Disaster Bill Nye: 'I Am A Failure' - High Priest of Climatism admits his sermons suck

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Speaking with Salon's Jeremy Binckes, Bill Nye, the Not A Scientist Guy admitted he's a failure when it comes to his Global Warming evangelization.

Citing the Trump Administration's Scott Pruitt at the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the "well-funded" fossil fuel industry, Nye confessed he's losing the fight.

“The United States has now got the head of the EPA who wants to close the EPA,” he said in disbelief.

The fossil fuel industry has "worked so hard to introduce doubt," continued Nye, using noticeably religious language.

"We’ve done virtually nothing [climate change] all this time," he lamented.

The former kids' show host exclaimed: "I am a failure!"

Sure, Nye is a failure in the sense that he was unsuccessful in converting the masses to believe in the one true Global Warming God, but, on the upside, he's also made some spectacularly awful media in the meantime.

For example, on his widely panned Netflix show, Nye, with the help of actress Rachel Bloom, explained to the world how sexuality is "on a spectrum," boasting some super impressive, highbrow lyrics:

My vagina has its own voice

Not vocal cords, a metaphorical voice

Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina

Please don't tell me I'm the only one who does that

'Cause my sex junk is so oh, oh, oh

Much more than either or, or, or

Power bottom or power top

Versatile love may have some butt stuff

So. Much. Science.

And because Hollywood is also awful, the My Sex Junk dance number earned an Emmy nod.

The not-so-sciencey-science-guy went on to urge everybody to vote for devout politicians who follow Climate Change doctrine.

“What I tell everybody is vote,” he said. “We don’t want everybody to be a scientist; that would be unwieldy.”

 

[TowinKarz]

I remember being five or six and staying awake worried and having nightmares about global warming, because there were people telling me that in twenty years it'd be too hot to go outside and there would be no food because plants would all die from heat.

I'm old enough to remember when the big scare was the hole in the ozone layer that would fry us all like ants under a magnifying glass, and before that, in the very late 70's to early 80's, they were actually afraid a new ice age was just around the corner... and it would soon be too cold to grow crops in most of the US midwest and we'd suffer food shortages, and so would the USSR, who would respond by invading/nuking us to get our meager grains stocks for themselves... so write your wills today, kids!!

Fearmongering is rarely a good tactic, it sows infighting, distrust, fatalism and if you get it wrong, as you usually will, people will just tune you out when something does go wrong.

And environmental policy has been so thoroughly co-opted by identity politics (like most traditional "left" issues) that I no longer even know who to believe.

 

[IwegalBadnik]

The cancerous harbingers that need to be brought down... All summed up right there. Along with the failure that Nye and his BS ideals truly are.

Rate me autistic all you want - they have their hands dirty in our lack of respect to science and logic, too.

Precisely why SJWs and the like are the worst of the worst when it comes to anti-science bullshit. SJWs can toss the line out that "the right wing is the group that frequently ignores science for sake of religion" and all that as much as they please. However, because SJWs and their gang have done just the same with the gender bit and alternative medicine (anti-vaxxers are found on both sides of the political spectrum), they have no right to whine too loudly about it.

That the SJWs claim the high ground regarding science despite their contradictions is what makes them worse. They don't even fess up to their disloyalty.

 

[Coconut Gun]

A
FUCKING
BACHELOR'S
DEGREE

 

[Shokew]

I'm old enough to remember when the big scare was the hole in the ozone layer that would fry us all like ants under a magnifying glass, and before that, in the very late 70's to early 80's, they were actually afraid a new ice age was just around the corner... and it would soon be too cold to grow crops in most of the US midwest and we'd suffer food shortages, and so would the USSR, who would respond by invading/nuking us to get our meager grains stocks for themselves... so write your wills today, kids!!

Fearmongering is rarely a good tactic, it sows infighting, distrust, fatalism and if you get it wrong, as you usually will, people will just tune you out when something does go wrong.

