Arrest Climate-Change Deniers

Discussion in 'Politics' started by futurecurrents, Nov 21, 2014.


  1. Yes, free of anything left of hard right. A one sided conversation. Like the one's he has with himself.
     
    #71     Dec 2, 2014
  2. fhl

    fhl

  3. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    I suspect that conversation is not the only thing that he does with himself.
     
    #73     Dec 2, 2014
  4. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    #74     Dec 2, 2014
  5. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye make fun of anti-science trolls

    In the latest episode of his StarTalk radio show, astrophysicist and “Cosmos” host Neil deGrasse Tyson got together with Bill Nye and science writer Miles O’Brien to try to figure out what could possibly be going through the minds of anti-science trolls.

    Specifically, the trolls who inundate guest Elise Andrew’s crazy popular Facebook page, I Fucking Love Science.

    It’s disturbing that so many people continue not to accept scientific facts, Andrew (who, if you can’t tell, is pro-science) told the group. “All I have to do is post about anything vaguely controversial — and that includes evolution, climate change, vaccines, GMOs, anything like that — and you’ll see comment threads that get to tens of thousands of comments long with people getting very, very vicious and very upset about it,” she said. “There are times when you look at it and think, wow.


    Tyson challenged her to trying posting a link claiming “there is such a thing as gravity” to see if that causes controversy, too.

    He then turned to Nye, who famously debated creationist leader Ken Ham about evolution. “At least they have this document that they’re basing their belief system on,” Tyson noted, while Andrew’s trolls mostly seem to be arguing from a political philosophy.

    “We don’t have such a strong divide down party lines on science that you seem to have in America,” observed Andrew, who’s British. “It seems very strange to me that people feel that have to deny climate change based on whom they’re voting for.”

    Ultimately, the group decides, the problem is anyone who cherry-picks science to suit their own philosophy.

    “This is the great irony,” said Nye. “When you go to the Answers in Genesis ministry [led by Ham] in Kentucky, they have iPhones, they’ve got Facebook, they’ve got Twitter — they’ve cranked that up to 11 — they’ve got LED lighting. And they don’t believe in science!”

    The fun comes at the 44-minute mark . . .
     
    #75     Dec 2, 2014
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  7. And guess which side of the political spectrum the ignorant fools are on? And we have to listen to these idiots and let them get in the way of reason and progress. The biggest problem with America today is the ignorant conservatives.
     
    #77     Dec 2, 2014
  8. jem

    jem

    more talk no science showing man made co2 causes warming.
    which interestingly is the same problem with evolution at the moment.
    We all get taught about the primodial soup and here about it... but we have no science showing a complete pathway from non life to life.

    So, while I have no problem believing evolution happened... lets not act like it is scientifically proven life evolved from non life.

    Putting down those of us asking for the science makes them seem like infotainment for leftist drones. Its very jon stewarty.
     
    #78     Dec 4, 2014


  9. TTTTTTRRRRROOOLLLLLLLL
     
    #79     Dec 4, 2014