Far-left cosplaying scientist Bill Nye popped up Wednesday afternoon on CNN’s Inside Politics to tie the apocalyptic and deadly Texas Hill Country floods to not only climate change, but America having yet to go the way of the left’s dreams and ditch fossil fuels.
Weekday host Dana Bash set the table by invoking floods in Texas as well as others in Chicago, North Carolina, and New Mexico and that Nye was there “to try to make sense of this.” She argued the adage of once-in-a-lifetime to describe extreme weather shouldn’t be the case because “it’s just where we are with the climate and the environment.”
Nye obviously agreed and said these disasters are “exactly what was predicted” and contradicted himself by arguing that, while it is “very difficult to tie any one weather event to climate change…warm weather events are actually easier to tie to climate change.”
He also threw in with those demanding a siren system akin to parts of the world susceptible to tsunamis as water’s weight and ferocity make large volumes difficult for anyone to withstand:
[E]verybody has talked about this for years, and there are the technologies for warning systems exist. Where people have tidal or tsunami events, these sort of warning systems can be put up, but you got to get to higher ground very quickly. And the thing, the point that I believe was being made in the moment — in the video a moment ago was the mass of the water, a 20-foot high mass of water in a half hour is — you can’t — you can’t just float your way out of it. It knocks everything over. Everybody knows — you pick up a bucket of water, you know how heavy it is and you get a lot of water going that fast.
Then came the “fossil fuels” nonsense: “So, what are we going to do about it is the ancient question, and it would be to stop burning fossil fuels. When you’re in a hole, stop digging, and so on. But the fossil fuel industry has been very successful in getting organizations — like the U.S. Congress — to think that it’s really not happening.”
Bash took this deranged talk hook, line, and sinker: “Well. And the first six months of the Trump administration, we’ve seen an end to some of the federal efforts on not just fossil fuel, but other efforts that had been in place government-wide to promote alternative energy.”
Nye continued to lament:
Yes. To be the world leader, to be — to have the U.S. lead the world in renewable energy sources, so that we would be able to export our technologies, that people would want to come to the U.S. to learn how to do this up and so on. So, the opportunities still exists, but we do need to turn things around and this is, of course, you are getting my side of the story.
“How do you feel about that? Well, I mean, it’s the science side,” Bash replied, to this Nye invoked Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution by arguing Congress should embrace the “science.”
After a back-and-forth about his Hill advocacy against NASA cuts and a closing about Nye’s interactions over texts with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (which allegedly ended with Nye blocking Kennedy), Nye told her to “keep up the good work” in the name of the “First Amendment.”
To see the relevant CNN transcript from July 9, click here.
