'Not a scientist': Palin slams Bill Nye over global warming stance

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Sarah Palin's latest target: Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The former Alaska governor, at a panel Thursday on Capitol Hill, ripped the TV star's credentials and accused him of intentionally using his stature to spread what she described as an alarmist agenda on global warming.

“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said at a screening of "Climate Hustle" on Capitol Hill, according to an account in The Hill. “He’s a kids’ show actor. He’s not a scientist.”

Nye, who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering, is famous for his show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” an educational program for kids that covers the basics of various scientific topics. His program was a science classroom staple in the '90s and 2000s. After Nye ended his show in 1998, he went on to give speeches around the country with prominent figures in the scientific community.

Palin insisted that children need to question climate change and raise doubt over scientific thought rather than blindly believing what the scientific community says. “Ask those questions and don’t just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them,” she reportedly advised parents.

"Climate Hustle," starring Marc Morano, a climate change skeptic and head of the Climate Depot blog, is largely a response to a documentary attacking such skeptics called "Merchants of Doubt." A screening was held on Thursday on Capitol Hill and was followed by a panel discussion where the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee made her remarks.

In an interview with Morano, Nye claimed that people and companies who challenge the notion of climate change need to be investigated.

“The introduction of this extreme doubt … about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen,” he said. “So I can see where people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations.”

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Sarah Palin's latest target: Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The former Alaska governor, at a panel Thursday on Capitol Hill, ripped the TV star's credentials and accused him of intentionally using his stature to spread what she described as an alarmist agenda on global warming.

“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said at a screening of "Climate Hustle" on Capitol Hill, according to an account in The Hill. “He’s a kids’ show actor. He’s not a scientist.”

Nye, who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering, is famous for his show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” an educational program for kids that covers the basics of various scientific topics. His program was a science classroom staple in the '90s and 2000s. After Nye ended his show in 1998, he went on to give speeches around the country with prominent figures in the scientific community.

Palin insisted that children need to question climate change and raise doubt over scientific thought rather than blindly believing what the scientific community says. “Ask those questions and don’t just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them,” she reportedly advised parents.

"Climate Hustle," starring Marc Morano, a climate change skeptic and head of the Climate Depot blog, is largely a response to a documentary attacking such skeptics called "Merchants of Doubt." A screening was held on Thursday on Capitol Hill and was followed by a panel discussion where the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee made her remarks.

In an interview with Morano, Nye claimed that people and companies who challenge the notion of climate change need to be investigated.

“The introduction of this extreme doubt … about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen,” he said. “So I can see where people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations.”

 

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Mccain said she probably knows more about energy than anyone else in the united states.   

BA degree in communications from 5 community colleges.  Yeah!

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According to some here, she was more than qualified to be one heart beat away from the most powerful position in the free world.

Where are those idiots to defend her now?

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According to some here, she was more than qualified to be one heart beat away from the most powerful position in the free world.

Where are those idiots to defend her now?

piece of shit liberals are right a lot on getbig.   mostly about attacking repubs with obvious flaws.   See, their supporters believe to admit any flaws is to kneepad for the competition.  It's totally cool to admit when 'your guy' is poor in some areas.

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Say what you want about her but I thought he was more educated than that. Let me re-phrase that....A LOT more educated than that. Guy kinda struts around like he is Kaku or Tyson so I'm a little surprised he hasn't been called on it before.

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Say what you want about her but I thought he was more educated than that. Let me re-phrase that....A LOT more educated than that. Guy kinda struts around like he is Kaku or Tyson so I'm a little surprised he hasn't been called on it before.

Are you being serious?...Degree in mechanical engineering with experience at Boeing...He may not be a research scientist, but he has a very high level of science literacy. 

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Comments on breitbart were hilarious.  People believe she's smarter than him.  People believe a degree in mechanical engineering ain't shit. 

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He's spent the bulk of his career as an entertainer who has been marketing himself as a scientist, but he's not one. That's why being called out by an idiot does not make what the idiot says less true.

Bill Nye is to science what Palin is to politics....let that sink in a bit...

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Bill Nye is to science what Palin is to politics....let that sink in a bit...

Possibly, but he's certainly more of a scientist than Sarah Palin (Her words comparing the two)

A lot of engineers on getbig?

After attending Lafayette Elementary and Alice Deal Junior High in the city, he was accepted to the private Sidwell Friends School on a partial scholarship and graduated in 1973. He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (where he took an astronomy class taught by Carl Sagan) and graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1977. Nye occasionally returns to Cornell as a guest-lecturer of introductory-level astronomy and human ecology classes.

Career

Nye began his career in Seattle at Boeing, where, among other things, he starred in training films and developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the 747. Later, he worked as a consultant in the aeronautics industry. In 1999 he told the St. Petersburg Times that he applied to be a NASA astronaut every few years, but was always rejected.

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[Vince G, CSN MFT]

He's spent the bulk of his career as an entertainer who has been marketing himself as a scientist, but he's not one. That's why being called out by an idiot does not make what the idiot says less true.

Bill Nye is to science what Palin is to politics....let that sink in a bit...

No, he was also teaching and working for companies while being in the entertainment business.  Sarah Palin is insane to go up against Bill Nye.

He got a degree in mechanical engineering but it doesn't mean he didn't study anything else especially considering that he took astronomy with Carl Sagan.  He likely opted for that because it gave him a much better chance of finding employment...another example of him being quite smart

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and you know he's going to prepare very well for this and have lots of research ready.

Palin is so full of herself... it'll be a few notes scribbled on hand + a lot of vague mean attacks.

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Weather Channel Founder Slams Bill Nye: Calls him ‘a pretend scientist in a bow tie


http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/04/29/weather-channel-founder-slams-bill-nye-calls-him-a-pretend-scientist-in-a-bow-tie/