Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Politicians Denying “Climate Change” Is End Of Informed Democracy

By William Teach April 19, 2015 – 8:11 am

If he wants an informed electorate, perhaps he could start with Obama supporters (like himself), who were utterly uninformed about Obama policies.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Politicians Denying Science Is ‘Beginning Of The End Of An Informed Democracy’

What will you be doing on Monday, 4/20, at 11 p.m.?

Perhaps watching the premiere of acclaimed astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new show StarTalk. Tyson, who may be best known for hosting the reboot of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series in 2014, will now be appearing weekly on the National Geographic Channel in what may be the first late-night science talk show. Along with a trusty cast of comedians and science-minded folks like Bill Nye, Tyson hopes the adaptation of his popular podcast to a broadcast format will make getting a regular dose of science as pain-free as possible. He thinks that by embedding it between pop culture discussions and entertaining asides, the science will go down easy, and even leave you wanting more. And he’s right.

This is the dumbing down of science for the same people who think that “climate change” is super duper horrible and will kill us all and we should pass all sorts of laws, rules, and regulations, giving Government more and more power over Other People’s lives and businesses, along with more taxes. All while refusing to modify their own lives to accord with their Beliefs as members of the Cult of Climastrology.

Anyhow, Mr. Tyson is interviewed by Ari Phillips at Joe Romm’s George Soros funded Climate Progress, and we get

You recently spoke about who to blame for the state of the climate change debate in the U.S., the electorate or the politicians. Can you elaborate on that?

The issue here is not what politicians do because the electorate votes them into office. So what does it mean to complain about what politicians do? We should complain about what the electorate does. I’m an educator, so I see it as one of my duties, especially as a science educator, to alert people of what science is and how it works. About what it means for there to be an objective truth that we would then act upon.

If you want to lean in a political way because that’s your politics, you should do that based on an objective truth rather than cherry-picking science before you even land at an objective truth. You can’t just cherry-pick data and choose what is true about the world and what isn’t.

He’s right. Warmists should stop cherry picking data to make a causal link between CO2, what they unscientifically refer to as “carbon pollution”, and blaming Mankind for slight upticks in the temperature which are quite ordinary during a Holocene warm period.

So I’m not blaming the electorate in that sense. I’m blaming an educational system that is not positioned to educate an electorate such that they can make informed decisions in this, the 21st century, where informed decisions based on objective scientific truths will play a fundamental role in what kind of society we create for ourselves.

In other words, he’s upset that the uber-liberal leaning education system isn’t doing even more to indoctrinate, rather than moving the other way and provide open and honest information that allows people to make an informed decision.

Of course, he’s very upset that the media dares to provide non-members of the CoC any time

So the question arises then at what point should a journalist give equal time to equal points of view that are opposite or in denial of emergent scientific truths. If you allocated column inches in proportion to the scientific consensus of experiments, there would be one sentence talking about people who deny climate change and the rest of the ten columns talking about research that supports it. But that’s not what we see in the public.

I think journalists are abandoning what would be their sensibility of following the emergent truths and in some cases painting a debate as though there’s a scientific debate when in fact there isn’t one — and that makes for headlines and more clicks.

He’s also not a big fan of debates. This is the same for most Warmists, since they tend to get beaten like rented mules each and every time.

Going forward, can you predict where the conversation around climate change will be in a decade or two? And maybe where we’ll be in meeting the challenges it poses?

I can’t predict where it will be, but I can suggest where it should go. The conversation that needs to happen — here it is: you have conservatives and liberals in a room, people with power, let’s say they are representatives or senators. They shake hands and say, “ok humans are changing the climate of this planet, this is the consensus of scientific experiments being conducted, what policy and legislation should we debate in the face of the information?”

