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Science Guy Bill Nye’s Super-Amazing, Very Exciting Earth Day!
Science Guy in a Bow Tie Bill Nye wants you to be very concerned about Climate Change. It’s a cause he champions daily on social media, and in appearances at the White House, and in selfies with President Obama, and with Stoned Guy Neil deGrasse Tyson. So this Earth Day, Science Guy Bill Nye joined President Barack Obama (but not Stoned Guy Neil deGrasse Tyson), for a message of stopping Climate Change and Raising Awareness. It was a Super-Amazing, Very Exciting Earth Day for Science Guy Bill Nye.
Heading down to DC to catch an #EarthDay flight on Air Force One tomorrow with the President. We’re going to #ActOnClimate.
— Bill Nye (@BillNye) April 21, 2015
Science Guy Bill Nye had to get an early start “heading down to D.C.” His Twitter bio states that he lives in New York so one can assume Science Guy Bill Nye flew to D.C.. That would have required riding in a car from Manhattan to one of three not-so-close airports. But that doesn’t matter — Science Guy Bill Nye’s Super-Amazing, Very Exciting Earth Day was about to begin!
When Science Guy Bill Nye’s fuel-burning airplane landed in Washington, D.C., he was chauffeured to a waiting Air Force One by a large, fuel-burning SUV.
A former Boeing engineer, Science Guy Bill Nye marveled at Air Force One as it sat on a tarmac idling jet fumes while he waited for his friend, President Obama. Science Guy Bill Nye even marveled at the science-y smell of burning fuel. Science is neat! After a wait, Air Force One was wheels-up on its way to the state of Florida, a mere 1,836 miles and 9,180 gallons of fuel (round-trip) away.
See, as Science Guy Bill Nye reminds us constantly, Earth Day is an important reminder that the Climate Is Changing and that is a Very, Very Bad Thing. So everyone must do their part to conserve fossil fuels and preserve this precious planet. After all, it’s the only planet we have! That is the main point of this Super-Amazing, Very Exciting Earth Day trip to The Everglades. Science!
After a few fun hours in the air, Science Guy Bill Nye landed in Florida, despite a near-cancellation due to weather. As Air Force One taxied to a stop, it was greeted by even more SUVs. But who needs SUVs when you have helicopters? Not just one, but many fuel-burning helicopters. This trip just got more exciting!
That’s right — Science Guy Bill Nye got to take a helicopter and even got to land right in the middle of a nature preserve. How cool is that! While there, President Obama and Science Guy Bill Nye were greeted by a class of about 25 students and not so many members of the press. What could be better than traveling all that way to the wilderness just to meet with a handful of children who also traveled all that way to the wilderness. This must have been great for Science Guy Bill Nye, as he previously was a children’s show host instead of an actual scientist.
There, he got to give a short introductory speech and listen to President Obama “taunt Republicans” who, with greedy minds and evil hearts, doubt his scientific arguments and agenda concerning the seriousness of Climate Change.
Afterwards Science Guy Bill Nye posed for more photos, one of his favorite things to do, with young members of President Obama’s staff. Even an adorable fuel-burning SUV managed to photobomb one picture. The excitement was barely containable — just like Climate Change.
But alas, Science Guy Bill Nye’s Earth Day was nearing an end. At least it was Super-Amazing and Very Exciting! He got to take a car to an airport, where he took a flight to another state and to another airport, where he rode in an SUV to another idling airplane. He then got to take that airplane, with the President of the United States, to another state, where he then got to ride in another SUV to an idling helicopter, that flew him to a nature preserve. And the best part? He got to do all those things again just to get back home!
How many people can truly say they spent their Earth Day traveling in cars, SUVs, airplanes, and a helicopter? Fighting Climate Change on Earth Day sure is exhausting! But Science Guy Bill Nye did have a lot of fun and managed to take lots of pictures of famous people he loves.
It is, in the end, one of his favorite things to do.
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It’s so sad, too. I used to show his videos to my 4th graders because he could explain things like physics and gravity and electricity in a very entertaining and clear way. I’ll never use one of his videos again since he’s turned into a nagging zealot about
global warming,er…climate change,er….whatever is supposed to be all the fault of us evil human beings as we destroy Mother Earth with our parasitic ways.Plus, he’s a raging hypocrite, evidently.
The (rear) end is Nye.
Mark Steyn and Iowahawk had some great tweets about this today.
Four stars!
Beyond the blatant environmental hypocrisy is the enormous expense involved in jetting these people around to what are essentially political events and photo ops. Republican or Democrat, any president who can park that plane and leave it for use only on nationally important occasions will earn some respect from me. Not only is the cost of flying these clowns around staggering, but the cost of making their destinations secure is equally high. Add in the cost of disruption to people trying to go about their business and it’s an outrage even without considering any environmental impacts.
It’s almost enough to make one question the coolness of bow ties. Almost.
He could reduce his carbon impact to zero and demonstrate the effects of gravity by exiting one of these birds mid-flight. Hey, one must do their part! Earth Day!
Hey, carbon is good. I think my emissions should be subsidized. Like theirs.
If he steps into a TARDIS instead of a helicopter wearing a bowtie, I might consider the possibility that he may be cool. (Seems like a long shot even then though.)
I ran into Bill Nye at my yacht club a few years ago. He was in town for an alum event (Cornell) and was at the lake as a guest of a member, who’s boat was next to mine in the marina.
Their battery was dead and they were having no luck. I pulled one of mine and offered it over for a jump. I also went and got some cables for them out of my car. I figured “hey, he’s a crazy famous scientist, he’ll be all over this”.
Dude had NO idea what he was doing. He and his host dithered with it all for another twenty minutes before I offered to help, and they were on their way.
From then on I figured that soooo much more of the television that we see is a totally scripted fantasy than I ever thought.
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I thought “Bill Nye, the SCIENCE guy”! But apparently not Bill Nye the battery/jumper cables guy.
Bill Nye would be amazingly irrelavent if he wasn’t a spokesman for Global warming. I used to watch him as a kid and if he didn’t do the climate thing he’d be remembered as “hey remember that geeky dude with the science show we used to watch in the third grade”. He would hardly be invited to the white house or onto MSNBC. Thomas Sowell went into this with his book on Intellectuals (I paraphrase) Intellectuals have an expertise in a very narrow subject but know little when they expand out into subjects out of their narrow range, but if they stayed in their core they would not have the fame and adjulation that have now. An example is Noam Chompsky who is a renouned linguist or Richard Dawkins who I think is a Botanist or something like that. What they are famous for has nothing to do with their expertise like Bill Nye who is actually an Engineer
You’re making an assumption in the article. There is public transportation to all three NYC airports. A little slow and inconvenient. But I am sure Bill made that sacrifice for the planet.
I would have preferred seeing Bill Nye and Obama running away from an angry alligator! This whole thing is such a scam it makes me sick.
This is like sitting down to a meal and having your companion eat an entire year’s worth of food while lecturing you about not doing enough to feed starving kids in Africa.
Progressive pretension still galls me. They talk the talk and expect everyone else to walk the walk.
They’re just working off all of the carbon offsets that the White House “bought” from Solyndra.