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

[L88]

Why are pod casters in charge of the FBI?

Because a failed primary candidate was chosen to run against a nut job like Trump.

 

[Trumpetman]

Cornell University, Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

You do understand how Bachelor of Science vs Bachelor of Arts works right?

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Why are we asking a mechanical engineer about climate science?

You would prefer the "gut feeling" of a Reality TeeVee host?

LOL, your Reality TeeVee Messiah. smh

 

[iguanaman]

Does he, or anyone else, have a comprehensive plan to stop global warming (preferably without destroying the world economy and starving millions of people)?

​

Not that you are really interested but yes there are plans.

Project Drawdown: the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming​

The project, led by activist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken, was started in 2013 and has since brought together over 65 researchers from across the globe with 128 experts in climate, sustainability, academia, and business. Together this group developed a unique global systems model, evaluating 80 technologies and practices from the ground up – from innovative energy and agricultural methods to enhanced environmental conservation and restoration.

The results shocked even the experts. Combined it was shown that these 80 solutions could eliminate 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2050, enough to prevent the dangerous climate tipping point of 2 degrees Celsius. Moreover, these solutions would cost less than and produce more jobs that business as usual.

What is drawdown? It is the reversal of greenhouse gases that have built up in our atmosphere primarily from the burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas. Fortunately, major advancements have been made in the past decade to mitigate this problem.

All solutions presented in Drawdown are not just hypothetical. They are real, well-understood technologies and processes that can be scaled around the world. The breakthrough research required for the book has resulted in dozens of new scientific papers, and there are 20 more solutions coming that could create an even greater reduction in greenhouse gases.

Below are the top 10 solutions in order of greatest impact:

1. Hi-tech Refrigeration
2. Onshore Wind Power
3. Reducing Food Waste
4. Plant-rich diets
5. Tropical Forest Protection
6. Educating girls
7. Family Planning
8. Utility-scale Solar
9. Silvopasture
10. Rooftop Solar

https://www.oneearth.org/project-drawdown-the-most-comprehensive-plan-to-reverse-global-warming/

 

[Absentglare]

No not really. You need to really catch up

CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) have a high global warming potential (GWP), meaning they trap significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide for the same mass. While phased out due to ozone depletion, their long atmospheric lifetimes mean they continue to contribute to climate change. Some CFCs have GWPs thousands of times higher than CO2.

We aren’t continuing to pump CFCs into the atmosphere.

Carbon is about four hundred times more abundant in the atmosphere than CFCs. If you have some idea of trapping CFCs that’s great.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

You do understand how Bachelor of Science vs Bachelor of Arts works right?

The question was "Where did Bill Nye get his science degree?"

The question was answered.

Now.....tell me more about this "BA -v- BS" thing? Do they battle it out?

 

[iguanaman]

Then Bill Nye and others should make the argument for things that are due to Global Climate change.

A good example would be the increase of wet years and increased rainfall in the upper Midwest over the past 20 years. A solid trend that shows that there is major occurring change. Not a single event that has occurred in the past.

Upper Midwest has experienced an increase in precipitation over the years, and this has influenced crop production. While some studies suggest that increased rainfall has boosted crop yields, particularly for corn and soybeans, other research highlights the challenges posed by increased flooding and excess moisture, leading to crop damage and increased insurance costs

In the Midwest, increased precipitation from climate change goes hand in hand with ballooning crop insurance costs

A new EWG analysis has found that the overwhelming majority of Midwestern counties with increased precipitation between 2001 and 2020 also had growing crop insurance costs during that period due to wetter weather linked to the climate crisis.

www.ewg.org

You do know that more rain in the midwest is a double edged sword like your article says. Didn't we get warned not to mess with mother nature?

 

[iguanaman]

Ask the OP who thinks Bill is a great guy. BTW I've been at an event with him and sat a row or two over. He was the biggest attention whore I had seen in a long time.

Yes like Al Gore anyone that brings attention to human caused climate change is a "whore". How dare they rain on your parade and tell inconvenient truths.

 

[Lovebug]

Hilarious, where did Nye get his science degree?

He is known as the "science guy" because he expertly communicates scientific knowledge, you know, like translating it so lay people can understand it.
I never watched his shows but from what I understand, he's quite good at it.
So, that brings us back to Nye explaining things.

That said, the climate is changing and I'm sure humans are advancing it.

 

[NOLA Dude]

It didn't start the cooling plunge 50 million years ago either. In short, CO₂ doesn't control the weather.

 

[roguenuke]

It's even worse than that. He only has a bachelor's degree. Real engineering programs take five years.

Most nuclear power plant operators don't have any degree.

Just because a person doesn't have a degree, doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about.

 

[L88]

We aren’t continuing to pump CFCs into the atmosphere.

Carbon is about four hundred times more abundant in the atmosphere than CFCs. If you have some idea of trapping CFCs that’s great.