Obviously, that is his opinion. Of course, it revolves around that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the slight uptick in warming since 1850 (a whopping 1.4F in over 160 years). No matter what real science says, Warmists will not give up their dogma in favor of “informed decisions based on objective scientific truths”. I do enjoy how he says “truths” instead of “facts”.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Warmists Come Up With New “Disease” Name For Skeptics

By William Teach April 18, 2015 – 4:21 pm

Brought to you by people who use vast amounts of extreme weather causing energy and fossil fuels

(Yahoo News) Even though a majority of scientists have determined that climate change is mostly caused by humans, just half the nation sees it that way. Some call those nonbelievers climate change deniers, but the comedy writers at Funny or Die have a far more serious name for it: climate change denial disorder, or CCDC, as it’s called in a pharmaceutical-commercial parody released this week.

Oh noes, I’m devastated by that slur!!!!!1!!

If left untreated, the fictional disease could destroy the planet. An animated graphic in the video shows how CCDC cripples its host: The disease attacks neurons in the brain, making it impossible to grasp the meaning of words such as “science,” “factual,” and “melting.” An example of a statement CCDC sufferers might not comprehend: The ice caps are melting at an unprecedented rate, according to new maps produced by German researchers.

Other symptoms of the disease: delusion, arrogance, and a general misunderstanding of basic scientific findings. Who might suffer from it? About 56 percent of congressional Republicans, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s analysis of members of Congress who deny or question the science behind climate change.

I’m like totally convinced now, and will change from believing that Mankind only plays a small part in global warming to believing that Man is mostly/solely responsible. I will go out and tell Other People that they must change their lives, particularly by Government rule, while I run around in my fossil fueled vehicle and increase my carbon footprint.

Of course, this is all about shaming and more “spreading awareness”, because the Cult of Climastrology has a really hard time showing their actual science, a “science” which thinks that computer models are vastly more important than actual real world data.

BTW, since the article failed to provide a link to the silly video, it is here.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 18, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil grill cooking evil meat, along with an evil CO2 infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on a racist judge abusing crime victims.

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Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World To Push “Climate Change” For Earth Day

By William Teach April 18, 2015 – 10:00 am

Let’s not forget, Obama’s carbon footprint was estimated to be 41,000 metric tons, the equivalent of 2200 American households. Of course, that estimate was produced in 2009, well before we realized just how often Obama would take long fossil fueled flights, including separate ones from his family and dog, as well as the number of times he’d take a big motorcade to play a round of golf. Which leads to

Obama to push climate change for Earth Day

President Obama plans to spotlight his climate change plans next week, saying Saturday that “there’s no greater threat to our planet” than ever-rising temperatures.

The week will be built around a presidential trip to the Florida Everglades on Wednesday, which is Earth Day.

“The Everglades is one of the most special places in our country, but it’s also one of the most fragile,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk.”

So, he’s going to take a fossil fueled flight, followed by a huge fossil fueled motorcade, to head to Florida to highlight Hotcoldwetdry.

The sad part is that the Everglades are endangered from actual environmental issues (pollution, pesticides, illegal dumping, overuse of water, etc). But, instead of focusing on those real issues, these hardcore members of the Cult of Climastology blow those off and worry about the fake issue of anthropogenic climate change.

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Marco Rubio Is A Big Supporter Of Obama’s DACA Amnesty

By William Teach April 18, 2015 – 8:19 am

Marco Rubio may be, among others, dynamic, young, a great speaker, and supposedly the “one Republican who can beat Hillary”. He can guarantee that Conservative voters, the people more likely to get out and vote during the primaries, as well as tune in during the Neverending Debates, will run from him with stuff like this

(Breitbart) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said he believes that President Barack Obama’s first executive amnesty for so-called DREAMers—the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—is “important” and he won’t reverse it himself if elected president. He delivered these remarks in a Spanish-language interview he gave to Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

“I believe DACA is important. It can’t be terminated from one moment to the next, because there are already people benefiting from it,” Rubio said in Spanish on Ramos’s television program, according to an English translation provided by the media service Grabien. “But yes, it is going to have to end. It can’t be the permanent policy of the United States, and I don’t think that’s what they’re asking either. I think everyone prefers immigration reform.”