And environmental policy has been so thoroughly co-opted by identity politics (like most traditional "left" issues) that I no longer even know who to believe.

That explains people wanting to dismantle (so-called "respectable" institutions including that of) the EPA... Not a surprise, really - most of it has become fearmongering over actual science and logic, when dealing with issues that matter. Too bad getting rid of it isn't a good idea, either, and never will be.

 

[Secret Asshole]

The EPA is important, if a little bloated. Reagan's cap and trade actually killed the acid rain problem as well as killed off leaded gasoline. It has continually improved air quality. Prior to the EPA, it was a fucking free-for-all and you'd have people dumping shit everywhere. There's an oil spill under Brooklyn that has permanently contaminated its aquifers and periodically releases carcinogens like benzene under people's houses. You had previous chemical waste sites which were undocumented and then you'd have people building houses over them. Does some EPA stuff need to be shaven here and there? Yes. Should it be gutted? Not if you want to enjoy drinking water from your aquifiers and not having your lungs look like the lungs of a 5 pack a day smoker when you live in a rural area, no.

And the reason for the hole in the ozone layer was sealed because the world banned the CFC & BCls that was making the hole. It didn't mystically disappear. If there were no environmental regs, it'd still be there. The hole itself closed because Ozone is just O3 and it can regenerate. The problem is when you overwhelm the regenerating mechanism by releasing too much of these compounds into the air. The problem with climate change is that it has been so politicized, but reducing emissions is still a good thing. Air pollution is a serious killer and a major cause of many illnesses. You don't even have to fight the battle on the environment, you can make it a public welfare issue. Environmentalism has a bad connotation attached to politics. You make it about human illness and suffering, its more universal. Some people just don't give a shit about the environment.

We know climate change is occurring and we know at least part of it is man-made (Kinda hard to do it percentage wise, but we are doing some of it. There's no doubt about that). The problem is we don't know how much of it is our doing, what we can do about it, how severe will the consequences be, etc. The apocalyptic language naturally divided people, as did the enormity of the issue and the timeline. With acid rain, yeah, you know that shit is coming down because you can see and feel it. They should have went with ocean acidification, as that's the most ongoing impact from it. The pH of the ocean is increasing because we are releasing too much CO2. CO2 gets absorbed into the ocean. CO2 + Water = Carbonic Acid. Boom, done.

The alarmists, like Nye, fucked everything up, because they ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, predicting doomsday for about 20+ years now, with no real solutions. Not to mention eviscerating anyone who even dared ask a question, which only solidified the other side. And they also came with a very clear political tilt to push personal issues (like stop eating meat for cows produce methane). With Nye and sex junk, fucking forget about it. Nobody is ever going to take him seriously ever again. And the problem is Nye took political sides. If he was doing outreach, he needed other sides of the aisle. Fossil fuels will eventually be phased out. Nuclear is the best option but everyone pisses their pants with it and nobody knows what to do with the radioactive water and nobody wants it buried underground in their state, so that isn't happening. We're basically waiting for a breakthrough on solar and batteries right now.

And climate change is real and there is not a distinct timeline. Things will just keep getting slowly worse, such as ocean acidification, glacier melting, storm power, desertification, shit like that. Yeah, saying 'it'll happen eventually' isn't as sexy as 'HOLY SHIT THERE WILL BE GLOBAL SUPERSTORMS IN 5 YEARS, STOP USING CARS'. There are a lot better ways of making the issue pertinent. Nye and his ilk just completely and utterly fucked up framing the issue by alienating skeptics and people of other political persuasions.

 

[Shokew]

The EPA is important, if a little bloated. Reagan's cap and trade actually killed the acid rain problem as well as killed off leaded gasoline. It has continually improved air quality. Prior to the EPA, it was a fucking free-for-all and you'd have people dumping shit everywhere. There's an oil spill under Brooklyn that has permanently contaminated its aquifers and periodically releases carcinogens like benzene under people's houses. You had previous chemical waste sites which were undocumented and then you'd have people building houses over them. Does some EPA stuff need to be shaven here and there? Yes. Should it be gutted? Not if you want to enjoy drinking water from your aquifiers and not having your lungs look like the lungs of a 5 pack a day smoker when you live in a rural area, no.

