that you know, but you don’t know, and you bully people who ask you questions.

Previously:

Michael Savage Says He Spent “Over An Hour Alone” With Trump And Urged Him To Continue Denying Human-Caused Climate Change

Seth Meyers Hosts Climate Scientist To Rebut The “Ignorance” Of Donald Trump And Ted Cruz

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Sarah Palin Doesn't Think Bill Nye the Science Guy Is a Real Scientist - The Wrap

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According to the Huffington Post, her statements came after a screening of “Climate Hustle,” new anti-climate change documentary. Producer Marc Morano ...

Sarah Palin Doesn’t Think Bill Nye the Science Guy Is a Real Scientist

”Bill Nye is as much as scientist as I am,“ says the former Alaska governor

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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin not only doesn’t believe in climate change — she doesn’t believe Bill Nye the Science Guy is a real scientist.

“Bill Nye is as much as scientist as I am,” Palin said at an event in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill. “He’s a kids’ show actor; he’s not a scientist.”

She specifically targeted Nye for his claims that climate change was man-made, stating that scientists who believe that climate change is caused by mankind are trying to shut down human progress and fueling “alarmism.”

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Nye began his career at Boeing and later worked in the aeronautics industry. He began his professional entertainment career on a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington. He famously hosted an education television program called “Bill Nye the Science Guy” from 1993 to 1998, and he also wrote several books on scientific topics.

Among his science-based accomplishments is assisting in the development of the MarsDial, a small sundial that has been used in NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover missions.

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/24/bill-nye-climate-change-challenge/

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The ocean is warming and expanding. This effect alone will displace millions of people. The effects on agriculture, water supplies, and weather patterns will create a great many problems for a great many of us. By my reckoning, our delay and the reluctance of conservative presidential candidates to embrace the problem and discuss it is a result of the diligent effort of a handful of climate change deniers. They have been especially successful at introducing the idea that routine predictive uncertainty, e.g. plus or minus two percent, is somehow the same as plus or minus one hundred percent. It isn’t, and the deniers are wrong.

Since the presentation of the facts and science concerning global warming and climate change have been heretofore insufficient to motivate enough of us voters, I am now challenging the deniers directly. By showing enough people the techniques and ignorance of the deniers, I believe we can make warming and climate change a campaign issue, which will swing the upcoming U.S. presidential election in favor of a candidate who is not out of touch with our worldwide climate situation.

Both Marc Morano and Joe Bastardi are well-known climate change deniers (Mr. Morano said once that he prefers the term “extreme doubter”). In an opinion piece in the unusual Patriot Post online publication, Mr. Bastardi insisted that there is nothing unusual going on in our Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. In time for Earth Day, I issued a video challenge that was published on The Huffington Post. I offered and still offer to bet Mr. Bastardi $10,000 that this year 2016 will be among the top 10 warmest years on record. I offer him another $10,000 that the decade 2010-2020 will prove to be the warmest on record. Mr. Bastardi wrote a second piece in which he re-stated his belief that carbon dioxide has little effect on global temperatures. Incidentally, despite publishing a “midday digest” every day, no one at the Patriot Post has responded to my enquiries.

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Carbon dioxide has an enormous effect on planetary temperatures. Climate change was discovered in recent times by comparing the Earth to the planet Venus. When Mr. Bastardi and I appeared on the Bill O’Reilly show six years ago, Mr. Bastardi said, “[He doesn’t] believe we have the proper measurements of Venus from over 10 billion years ago. So [he] can’t tell the relationship with Earth.” In planetary science we can tell several important things. Venus is extremely hot because of the greenhouse effect (and it’s far less than 10 billion years old). The Earth is warm enough to have liquid water, because of the same greenhouse effect. I remind you that Mr. Bastardi’s apparent belief that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with the Earth’s global temperatures is absolutely wrong.

Incidentally neither Mr. Bastardi Mr. Morano would take either wager I offered. They both admit the world is getting warmer fast. Mr. Morano just said no, he would not take the bets. In complementary fashion, Mr. Bastardi did not address my offers. Instead, he proposed a new wager based on changes that may or may not occur over a single year. You may have seen his article from November 2015 in which he includes two graphs of the world’s temperature over time. I believe anyone able to think critically can see that the graphs and data Mr. Bastardi’s cited in this previous article are irrelevant. In his first graph, the four and half billion-year time scale is too long to reckon temperature changes over the last two and half centuries. In his second graph, the timescale is too short to accurately depict the overall rate of global temperature change. He has hidden or masked the phenomenon of global warming and climate change from the readers, or perhaps even from himself.

