Climate Deniers In Full Hate Mode As Bill Nye Links Climate Change And Texas Floods

Climate Deniers In Full Hate Mode As Bill Nye Links Climate Change And Texas Floods

Author: Rika Christensen May 27, 2015 6:47 pm

Bill Nye earned the ire of conservative Twitter denizens when he linked the historic flooding in Texas to climate change. He’s not the only one, either. According to Raw Story, climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel, of the Union of Concerned Scientists sees a link to climate change, too. However, Nye is probably one of the most famous people who’s done this.
The Raw Story reports that Nye said:

“Billion$$ in damage in Texas & Oklahoma. Still no weather-caster may utter the phrase Climate Change.”

Which, predictably, brought out the anti-climate science crowd. One person called climate change a scam, and called Nye a “dipshit” and a “f**king asshole.” “Scam” is one of the buzzwords for the entire anti-climate science crowd, and none in politics screams that word louder, in association with climate change, than Senator James Inhofe.
The thing that people like Inhofe, Donald Trump, and other climate science deniers don’t understand is that worse weather, of all kinds, can be linked to climate change because climate change makes the weather more extreme. It can be just as responsible for extreme cold and unusually strong blizzards as it can be for drought, extreme heat, strong, tornadic thunderstorms, stronger hurricanes, and yes, flooding.
The people who refute Bill Nye, though, and call him a climate change alarmist, are the people who think of climate change as global warming, and think it would only cause only warmer weather. They don’t know the difference between weather and climate, and they don’t know how climate, and a changing climate, affects all kinds of weather. Inhofe and Trump are two prime examples of people who can’t grasp this.
Twitchy published an entire article dedicated to blasting Bill Nye over his climate change link, too. They started it with a tweet that read:

“The fools who claim Houston flooding was caused by global warming will get awards from President Obama. The rest of us read data for truth.”

And then they said, “How true that is.”
What data are they looking at? The phrase of the day here is “confirmation bias.” Yes, we all suffer from it, but there’s something to consider here, too: There are simply too many scientists all over the world who’ve researched the climate and things related to the climate, and concluded that not only is climate change happening, but that it is also man-made.
There are a few scientists out there who call it a hoax, but they are in the extreme minority. Unfortunately for us, the climate-science deniers suffer from such strong confirmation bias that they’ll take the word of a few outliers over the vast, vast, vast majority of the scientific community, because those outliers confirm their deep-seated beliefs and suspicions.
The worst part is that the climate-science deniers have manufactured a controversy that doesn’t actually exist, and it puts the scientists in a very bad position. We have a worldwide, scientific community practically begging their governments to do anything they can about climate change, and the governments won’t listen because of this manufactured, fake controversy. Bill Nye is only pointing out the obvious with this.
It’s stupid, and these people need to shut up. They’re the single biggest reason nothing real is getting done.