And the reason for the hole in the ozone layer was sealed because the world banned the CFC & BCls that was making the hole. It didn't mystically disappear. If there were no environmental regs, it'd still be there. The hole itself closed because Ozone is just O3 and it can regenerate. The problem is when you overwhelm the regenerating mechanism by releasing too much of these compounds into the air. The problem with climate change is that it has been so politicized, but reducing emissions is still a good thing. Air pollution is a serious killer and a major cause of many illnesses. You don't even have to fight the battle on the environment, you can make it a public welfare issue. Environmentalism has a bad connotation attached to politics. You make it about human illness and suffering, its more universal. Some people just don't give a shit about the environment.

We know climate change is occurring and we know at least part of it is man-made (Kinda hard to do it percentage wise, but we are doing some of it. There's no doubt about that). The problem is we don't know how much of it is our doing, what we can do about it, how severe will the consequences be, etc. The apocalyptic language naturally divided people, as did the enormity of the issue and the timeline. With acid rain, yeah, you know that shit is coming down because you can see and feel it. They should have went with ocean acidification, as that's the most ongoing impact from it. The pH of the ocean is increasing because we are releasing too much CO2. CO2 gets absorbed into the ocean. CO2 + Water = Carbonic Acid. Boom, done.

The alarmists, like Nye, fucked everything up, because they ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, predicting doomsday for about 20+ years now, with no real solutions. Not to mention eviscerating anyone who even dared ask a question, which only solidified the other side. And they also came with a very clear political tilt to push personal issues (like stop eating meat for cows produce methane). With Nye and sex junk, fucking forget about it. Nobody is ever going to take him seriously ever again. And the problem is Nye took political sides. If he was doing outreach, he needed other sides of the aisle. Fossil fuels will eventually be phased out. Nuclear is the best option but everyone pisses their pants with it and nobody knows what to do with the radioactive water and nobody wants it buried underground in their state, so that isn't happening. We're basically waiting for a breakthrough on solar and batteries right now.

And climate change is real and there is not a distinct timeline. Things will just keep getting slowly worse, such as ocean acidification, glacier melting, storm power, desertification, shit like that. Yeah, saying 'it'll happen eventually' isn't as sexy as 'HOLY SHIT THERE WILL BE GLOBAL SUPERSTORMS IN 5 YEARS, STOP USING CARS'. There are a lot better ways of making the issue pertinent. Nye and his ilk just completely and utterly fucked up framing the issue by alienating skeptics and people of other political persuasions.

Thanks for setting me straight on some things, m8 - that's why as much as some seriously changes are needed on things like the EPA, dismantling it (and anything similar that is actually helpful to society, even if it ain't fully noticed, firsthand.) is a terrible idea, IMHO, and people like Nye (regardless of whose side you're on in a political stance, it's all bad.) are encouraging such by spewing too much nonsense. I ain't no genius on this, either, like you seem to be; this is just my two cents.

Getting rid of something we need because of some idiots whining and crying all over the place is never good for anyone, and it saddens me that there are people in power right now who unfortunately think otherwise, not knowing of the true long term consequences that can rise from such stupidity.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Nye and his ilk just completely and utterly fucked up framing the issue by alienating skeptics and people of other political persuasions.

All because winning the war isn't as important as making sure I'm the one everyone credits for doing so.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Thanks for setting me straight on some things, m8 - that's why as much as some seriously changes are needed on things like the EPA, dismantling it (and anything similar that is actually helpful to society, even if it ain't fully noticed, firsthand.) is a terrible idea, IMHO, and people like Nye (regardless of whose side you're on in a political stance, it's all bad.) are encouraging such by spewing too much nonsense. I ain't no genius on this, either, like you seem to be; this is just my two cents.