Mr. Bastardi suggested that I’ve been brainwashed and that I am irrational. While such claims may or may not be true, rather than address my proposed wager he changed the subject several times. Among the adjacent subjects he included were: nuclear energy, Middle East oil, creationist Roy Spencer’s satellite measurements, veterans’ health benefits, money used to study whether the Earth is flat or round, professors improving fusion [reactor] output, no use of fossil fuels for a year and television commercials for satellite dish service.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/09/bill-nye-climate-action-summit/

Every once in a while we get to leave the dark and dank depths of the deniersphere to experience the light of day. This was the case last Friday, when we saw the beloved Bill Nye at the Climate Action Summit. Our favorite science guy talked about all things climate, including his recent climate denial beef with our least favorite non-science guy, Marc Morano.

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But conservative groups such as the Young Conservatives laid into Nye for blaming climate change for the floods. The conservative Twitter-tracking group Twitchy seethed over Nye’s comment, calling it “so predictable:”

Although just last year it was drought in Texas that was caused by global warming … 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.

Other users got just downright nasty:

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If you watched the Bill Nye video, Eyes on Nye—GM Foods, or read the chapter in his new book, Genetically Modified Foods—What the GMF?, you’d be sure that Nye has grave concerns about genetically engineered foods or GMOs (genetically modified organisms). But, after a recent visit to the world’s largest biotechnology seed company Monsanto, Nye appears to havechanged his mind.

During a backstage interview with Real Timer Miles Leicher, after an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Nye said:

“There’s a chapter in there [his new book] which I’m going to revise. It’s about genetically modified food. I went to Monsanto and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there and I have revised my outlook and I’m very excited about telling the world. When you’re in love you want to tell the world.”

Nye is referring to this chapter from his book:

“Genetically engineering food is controversial, as it should be. If you’re asking me, we should stop introducing genes from one species into another … Although we can know exactly what happens to any organism we modify, we just can’t know what will happen to other species in that modified species’ ecosystem.”

Nye said he plans to make the changes to his book this fall. He concluded the interview by saying, “Let’s change the world,” and then flew off like an airplane.

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Bill Nye on the Monsanto Eco Disaster: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’

Monsanto's glysophate doesn't just kill weeds — it also kills other plants that pollinator species depend on to survive.

By Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch July 23, 2015

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Bill Nye is back with part two of his radio appearance, where he and co-host Chuck Nice delve even deeper into the Science Guy’s controversial flip-flop on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

You can listen to the StarTalk podcast below where Nye points out some of the “unintentional consequences” of GMOs, such as the widespread decimation of the monarch butterfly due to the use of herbicides, as well as the threat of monocultures to pollinators such as the honeybee.

Here’s what they talked about in the second part of Nye’s appearance:

On the “accidental decimation” of monarch butterfliesfrom the use of glyphosate

“People developed this herbicide called glyphosate that kills all the weeds, and kills all of everything except the plants that have this cool gene in them that allows them to grow right through it. We also killed the milkweed, and the milkweed is what the monarch butterflies rely on. So we accidentally have decimated the monarch butterfly population, reduced it over the last two decades by 90 percent … We don’t want that where you are accidentally wiping out a potential pollinator species.”

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On the threat of GM-seeds flying into organic farms by the wind

“This is the concern of certain organic farmers, that these seeds end up in their soil and they get contaminated. [But] if you’re not planting them on purpose, there’s just not that much contamination. And the infamous cases, where when people claim they got canola growing that flew into their fields accidentally and started growing, there’s substantial evidence that those cultivars were carefully cultivated. That is to say, one guy claimed that these seeds flew into his field, but they really didn’t—he really planted them.”

On the use of GM-seeds in other countries

“In India where there’s a lot of subsistence or near-subsistence farming, in Africa where there’s a lot of close-to-the-bone farming, everyone embraces genetically modified seeds because they get much higher yields and they are not subject to these pests and these plant diseases that are troublesome for farmers.”

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On the use of genetically modified animals for scientific experimentations

“We do genetically modify animals — we’re talking about lab rats that glow in the dark, those little mice. These are very important to our research. These are very important to the way humans know our genes. On balance, I’m in favor of it, and I’m not a vegetarian and maybe one day soon I’ll become one. But I understand we raise animals to kill them and eat them routinely. By analogy we raise, especially mice, for laboratory studies that enable wonderful things. With that said I’m very sympathetic. There’s a line you draw. A rhesus monkey is very similar — and to me in many ways superior — to my old boss. So I understand when you don’t want to do experiments on that guy or gal … I think it’s still very important for humankind to have access to so called ‘laboratory models’ — that’s a noun they use to describe these rats and mice whose genes we have modified to understand our own genes.”

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On the pros of genetically modified food

“The good side is, we get more yield per hectare or acre. In other words, we have less impactful farming. In other words, we affect the ecosystem less because we’ll produce more food on less land. We are using biology to fight pests and diseases rather than chemistry.”

