I'm quite surprised The Scientific American actually published the Opinion that it is. Since when does The Scientific American get so embroiled with mixing politics and science? All this crazy fringe vitriol just makes The Scientific American look fringe. That little disclaimer sentence in micro-print doesn't help their position one whit.

I wonder what part of their degrees is due to Affirmative Action? Clearly, “scientist” is a self-anointed title for these vitriolic rejects.

500 women scientists?
"for women, minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA"
They are admittedly biased against heterosexuals, natural born Americans, productive people, and they admit to being misandrists.
Their name is a facade covering their political bias.
Scientific method be damned, what they care about is political power and government grants for themselves, and they are willing smear anyone who gets in their way.

Bill Nye is to science as Jonas Salk is to pinball.

I cant believe that screed was published in a magazine that purports to be science based. There is an incredible amount of things that have to be assumed are gospel in order to go along with the article...Trump is a xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, traitor, criminal, oppressor, and anti-science...you name it. There has been no proof to any of these allegations. It is also interesting that any policy of Trumps is "Controversial". They say this like it actually means something....Climate change theory itself is "controversial" so what??? It is obvious that the high priests of Climate change do not like apostasy and will immediately pounce on any of their own who stray and rip them to shreds.

30 years ago I used to watch Nye on a local show up in Seattle. He'd do all kinds of gags like smash pumpkins and crush cans. He's an idiot and doesn't know crap about science. He just wears a bow tie and sport coat and has strong opinions. I saw him at the beginning of his career for what he is - a clown.

They used to do a skit on his show called "High-Fiving White Guys" that was pretty funny, though.

Pseudo-Scientific Dogmerican - Collecting dogma and pseudo science from the world to be used to control the world.

Sounds like Rep. Bridenstine is my man...while nye, is an anti-scientist and hopefully Bridenstine will see through him.

There are lots of types of graduate programs -- many, if not most, are not "science." My guess is these 4 women (who apparently can't count) are not trained in science as the author (or authors) of this piece clearly does not maintain the skepticism that is the first hallmark of SCIENCE. Until there is a data set that adequately details the various variables we sample and report when we talk about weather and climate we won't know if the climate is changing, let alone if humans are the primary (or any) component of that change. Every century or so the earth experiences a volcano that "changes climate" for several years -- generally not to the betterment of the human race (1773; 1815; 1883) Greater and lesser (Mt. Saint Helens, Pinatubo ) and ongoing eruptions(Mayon, Etna). which have as much impact as the brief time period the climate changers have claimed the sky is falling. Warm and cold periods predating the industrial revolution (medieval warm period; Mini- Ice Age) point out how myopic the changers are. Yes, climate is in constant flux. Yes. man's actions are important (the clean air act positively impacted air quality in the U.S. -- a similar act in China, Mexico and India would have positive regional impacts also -- but those societies have not decided the health of their citizens outweighs the costs of reducing the speed at which carbon products are cycled through the air. I'm not a big fan of Mr. Nye (and know he is not a "scientist" technically as engineers like him are trained in the scientific method as a functional process, not necessarily as a philosophical process, but if he is supporting NASA, I'ma all for that. As a Scientist I do object to some (any) group claiming to speak on my behalf. Whatever weather/climate changes we face in the near term (the next few hundred years) Scientist will help us understand the etiology or the changes and assist in developing adaptations to those changes (or the human race will become extinct and the earth will move into its next phase). It seem to me the last reckoning of those "changes" was a list that did not include a lot of actual climatologists or even meteorologists. As the local weather channel can't tell me very accurately what it is going to happen next Wednesday, I'm not going to put too much stock in what they predict for a hundred years from now. I have been very disappointed at Science News for their anti-scientific buy-in to the climate change hoax/boondoggle.
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