On one hand, he is correct, at least procedurally. Obama has already given these folks executive amnesty. On the other hand, the amnesty is not permanent. It has a time limit on it. Because only Congress can pass laws that make it permanent. But, from a practical and realistic point of view, would we suddenly do away with the DACA and start deportation? No. On the other hand, yammering about how great it is is a Bad Idea, unless one is a Democrat candidate. Most Establishment Republicans keep these beliefs to themselves.

Ramos followed up, according to the translation, by asking: “But then, to clarify, you would put an end to DACA once immigration reform is approved, but what would happen, Senator, if there is no immigration reform; would you cancel DACA anyway?”

Rubio answered that DACA will end only when a legislative substitute with the exact same or similar policy prescriptions—a legislative amnesty for illegal alien minors—is implemented. He also said in Spanish that, if elected president, he believes that America cannot deport illegal aliens here in the country right now, and he expects a legislative solution will be implemented that essentially has all the parts of the massively controversial “Gang of Eight” bill that he would pass piece-by-piece.

This is the Establishment Republican belief, and Rubio is very much and Establishment Guy, who never really abandoned his belief in amnesty. This is not pandering to Latinos, especially since those here legally are typically not in favor of rewarding those here illegally. This is a Belief, and will be a serious impediment to Rubio obtaining the GOP nomination.

Some say Rubio is positioning himself to obtain the VP slot. Perhaps.

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Obama Seeks Solutions That “Would Seem “More Acceptable” To Iran’s Political Constituencies”

By William Teach April 18, 2015 – 7:53 am

I wish that headline was a joke or over-the-top Conservative rhetoric. Alas, no, as the NY Times tells us

Obama Urges ‘Creative’ Talks to Bridge Divide With Iran on Sanctions

President Obama on Friday directed his diplomats to use “creative negotiations” to bridge a sharp divide with Iran over the fate of sanctions if it agrees to curb its nuclear program, signaling flexibility in hopes of keeping a tentative agreement from unraveling.

Their “creative negotiations” have so far brought forth a deal that, according to the Obama administration, as rather favorable to Iran. According to Iran, it is super favorable to Iran, and does virtually nothing to stop their slow march towards nuclear weapons while immediately removing all sanctions.

Iranian leaders have insisted in recent days that the punishing sanctions be lifted as soon as a written accord is signed, a position that the country’s foreign minister reinforced on Friday. Mr. Obama did not repeat past American assertions that sanctions would be removed only in phases as Tehran follows through on obligations to scale back its nuclear facilities.

Instead, Mr. Obama suggested that negotiators seek a solution that would seem “more acceptable” to Iran’s political constituencies, while preserving leverage to force the government to abide by the deal. Rather than the timing and structure of sanctions relief, he said his priority was creating a system for reimposing the punitive measures if Iran is caught cheating.

This is what’s called “negotiating from a position of weakness.” It’s like a moped negotiating with a loaded 18 wheeler. At 60 miles an hour. In the rain. And the moped driver forgot to wear their prescription glasses.

“How sanctions are lessened, how we snap back sanctions if there’s a violation, there are a lot of different mechanisms and ways to do that,” Mr. Obama said at a White House news conference alongside the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi. The negotiators, Mr. Obama said, need to “find formulas that get to our main concerns while allowing the other side to make a presentation to their body politic that is more acceptable.”

“Our main concern here is making sure that if Iran doesn’t abide by its agreement, that we don’t have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops in order to reinstate sanctions,” Mr. Obama continued. “That’s our main concern.”

With Secretary of State John Kerry seated in front of him in the East Room, the president said: “And it will require some creative negotiations by John Kerry and others. And I’m confident we will be successful.”

Perhaps had this been negotiated in the first place, they wouldn’t need “creative negotiations” now. Perhaps if they had laid down the law, which is what France was pushing for (think on that one for a moment), there wouldn’t be a need for “creative negotiations” now. It does make one wonder just how much Obama and his administration where lying/fabricating the terms of the deal to the American public and Congress. Good thing Team Obama will now patronize Iranian constituencies.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

By William Teach April 17, 2015 – 6:39 pm

Yes, totally psyched. However, I have one bugaboo: if this is taking place 30 years after Return Of The Jedi, that means that, according to the Expanded Universe, Chewbacca has been dead for 9 years, since the character was killed off in the book Vector Prime, during the Yuuzhan Vong war, which takes place 25 years after the Battle Of Yavin (ABY), which is how the timeline for the Star Wars Universe is put together.

