One thing I've never gotten about right wing global warming denial is how they've linked it to Christianity. It seems like their god is totally cool with humans suffering the consequences of human behavior. The idea that we can't really have an effect on the world and god will step in and fix everything doesn't seem to jive with the free will and harsh consequences that they're always on about.

More like everyone!

Agreed. I'm Christian, and politically conservative, but I'm certainly not jumping on the denial train. I think what most scientifically-aware conservatives (yes, we exist) are more concerned about is that the facts are uncovered and that a plan of action is established, in a logical, orderly manner. Unfortunately, people tend to jump to conclusions about the causes, and then rush solutions that tend to cause more problems than they solve. And that's really a factor of making money off the issue, whether it be from the media using fear, or the various business industries proposing solutions that are more monetarily beneficial to themselves than solving the problem.

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I've heard that argument before, that we need an orderly plan of action step by step instead of just spending money wildly and creating more problems than solutions. But I've yet to see anyone site a specific example of this happening. In fact much of the industrialized world has spent billions already implementing solutions that we here in the US continue to stall on.

As to the idea that potential solutions shouldn't create profit. The is a wonderful idea but is a pipe dream, at least here in the US. Profit drives everything here. After all, those with the biggest hand in the problem are already making more money than almost anyone else in history and spending a lot of it to stop climate research and potential solutions in their tracks.

upvote for bill nye talking to that guy like he was a 6 year old.

ALL-wingjob media needs semantics and critical-thinking lessons with a view to righteous, unfiltered, dissemination of information.

The "with us right now is a panel of agenda-motivated fuckheads disguised as experts' scenario that exist today and is represented in some of the most, traditionally-voted-for-on-band-wagon-drugs on THIS site, can dry-hump a spruce tree.

But this won't happen. The purpose by design of media is to saturate your minds with diversion after 'I-feel-passionate-about-this-subject' bullshit, is nothing but their usurping your mind to involve yourself in shit that matters-not in the grand scheme of the ass-raping you.

Absolutely. That was the best part of this video. Watching Bill Nye have to use cupcake analogies was awesome.

^ This idea that people involved in politics, religion and science CANNOT profit is dumb and is perpetuated by DUMB PEOPLE. They all do and must profit to survive in the civilization that our politicians over the centuries created(warped?!). "Follow the money trail" is a dumb red herring. The money trail leads to ALL PEOPLE.

I personally know a good number of pastors/ministers AND people involved in the sciences (both natural and social), as well as a couple people involved in local politics -- and you know what number 1 is?

Money.

Raising it so that they can live a life as a man of god/science, keep their church/research facility running, buy the things they need to do their job, and continue the time investment required for research.

IMHO it's the politicians and talking heads (in ALL political parties) who need it the LEAST -- because they're not trying to help people or increase our mental/spiritual intelligence as a species, they're funding a GODDAMN POPULARITY CONTEST; the cult of their political party and the cult of SELF. Oh look at me I'm Bill O'Reilly I say things that people agree with and I'm a freaking drama queen about it.

Television and radio asshats. Look at the pattern. Does popular opinion lead to proper behavior? No it leads to popular behavior. That's why we have reality television and that's why we have dumb asses running our media and our cuntry. I'm certainly not qualified to say shit but WTF, it's fairly obvious logic that almost all people ignore or just accept because IT IS DIFFICULT TO THINK CRITICALLY.

Instead of thinking critically and correctly, we concern ourselves with the social spectrum of our society, which is really just the art and pattern detection of social manipulation. You trick people. It's trickery and data manipulation. How can I raise money? Well, I know the people that watch my television channel believe this, so let's TRICK THEM BY MAKING INTELLIGENT PEOPLE THAT COME ONTO OUR PROGRAM LOOK LIKE THEY'RE THE STUPID ONES.

And here's the footage. Here it is. Learn. I learn. I say dumb things and I learn. Now YOU must learn. Science, bitches. Science. It isn't just a bunch of things made up to make money. All things require money, but the truth can be articulated without passion, whereas manipulators require it to push their ideas forward and when analyzed it becomes very apparent that that is all it is.

Bill Nye, the bloviating low-information "climate guy" not taken seriously by any meteorologist.