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On the cons of genetically modified food

“The one that everyone has observed is the monarch butterflies, where we have reduced their population 90 percent not as as consequence exactly of raising genetically modified food, but by using this extraordinary effective herbicide that has killed the milk flowers, or milkweeds, which nourish the monarchs … Are there other insects that you infected accidentally by messing up their food source?”

Nye continued, “And the other unintended consequence [is] monoculture farming. Enormous tracts of a single type of plant make it very hard for bees, as pollinators, to get the job done. They got to go there, do that one crop, then there’s nothing to do. And somebody puts them back in a box and puts them in a truck and takes them to a different crop, and they just get beaten up, they can’t handle it.”

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“The unintended consequences are things like the monarch butterflies and this monoculture farming, which affects the pollinators and our whole agricultural system. So these are things that are avoidable. So it’s good and bad, but it’s manageable. I just think it’s a necessary consequence when you’re going to have 7.2 billion [people] become 9.2 billion you’re join to have to do something to feed them.”

On the public’s fear of corporations controlling our food supply

“Bear in mind farmers make choices … they can buy seeds from this guy or that guy. And like everything else … things have gotten consolidated because international commerce has made it more efficient. And I understand our fear of corporations, but nevertheless, that is manageable through — dare I say it — regulation, where you would make it so the marketplace is generally fair. This seems like a very solvable problem … I’m not worried about The Man taking over the world because farmers make choices, and producing seeds with certain characteristics is a very competitive business. [For instance,] RoundUp is a very famous brand, but there are dozens of companies, several of them are in Asia that manufacture a very similar glyphosate salt that is well-suited as an herbicide. It’s a competitive business.”

Nye added, “Farmers choose what seeds to plant based on the ones that perform the best, not based on gunpoint from a corporation.”

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On the organic farming market and Whole Foods’ prices

“This is why the non-GMO movement has a place. We will see if that’s economically competitive. You can say corporations are squashing them. I don’t think so. You’ll find that organic farming takes more input than farming with genetically modified crops. So we’ll let the marketplace sort that out … They call it ‘Whole Paycheck’ because the food is so expensive, because it’s grown in small quantities with high input. So we’ll see what happens in the marketplace.”

Bill Nye on the Monsanto Eco Disaster: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’

Monsanto's glysophate doesn't just kill weeds — it also kills other plants that pollinator species depend on to survive.

By Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch

July 23, 2015

Bill Nye is back with part two of his radio appearance, where he and co-host Chuck Nice delve even deeper into the Science Guy’s controversial flip-flop ongenetically modified organisms(GMOs).

Here’s what they talked about in the second part of Nye’s appearance:

On the “accidental decimation” of monarch butterfliesfrom the use of glyphosate

TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA to keep glyphosate off your plate

On the threat of GM-seeds flying into organic farms by the wind

On the use of GM-seeds in other countries

On the use of genetically modified animals for scientific experimentations

On the pros of genetically modified food

On the cons of genetically modified food

TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama to protect bees from toxic pesticides before it’s too late

On the public’s fear of corporations controlling our food supply

Nye added, “Farmers choose what seeds to plant based on the ones that perform the best, not based on gunpoint from a corporation.”

On the organic farming market and Whole Foods’ prices

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Lorraine Chow is a freelance writer and reporter based in Los Angeles

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/30/bill-nye-shred-climate-denier/

Bill Nye the Science Guy has no patience with climate deniers like Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), whom he faced off with on a recent segment of CBS’s Meet The Press. Blackburn blithely dismissed his contention that climate change is real, saying “Neither he nor I are a climate scientist … what we have to do is look at the information we get from climate scientists.”

Thanks to the Obama administration’s high-profile rollout of the National Climate Assessment, climate change was, for a day yesterday, the nation’s leading story. Different media outlets approached it in different ways, but when it came to CNN’s Crossfire… well, not surprisingly, the show opted for a debate about the science.

The result was a lot of sound and fury, but at least the debater on the side of reality – Bill Nye the Science Guy – gave as good as he got. Nye was up against not only conservative host S.E. Cupp, who said the White House was engaging in global warming “scare tactics” and accused “science guys” of attempting to “bully other people,” but also Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation. Loris acknowledged that humans are responsible for “some part” of the changing climate and claimed that “I’m not a denier, I’m not a skeptic,” but he also asserted that “we’ve had Arctic ice, globally, increasing” (not!) and that “we’ve had this 16-to-17-year hiatus in warming.” (Actually, the notion that global warming is “slowing down” is very misleading.)

“Let’s just start with, we don’t agree on the facts,” Nye said to Loris and Cupp. “This third report [the National Climate Assessment] came out, saying it’s very serious. You say, ‘No.’ Right? There’s the essence of the problem.”...http://grist.org/climate-energy/bill-nye-keeps-fighting-the-good-fight-debates-climate-change-on-cnn/

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