I’m Bill Nye, here in New York, New York.
So, I’m going to read you some mean-spirited tweets.
Somebody’s got to stand up for science,
man.
“I don’t believe in evolution because
then I’d have wings.
And I don’t.”
“Science sucks.”
I’m not sure with evolution, if you’d
have wings.
Your bones are too heavy.
You’ve got to have hollow bones, you have to have feathers.
You have to make some changes.
That branch, cladistics, in the evolutionary tree,
you missed that branch.
If there’s reincarnation for you, come back
as a bird, way to go.
But if you don’t come back, you know,
I’m okay with that.
Really.
This guy says, “I hate how science lecturers
bring in evolution every chance they get.”
If there’s a lecture about evolution, I
hope you’ll expect that.
He goes on to say that “You” meaning I, the
reader, “may be an ape, but I am not.”
"orite m8."
Well, it depends what you mean by an ape.
We all have ancestors that were very ape-like,
but they were before we had bonobos, chimpanzees,
apes, gibbons, all those guys.
There was a pre-primate that you and I were
descended from—even if you don’t believe in it.
The rest of us know that you are descended
from it.
And reading this, maybe you did miss a turn.
Maybe you’re not as intellectually capable
as everyone else.
There’s some evidence for that *laughs*.
This is a mean-spirited tweet.
“Any claim that humans can control the great
forces of nature that create climate to a
definitive degree is incredible arrogance.”
Humans actually now move more rock and
soil than mother nature does.
And we have affected the chemistry of the
atmosphere very, very fast.
Nature would change a few dozen parts per
million over a few millennia.
Humans have changed it 30 parts per million
in just two and a half centuries.
No, humans had to have a huge effect on the
Earth—not only its atmosphere, but actually
the soil and rock itself.
So while you think it’s arrogant,
actually you’re mistaken.
Humans are changing the climate.
I’m sorry you’re working so hard to deny
that.
Here’s “proof” that the Earth is flat,
and it has a number: #1742.
“Giant humans do not exist in space.
That is a model space shuttle filmed in the
80s by NASA passed off as a mission.”
Well I really think you are completely and
entirely wrong about that.
And if you really think the Earth is flat,
why don’t you be the guy or the gal—
go out to the edge of the Earth and take a picture.
It’d be great—you’d be an international
hero, you’d be acclaimed.
Or you could be absolutely and completely
wrong *laughs*.
I like the second one.
Alright, let's see...
“How is it possible to have barometric pressure
in our atmosphere if we’re not in an enclosed system?”
So somehow this person is equating soda cans or
beer cans and pressure cookers with a planet.
The atmospheric pressure, what you call
barometric pressure, which is from
the fabulous Greek word for “weight,”
is a result of gravity.
Gravity holds the Earth’s atmosphere on
the Earth.
It also holds us here.
And when we try to leave the Earth, which
we do from time to time,
we have to fight gravity, generally with very large chemical rockets.
But you can’t just leave and live out in
space, because there’s no air there.
And you will notice that right away.
It might be the last thing you notice.
Keep us posted.
This one says “Bruhhhhhhh, I hate science.”
Well I got a feeling the rest of us aren’t
crazy about you either.
“Who the hell decided scientific journals
had to be so hard to read?”
Scientific journals are written to be accurate,
and reviewable by peers.
It’s not a comic strip, generally.
They take thought and effort to understand.
Show some hustle, okay.
“I think farmers have every right to hate
science after how misleading protractors are…”
I understand this is a pun about protractors,
things use to measure angles.
You understand that farming is science.
Farmers embrace science constantly, continually.
That’s why farmers want to buy next year’s seeds,
they want to buy the latest and greatest seeds.
They want to use the right pesticides, without
wasting money.
They don’t want to overtreat, they don’t
want to undertreat,
they don’t want to waste fertilizers.
It’s science.
And I remind you, as much as you like this
pun,
*laughs sarcastically*
you rely on farms.
Farming is not natural.
If you stop farming, it goes back to some
natural ecosystem.
So the House Science Committee,
"Breitbart News: Global temperatures plunge, icy silence from climate alarmists.”
I don’t know what they’re talking about
but I’m sure they’re cherry-picking some
data from some place where the temperature
was surprisingly cold.
Hey Breitbart, you’re dead wrong!
And you’re going to kill a lot of us through your dingbatical-ness.
Yeah, you heard me.
You’re leaving the world worse than you
found it.