Interestingly, the movie picks a time, which would be 34 years ABY, where there is nothing written or done within the Expanded Universe.

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Flemington, NJ Deli Owner Closes Down Shop After Posting “White History Month” Sign

By William Teach April 17, 2015 – 2:38 pm

This is a big pull at Memeorandum, but it was something I had already seen previously, since I read NJ.com pretty much every day (I’m originally from NJ, the parents are still there, I get my Devils and NY Giants news, and they provide great links)

(NJ.com)  About a month after Jim Boggessposted a “white history month” sign in the window of his Main Street deli, an ensuing lack of business caused him to close his business. This despite a public apology and handshake with Bhakti Curtis, the mixed-race customer who had raised a ruckus over it.

Now, beset by creditors, Boggess has posted a fundraising appeal on the website GoFundMe. It is titled “Jimbos white history sign gone bad.”

The link has the text of the appeal, which you’re welcome to read.

Now, first, this does show the typical double standard. We are allowed to have X History Month/Day for virtually everything else. But, not for Whites. If someone tries, it is Very Bad And Evil, ya know.

More importantly, let’s consider this from the comments

Freedom of Expression does not mean freedom from consequence. He’s probably hoping to get a huge amount like the pizza place in Indiana. It will be interesting to see if the crowd funders go for it.

True. That’s always a thought passing through my head. But, imagine the outcry if a Black/Gay/Latino/Whatever was boycotted due to putting a “History Month” sign. Let’s also consider this

He’s probably a liar and a fraud too. He hangs up sign in March and less than a month he has creditors knocking on the door – doesn’t pass the smell test.

And that was my first thought, as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fuels powered grill cooking evil extreme weather causing meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Free North Carolina, with a post on 2nd Amendment hating Tim McGraw.

BTW, I’d heavily advise NOT going to the link in the photo while at work. I found the picture cruising Google images.

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Say, What Do Young Voters Want Regarding “Climate Change”?

By William Teach April 17, 2015 – 10:43 am

This was something that was Very Important to the UK Guardian (which still hasn’t divested its own portfolio from fossil fuels)

The climate crisis: five demands from young voters

The Guardian went to the University of Sussex to find out what students think about green issues in the run-up to the election. Our panel was chaired by writer and presenter Rick Edwards

And the top 5 demands are

1) Divest from fossil fuels.

Why? Well, because. That’s why.

2) Modernise how we talk about climate change

Apparently because the talking points from the last 25+ years have become stale. Here’s the one that interested me the most

3) Take lifestyle choices seriously. Alternative lifestyles are not to be scoffed at. Young members of the audience spoke with passion about their quest to reduce carbon emissions by becoming vegan, cycling everywhere and boycotting flying. “We need to build a better picture of what a zero-carbon lifestyle looks like,” said Green MP Caroline Lucas from the floor. People might be more encouraged to reduce their carbon emissions if wearable devices, along the lines of Fitbits, existed to gamify the process, said Paul MacInnes. We need to stop tinkering around the edges and be more radical.

I’m 100% behind this. All Cult Of Climastrology members should embrace these alternative lifestyle choices, making their own lives carbon neutral. No use of fossil fuels. Etc and so on. Of course, they’ll then whine about having no money and no lives and demand that Government take care of them.

4) Our current climate change targets aren’t robust or ambitious enough.

Of course. They always want more and more. Which, of course, means more and more government.

5) Don’t let austerity take the focus off the environment. Use environmental initiatives to help us out of the economic crisis.

Well, they haven’t worked at all during the current economic crisis, and many countries, in particular Germany, are moving away from the “environmental initiatives”, which have nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with politics.

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