Getting rid of something we need because of some idiots whining and crying all over the place is never good for anyone, and it saddens me that there are people in power right now who unfortunately think otherwise, not knowing of the true long term consequences that can rise from such stupidity.

No worries man, they don't teach you why the EPA was formed. A year before it was founded a river caught fire (it had actually caught fire multiple times), but it was the latest in a long line. In the 1940s, a cloud of smog from a steel plant hovered over a town and killed about 20 people. It also affected mortality rates 10-20 years after it occurred.

Indoor Air Pollution is actually the #1 cause of death around the world (yes, its mostly the 3rd world, but it also includes China). Imagine framing it that way. There are just so many ways of framing the issue and they just chose "YOU ARE HURTING GAIA STOP". And I'm no genius, honestly. Its just my area. I can't go into details without some power-leveling, but its the 'S' part of 'STEM'.

All because winning the war isn't as important as making sure I'm the one everyone credits for doing so.

Yup. It is all about 'credit'. The problem is that this is like the ozone layer problem, but without the easy fix of 'just stop using these chemicals that don't decay for 100 years'. If you truly are an educator, I mean seriously dedicating yourself to science education, then you WILL court people on the other side. You'll work on how to frame the issue for them, put the science in easy to understand ways that impact their lives. And give them some sort of solution. Like how LED bulbs are going to save your ass money, shit like that.

You don't belittle them, you don't shout at them, insult their intelligence to make yourself superior, mock/deride them and make them feel stupid. You know what you get by doing that? This:

Bill Nye is an entertainer, period, end. He is not about science or science education, at least not anymore. Educating isn't about politics. Because you will alienate people, and that's the last thing you want. You don't have to like the people you are trying to convince. But you HAVE to empathize with them.

And that's what I notice a lot of people have lost, is the skill of empathy. Especially progressives. If you lose empathy or don't even bother to try, forget it. They would rather feel superior than even try to do that. I don't know why, its such an important skill. If you've got the ten minutes, I suggest watching this little part of a doc with Robert McNamara and empathizing with enemies:

 

[Goofy Logic]

Indoor Air Pollution is actually the #1 cause of death around the world (yes, its mostly the 3rd world, but it also includes China). Imagine framing it that way. There are just so many ways of framing the issue and they just chose "YOU ARE HURTING GAIA STOP"

The huge problem with climate change is they are making the problem insurmountable with the doomsday talk. Why should I stop using internal combustion engines and inconvenience myself if everyone else is going to continue to use them and send earth to hell no matter what I do? Gas up my car and turn the a/c on!

 

[TowinKarz]

The huge problem with the "earth is dying" is they are making the problem insurmountable with the doomsday talk. Why should I stop using internal combustion engines and inconvenience myself if everyone else is going to continue to use them and send earth to hell no matter what I do? Gas up my car and turn the a/c on!

That's why it's such a political issue, the only way to make the "them" clean up their act too is to force it upon them with legislation, and that's even more unpopular and more divisive. But there's smart ways to do it, the CFC ban, the DDT ban, requiring new cars to be cleaner than old ones so eventually the problem solves itself as the old cars "die" off.

Coming at you with "Were gonna put all the coal miners out of business" or "mandatory electric cars by tomorrow" earns you enemies, fast. These are big social/lifestyle changes people will resist, while the CFC bans simply meant you had to buy roll on deodorant instead of spray on until an ozone-friendly propellent was developed.

 

[Trilby]

The huge problem with the "earth is dying" is they are making the problem insurmountable with the doomsday talk. Why should I stop using internal combustion engines and inconvenience myself if everyone else is going to continue to use them and send earth to hell no matter what I do? Gas up my car and turn the a/c on!

I suppose it comes down to the problem of the myth behind how one person could make a difference when most of the time, it barely happens when no one else follows suit.

 

[TowinKarz]

Also, I'd like to revisit an observation I made back in the "Tara Strong goes Bonkers" thread.

