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   Bill Nye Shreds Climate Change Denier, Slams CNN For Giving Skeptic A   
   Platform On Earth Day   
      
      
   When someone’s name has been followed for decades by the words “the   
   Science Guy,” it’s a pretty safe bet that person takes science pretty   
   darned seriously, which is definitely the case with Bill Nye.   
      
   Nye, who participated in Saturday’s March for Science, was invited to   
   appear on CNN that day — which also happened to be Earth Day — and he   
   spoke passionately about climate change.   
      
   However, CNN also brought in a climate change denier to provide an   
   alternative viewpoint, but his outlandish claims during the segment led   
   Nye to scold CNN for providing a platform to promote views about climate   
   change that have been refuted by the vast majority of the scientific   
   community.   
      
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   William Happer, a Princeton physicist who is an outspoken climate change   
   skeptic, told viewers that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the   
   atmosphere are actually a good thing. “You can see the greening of the   
   earth already, from the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,”   
   Happer declared.   
      
   Happer also dismissed those who do believe the overwhelming evidence about   
   climate change as “alarmists,” stating that “the temperature is not rising   
   nearly as fast as the alarmists’ computer models predicted… So the whole   
   basis for the alarmism is not true.”   
      
   At this point, Nye could no longer hold back. “That’s completely wrong,”   
   Nye retorted. “Say what you will, but you have it absolutely wrong… He’s   
   cherry-picking a certain model. The heat ended up in the ocean. This is   
   not controversial in mainstream science, everybody.”   
      
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   Their Support For March For Science   
      
   Noted Nye: “We’ve got an extraordinary situation here in the United   
   States, where climate change deniers have managed to introduce the idea   
   that some uncertainty — say plus or minus 2 per cent — about the   
   temperature of the ocean is somehow equivalent to plus or minus 100 per   
   cent. Now, everybody, science is political. We use politics to decide   
   where to invest our intellect and treasure. But when it comes to climate   
   change, that is not controversial in the scientific community, any more   
   than the law of universal gravitation.”   
      
   Nye also used his screen time to slam CNN for giving Happer a platform to   
   spout his views. “I will say, much as I love the CNN, you’re doing a   
   disservice by having one climate change skeptic and not 97 or 98   
   scientists or engineers concerned about climate change,” he added.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       	    	    	   
      
      
   http://etcanada.com/news/220412/bill-nye-shreds-climate-change-denier-   
   slams-cnn-for-giving-skeptic-a-platform-on-earth-day/   
      
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