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Bill Nye on 'once-in-a-lifetime' floods occurring three times this week

Grand Mal said:
And you claim to have post secondary education?
I call bullshit.
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So the Canadian prime Minister asked the head Canadian rocket scientist, "can you build a few working missiles for defense?". The Canadian rocket scientist says, "I'm not sure but it would be better if you could just purchase some from the United States."

You're canadian? I say b******* you're hardcore Russian.
 
L88 said:
So the Canadian prime Minister asked the head Canadian rocket scientist, "can you build a few working missiles for defense?". The Canadian rocket scientist says, "I'm not sure but it would be better if you could just purchase some from the United States."
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So American engineers decided to solve the problem of ball-point pens not working well in zero gravity. They put their best engineering minds on the puzzle and after 18 months of intense research and experimentation they produced a pen that would work in zero gravity, underwater, in extreme cold and in extreme heat.
The Russians used a pencil.
 
L88 said:
Not really. It's not just about increasing carbon but other chemicals that magnify the effect, such a CFCs and reducing carbon-absorbing ecosystems. When I was in 7th grade, we were headed towards the next Ice Age due to human activity. And the correct concept is Global Climate Change, not Global Warming.
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I remember those days, including a Time cover pitching that theory, or at least putting it up as a possibility.

A 500 year storm is one which has a theoretical 1 in 500 chance of occurring in a given year. If you get two of them in two years, it could just be luck of the draw, or it could be a sign that your theory is faulty or out of date. I think recently, it has been the second.
 
Grand Mal said:
So American engineers decided to solve the problem of ball-point pens not working well in zero gravity. They put their best engineering minds on the puzzle and after 18 months of intense research and experimentation they produced a pen that would work in zero gravity, underwater, in extreme cold and in extreme heat.
The Russians used a pencil.
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That's actually pretty good.
 
coyote505 said:
I remember those days, including a Time cover pitching that theory, or at least putting it up as a possibility.

A 500 year storm is one which has a theoretical 1 in 500 chance of occurring in a given year. If you get two of them in two years, it could just be luck of the draw, or it could be a sign that your theory is faulty or out of date. I think recently, it has been the second.
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I'm going to guess the time magazine issue was around 1975 give or take a year.
 
justoneman said:
He has a Bachelors degree. So what? He pretends to be an expert. He's not.
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He's giving his opinion. Like it or lump it.
What's the value of your opinion?
 
L88 said:
I'm going to guess the time magazine issue was around 1975 give or take a year.
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That is what I remember. At that time we were putting out both CO2 and soot. The theory was that the soot would cool our climate. Then in the early 70s, we got the EPA and emission controls on soot, but we still put out CO2, which may very well be warming our climate, without the soot to counterbalance it. Now we are getting warmer.

It is sometimes hard to tell what is "Global Warming" and what is a long term but local climate aberration. From about 1450 to 1850, New Mexico's climate resembled Wyoming. After 1850, it went back to long term "normal", or was it global warming?
 
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justoneman said:
The value of mine is exactly the same as his.
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So there you go. His opinion is as valuable as yours.
I'm pretty sure, though, that Bill Nye won't show up here refuting the value of your input.
 
L88 said:
Does he have a science degree? No Mechanical Engineering, but kinda science but not weather.
My degree is from Bradley University and Master's from the University of Missouri.
Do you have a College degree?
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You realize that science and engineering are rather close in nature.

All engineers have to have a certain degree of science background to do their work
 
marduc said:
Because someone who for their entire life has been scientifically curious knows magnitudes of order more than the relatively scientifically llliterate general populace.
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You base this one what exactly? Magic beans?
 
iguanaman said:
The destructive power of these floods are a direct result of global warming and they are only going to get worse and more frequent. What a great time to cut the budgets of the NWS and NOAA and green energy initiatives. The harm that will come from these foolish moves will be hellish .

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Does he, or anyone else, have a comprehensive plan to stop global warming (preferably without destroying the world economy and starving millions of people)?
 
L88 said:
I get that. But that doesn't make him a Global Climate Scientist, does it? His career was built on freezing balloons with nitrogen and pouring vinegar on baking soda for children's entertainment.
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Unlike you, Bill Nye isn’t. Making shit up.

He’s communicating what climate scientists are saying.
 
Noodlegawd said:
Does he, or anyone else, have a comprehensive plan to stop global warming (preferably without destroying the world economy and starving millions of people)?
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Green energy. Why would that destroy the world economy and starve millions of people?
 
JohnfrmClevelan said:
Green energy. Why would that destroy the world economy and starve millions of people?
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"Green energy" is not a "comprehensive plan." We can't just snap our fingers and suddenly have all the green energy we need.
 
Noodlegawd said:
"Green energy" is not a "comprehensive plan." We can't just snap our fingers and suddenly have all the green energy we need.
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You realize there are lots of comprehensive plans in place, right?
 
iguanaman said:
The destructive power of these floods are a direct result of global warming and they are only going to get worse and more frequent. What a great time to cut the budgets of the NWS and NOAA and green energy initiatives. The harm that will come from these foolish moves will be hellish .

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No!

Extreme flash flooding always destroys like it did in Texas.
 
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