Is it possible that someone who was an entertainer during your childhood years believes themselves to be a revered parental figure in the eyes of a generation? And when it grows up and no longer listens to them, or votes the way they'd like, or lives the way they'd like, they lose it because in their eyes, they see nothing but 5 million spoiled rotten disrespectful kids dissing their eDad?

 

[frozenrunner]

Also, I'd like to revisit an observation I made back in the "Tara Strong goes Bonkers" thread.

Is it possible that someone who was an entertainer during your childhood years believes themselves to be a revered parental figure in the eyes of a generation? And when it grows up and no longer listens to them, or votes the way they'd like, or lives the way they'd like, they lose it because in their eyes, they see nothing but 5 million spoiled rotten disrespectful kids dissing their eDad?

Maybe. Or maybe it's the horrifying realization you've been inside your Hollywood bubble for years unknowingly making great art for Literally Hitlers.

 

[Petronella]

My favorite part of the Sex Junk thing is that Bill Nye thought it would be a good idea to promote respecting different gender identities by having a song in his episode that literally is all about "Gee, vanilla sex is so boring, good thing we got all these wacky trannies around to help spice things up!"

 

[Positron]

My favorite part of the Sex Junk thing is that Bill Nye thought it would be a good idea to promote respecting different gender identities by having a song in his episode that literally is all about "Gee, vanilla sex is so boring, good thing we got all these wacky trannies around to help spice things up!"

That episode was almost certainly written by normal-hating degenerates. Mah Sex Junk is worth a laugh but it was that ice-cream cartoon that seals their hatred against normal people.

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

That episode was almost certainly written by normal-hating degenerates. Mah Sex Junk is worth a laugh but it was that ice-cream cartoon that seals their hatred against normal people.

I am a glorious degenerate with a many-splendored appetite, but hating the default setting is just ignoring reality.

 

[Petronella]

That episode was almost certainly written by normal-hating degenerates. Mah Sex Junk is worth a laugh but it was that ice-cream cartoon that seals their hatred against normal people.

Oh, God. The ice cream thing was awkward as fuck. Nothing says "we respect diversity" like a cartoon whose message is "all straight people are assholes who will try to force you into conversion therapy, but don't worry, if you just rape them they'll see how much fun gay sex is and change their tune."

That whole episode was one long exercise in "what the fuck were they thinking."

 

[Kyria the Great]

That episode was almost certainly written by normal-hating degenerates. Mah Sex Junk is worth a laugh but it was that ice-cream cartoon that seals their hatred against normal people.

I really don't like using that word, but degeneracy is the best way to summarize that episode. Seriously, how the hell do you expect people to take your environmental issues seriously if you are having episodes like Sex and Gender fluidity as well as saying that all measures of detractors should be arrested.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

And that's what I notice a lot of people have lost, is the skill of empathy. Especially progressives. If you lose empathy or don't even bother to try, forget it. They would rather feel superior than even try to do that. I don't know why, its such an important skill.

A lot of people on the Left will say that resistance to environmentalism is because of CORPORATIONS MAN, and sometimes that's probably true, but no amount of CORPORATE PROPAGANDA MAN can make wide swathes of people refuse to recycle out of spite, or pollute the air on purpose just to piss certain people off. No, it takes being an equal but opposite variety of asshole to inspire that kind of errant behavior. It takes a Nye.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I really don't like using that word, but degeneracy is the best way to summarize that episode. Seriously, how the hell do you expect people to take your environmental issues seriously if you are having episodes like Sex and Gender fluidity as well as saying that all measures of detractors should be arrested.

I don't care what sexual behavior people want to do and I don't care if Bill Nye wants to declare his support for that idea. What offends me and probably a lot of people who hated it is that his stated message is "everyone deserves equal respect and coercing people into being something they're not is wrong" and then the ice cream cartoon shits all over straight people and suggests they don't deserve respect, and also suggests it's okay to coerce straight people into being something they're not. Fuck him and his hypocrisy.