5 thoughts on “Bill Nye on California’s Hurricane”
It’s nice that they don’t have a denier being interviewed, that’s good, and in general Bill Nye says mostly correct things. But honestly, it’s super duper lame that he’s the ‘go to’ interviewee in so many places. He’s an engineer and entertainer who looks like a scientist, but he isn’t much more knowledgeable about climate science than many normal people, much less climate scientists, and he has a really spotty history on the subject:
Funny how he consistently doesn’t suggest actually cutting fossil fuel use in the short term. A moon shot for fusion! Methane leaks!
Also funny how he didn’t mention in his video that wetland microbes are responsible for at least half of global methane. His researchers either missed or ignored that detail, only looking at anthropogenic sources. I’m not certain he’s even aware of it. Methane leaks are less than 20% of just anthropogenic sources. Cutting every single methane leak everywhere (which wouldn’t be accomplished immediately, as he suggests) is a drop in the ocean.
Interesting that even France, which has done better than just about anyone, has doubled power use but only halved the fossil fuel component thereof. Looking at all energy and greenhouse gas sources, even France has a long way to go (unless we manage massive, cheap carbon sequestration, which we most likely have to do.)
It’s nice that they don’t have a denier being interviewed, that’s good, and in general Bill Nye says mostly correct things. But honestly, it’s super duper lame that he’s the ‘go to’ interviewee in so many places. He’s an engineer and entertainer who looks like a scientist, but he isn’t much more knowledgeable about climate science than many normal people, much less climate scientists, and he has a really spotty history on the subject:
A pro-fossil fuel Disney ride voiced by Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye? Yes, it existed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/16/disney-fossil-fuel-ride-ellen-degeneres-bill-nye
That appeared in Disney World from 1996 to 2004.
Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/bill-nye-does-not-speak-for-us-and-he-does-not-speak-for-science/
Four months ago his solution was plugging methane leaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiU-cSEGjqM
Funny how he consistently doesn’t suggest actually cutting fossil fuel use in the short term. A moon shot for fusion! Methane leaks!
Also funny how he didn’t mention in his video that wetland microbes are responsible for at least half of global methane. His researchers either missed or ignored that detail, only looking at anthropogenic sources. I’m not certain he’s even aware of it. Methane leaks are less than 20% of just anthropogenic sources. Cutting every single methane leak everywhere (which wouldn’t be accomplished immediately, as he suggests) is a drop in the ocean.
We don’t need fusion. We have an empirically proven, low resource, scalable solution called fission.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Aurd_Rb8gsg/X586cRMwtLI/AAAAAAAACyw/LvflAlUg2mQ5Bqvb2RnpYXWusCVeKOFwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/600px-Electricity_in_France.svg.png
Sorry, nobody wants the trash.
Also there’s a nice big fusion reactor nearly everybody can see. And in fact there are ways of harnessing that to produce electricity.
Imagine that:
https://667-per-cm.net/2017/02/05/net-energy-consumption-at-westwood-studios-after-solar-generation-with-zero-carbon-house-and-now-chevy-volt/
Interesting that even France, which has done better than just about anyone, has doubled power use but only halved the fossil fuel component thereof. Looking at all energy and greenhouse gas sources, even France has a long way to go (unless we manage massive, cheap carbon sequestration, which we most likely have to do.)