Yes, we are. Check in on the HVAC industry and what other countries are doing. R12 is still made in countries like Mexico. HCFC is still being produced and let out in to the atmosphere. R-22. And HFCs, which is 410A, Sure the US and other ban these high-GWP gases but it is a phase-out out and China hasn't even started their phase-out.

What we should do now is immediately stop the use of drive-through services. In addition to limiting retail shopping days.

 

[Peter]

Physics, at least. Chemistry, not so much. Unless you're doing something specialized.

Does changing the oil on a car count?
It kind of involves a chemical.

 

[L88]

You do know that more rain in the midwest is a double edged sword like your article says. Didn't we get warned not to mess with mother nature?

Yes, I do.
What are you attempting to preach to me?

 

[iguanaman]

It didn't start the cooling plunge 50 million years ago either. In short, CO₂ doesn't control the weather.

LOL Ice cores can go back 800,000 years and that graph only showed a few 1000. Here is a graph that shows how C)2 concentrations mirror temperatures and prove that CO2 is the earth's thermostat.

The role of greenhouse gases in glacial-interglacial cycles​

From the air in our oldest Antarctic ice core, we can see that CO2 changed in a remarkably similar way to Antarctic climate, with low concentrations during cold times, and high concentrations during warm periods (see Fig. 3). This is entirely consistent with the idea that temperature and CO2 are intimately linked, and each acts to amplify changes in the other (what we call a positive feedback). It is believed that the warmings out of glacial periods are paced by changes in Earth’s orbit around the Sun, but these small changes in climate are amplified, mainly by the resulting increase in CO2, and by the retreat of sea ice and ice sheets (which leads to less sunlight being reflected away).

We can see how remarkably closely Antarctic temperature and CO2 tracked each other, but what about global temperature? Here we can examine the last time the earth emerged from an ice age. Scientists have compiled other geologic records of temperature from around the world to calculate the average global temperature. On this global-scale, CO2 starts increasing before temperature (see Fig. 4.) (Shakun/Osman), thus temperatures are said to “lag” behind CO2. This demonstrates that CO2 was not only a feedback on natural climate change but in fact major forcing that drove the earth out the last ice age.

https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-and-climate-change/

 

[Peter]

Why are we asking a mechanical engineer about climate science?

Yes, I'm sure he doesnt know any climate scientists and has never had discussions with them on the subject to help him come to a conclusion.

 

[NOLA Dude]

LOL Ice cores can go back 800,000 years and that graph only showed a few 1000. Here is a graph that shows how C)2 concentrations mirror temperatures and prove that CO2 is the earth's thermostat.

The role of greenhouse gases in glacial-interglacial cycles​

From the air in our oldest Antarctic ice core, we can see that CO2 changed in a remarkably similar way to Antarctic climate, with low concentrations during cold times, and high concentrations during warm periods (see Fig. 3). This is entirely consistent with the idea that temperature and CO2 are intimately linked, and each acts to amplify changes in the other (what we call a positive feedback). It is believed that the warmings out of glacial periods are paced by changes in Earth’s orbit around the Sun, but these small changes in climate are amplified, mainly by the resulting increase in CO2, and by the retreat of sea ice and ice sheets (which leads to less sunlight being reflected away).

We can see how remarkably closely Antarctic temperature and CO2 tracked each other, but what about global temperature? Here we can examine the last time the earth emerged from an ice age. Scientists have compiled other geologic records of temperature from around the world to calculate the average global temperature. On this global-scale, CO2 starts increasing before temperature (see Fig. 4.) (Shakun/Osman), thus temperatures are said to “lag” behind CO2. This demonstrates that CO2 was not only a feedback on natural climate change but in fact major forcing that drove the earth out the last ice age.

https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-and-climate-change/

The climate change movement is a hoax.

Why should we be concerned about current CO2 levels of around 400 ppm when, for millions of years before humans existed, CO2 averaged over 1,000 ppm often reaching 2,000 ppm?

 

[roberthughey]

The warmer the air the more water it holds. This increases the heavy rain that causes flash floods.

The situation was influenced by the remints of a typical system from the gulf.

 

[NOLA Dude]

 

[Trumpetman]

You would prefer the "gut feeling" of a Reality TeeVee host?

LOL, your Reality TeeVee Messiah. smh

This isn't the flex you think it is since of course Trump has an undergrad degree as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

Two years later, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.

Per some in this thread, that is a "science degree" which makes him just as much of a "scientist" as Bill Nye.

The question was "Where did Bill Nye get his science degree?"

The question was answered.

Now.....tell me more about this "BA -v- BS" thing? Do they battle it out?

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/understand-the-difference-between-a-ba-and-bs-degree

So both are the same degree but it is either "arts" or "science" depending upon the field.

So President Trump has a BS in Economics. BS means Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Bill Nye has a BS in Mechanical Engineering. The BS doesn't make him a scientist. He is an engineer.

