Science Guy

I had to link to this. I can add nothing to the power of Bill Nye The Science Guy vs. Professor Lindzen debating Global Warming on Larry King's CNN show. Only in America.

Textbooks and scientist vs. Groupthink and comic/TV personality. Nye does look smart in a bow tie. Not.

Some people don't get implants, or whatever they call them, from YouTube, if need be you can click on the title to secure the video. Be sure to have a piece of paper and a crayon when the debate starts.

Of course, it is absurd to go out and use him as a counterpoint to Dr. Linden, who sounded so authoritative in his articles, according to the great Larry King. Don't bother to defend Nye because he may be on your team, no one can consider him of any relevance to a dialogue; after all, he's not Al Gore who once got C+ in earth science.

My blog's philosophy is you can't judge the truth of a message by any particular messenger. Thank god, I now have this video to use as the perfect example of how ill-advised it is to merely attack people, invoke a mystical parliament of scientists, or count votes to make an argument. If there were a hall of 24,999 Bill Nyes and 1 Lindzen, only an idiot would say the truth is settled by a vote.

Can you imagine the producer actually calling?

"Say, we need an equal time person to talk about how there really is a global warming crisis, you in?"

"Wow, that is great."

"You gonna wear a bow tie?"

"Of course."

"Perfect. So the guy you will oppose is some Holocaust denier from MIT who thinks the whole global warming idea is hysteria. He was once quoted by the UN's people as voting for their report, but he came forward and said they lied, but who cares."

"Huh? Does he read?"

"I am afraid so."

"That's OK, the viewers will be on my side."

"Yeah, just a few one liners will do it."

"You mean there is more?"

"Not really, I will have someone call to arrange the time."

Nye actually believes he can sit at the table and discuss something; not only that, to attack Lindzen, which he did because the next thing he said is he didn't want to, which is an old ruse of the feeble. He says the number of scientists against Lindzen is 100,000 scientists to one.

The theme is: Lindzen recommends pulling back from hysteria and looking into things like physics, on one hand. On the other paw, Nye's approach, and some woman I didn't identify, is that Lindzen must be crazy. So there.

They say that because there is no comeback for: if you want to stop the Gulf stream, you have to stop the earth from rotating. Obviously mad. (Nye said the stream will stop because it is caused by salt.) CNN played Greenpeace video and its own throughout to make sure the CNN audience got it newspeak. They didn't show people laughing, only polar bears, which we have been programmed to believe are drowning (in the water they fish.)

There was some British guy, Julian Morris, who was thoroughly ignored, especially since he used long sentences, to explain even if there were global warming, its no big deal. We should worry about starving children, not unknown ideas of the future.

His crazy theory is the population of the world will see a dramatic increase in annual income (and education and lower birth rates, if I may make an addition) so if there was an inch or two increase in the sea level, who cares. People will be able to deal with things. (Obviously, crazy)

When you look at the YouTube comments you get insightful observations like how the writer grew up watching Bill Nye, a former stand up comic, and how Nye really "owns" Lindzen. My question is whether mass stupidity is a new phenomenon.

I don't think so. When I was watching TV as a child, we had Mr. Wizard to watch Saturday morning and no one thought of him as the Pied Piper. He was a guy on TV with cool experiments, sort of a teacher. We hadn't been indoctrinated in the power of Big Brother on TV, which could explain the brain gap.

I just looked up Mr. Wizard and found he was an English major who went into WWII and became a B 24 pilot, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. You wouldn't base your philosophy of life on him as he was neither a professional scientist or a stand-up comic.

So, don't forget, the lady said Global Warming is a fact because the UN said so, having lied about Mr. Lindzen's views.