Bill Nye was on Real Time on HBO last week talking about his debate with creationist Ken Ham and climate change. I like what he said about climate change:
“What he and his people have done is used the word science in this new way; it’s very much like the people who deny that smoking causes cancer and that there’s climate change,” Nye said.
He added they “take scientific uncertainty … and turn it into doubt about the whole thing.”
“The idea that we don’t know, it scares some people and every time you said it, Ken Ham would say, ‘Well, you know Bill, there’s a book,’” Maher said, referring to the Bible and slapping his forehead.
Maher also raised the point that in addition to religion, many still deny climate change. He specifically criticized Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
“His big joke now is whenever it snows, you know, ‘Al Gore told me this wouldn’t happen,’” Maher said of the Texas senator.
Nye said that “climate is the big picture. Weather is day to day.”
Citing the recent polar vortex in the U.S. and heat wave in Australia, Nye said that extreme heat events can now be tied to climate change through statistical analysis.
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