However realize that with these undergrad degrees when you call Bill an engineer, you're also calling President Trump an economist.

You're welcome.

Yes like Al Gore anyone that brings attention to human caused climate change is a "whore". How dare they rain on your parade and tell inconvenient truths.

No I mean when you go to an event with William Shatner and several other B and C level celebrities are there and the only one who parades into the room begging for attention is him, then that makes him a whore

 

[Threegoofs]

Um no, he said it was global warming and and who said this was a 100 year flood or once in a life time flood other than him?

Again, the Guadalupe River Basin is known for catastrophic floods. It's referred to as flash flood alley.

I’ve heard multiple officials refer to it as such, and FEMA does have maps of 100 year and 500 year floods, so I’m assuming they went off those.

Feel free to research this on your own.

 

[iguanaman]

The climate change movement is a hoax.

Why should we be concerned about current CO2 levels of around 400 ppm when, for millions of years before humans existed, CO2 averaged over 1,000 ppm often reaching 2,000 ppm?

Because there were no humans when the CO2 was this high or higher. In fact most mass extinctions were caused by high CO2 levels. Not that you care if humans go extinct in a century or 2.

19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns​

The research looked at peaks in biodiversity loss and their relationship with atmospheric CO2, finding 50 events over the last 534 million years that can be considered mass extinctions.

By 2100, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could rise to 800 parts per million by volume (ppmv) — almost double the concentration of roughly 421 ppmv recorded this year — if we fail to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels and converting land for agriculture.

That would be edging close to the average CO2 concentrations (870 ppmv) associated with huge crashes in marine biodiversity over the last 534 million years, according to a study published June 22 in the journal Earth's Future. These extinction events are preserved in the fossil record, allowing scientists to plot how biodiversity and atmospheric CO2 evolved throughout Earth's history.

"The relationship between carbon dioxide in the past and extinction in the past gives us a kind of yardstick that we can apply to the present," study author William Jackson Davis, a biologist and president of the non-profit Environmental Studies Institute in Santa Cruz, California, told Live Science.

Atmospheric CO2 contributes to biodiversity loss via ocean acidification, Davis said. The oceans soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide, which turns the water more acidic, reducing the availability of calcium carbonate ions needed for organisms to build their skeletons and shells. When these effects are strong enough to affect the entire food chain, they can lead to mass extinctions.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-...2-levels-were-now-veering-towards-study-warns

 

[NOLA Dude]

Because there were no humans when the CO2 was this high or higher. In fact most mass extinctions were caused by high CO2 levels. Not that you care if humans go extinct in a century or 2.

19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns​

The research looked at peaks in biodiversity loss and their relationship with atmospheric CO2, finding 50 events over the last 534 million years that can be considered mass extinctions.

By 2100, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could rise to 800 parts per million by volume (ppmv) — almost double the concentration of roughly 421 ppmv recorded this year — if we fail to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels and converting land for agriculture.

That would be edging close to the average CO2 concentrations (870 ppmv) associated with huge crashes in marine biodiversity over the last 534 million years, according to a study published June 22 in the journal Earth's Future. These extinction events are preserved in the fossil record, allowing scientists to plot how biodiversity and atmospheric CO2 evolved throughout Earth's history.

"The relationship between carbon dioxide in the past and extinction in the past gives us a kind of yardstick that we can apply to the present," study author William Jackson Davis, a biologist and president of the non-profit Environmental Studies Institute in Santa Cruz, California, told Live Science.

Atmospheric CO2 contributes to biodiversity loss via ocean acidification, Davis said. The oceans soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide, which turns the water more acidic, reducing the availability of calcium carbonate ions needed for organisms to build their skeletons and shells. When these effects are strong enough to affect the entire food chain, they can lead to mass extinctions.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-...2-levels-were-now-veering-towards-study-warns

How is it possible that CO2 PPM was higher before humans? The climate change hoax supporters claim climate change is due to humans.

 

[iguanaman]

This isn't the flex you think it is since of course Trump has an undergrad degree as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

Per some in this thread, that is a "science degree" which makes him just as much of a "scientist" as Bill Nye.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/understand-the-difference-between-a-ba-and-bs-degree

So both are the same degree but it is either "arts" or "science" depending upon the field.

So President Trump has a BS in Economics. BS means Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Bill Nye has a BS in Mechanical Engineering. The BS doesn't make him a scientist. He is an engineer.

However realize that with these undergrad degrees when you call Bill an engineer, you're also calling President Trump an economist.

You're welcome.



No I mean when you go to an event with William Shatner and several other B and C level celebrities are there and the only one who parades into the room begging for attention is him, then that makes him a whore

LOL Trump's dad bought that degree for Donnie. Trump's vocabulary is strictly grade school level. You also cannot judge Nye fairly since you hate him for what he says about climate change.

 

[SCrider]

Because a failed primary candidate was chosen to run against a nut job like Trump.

That excuses trump's bad picks?