Fox Anchor Wonders If Moon Volcanoes Mean Global Warming Isn't Happening

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201107280007

4 hours and 37 minutes ago
From the July 27 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:

TRANSCRIPT:

JON SCOTT: Does it go, you know, anywhere close to the climate change debate that's underway here on earth? I mean, you know, if the moon had --

BILL NYE: Well, it does for me.

SCOTT: -- had erupting volcanoes, a few years, well, a few million years ago, however you want to put it --

NYE: No, billion.

SCOTT: -- you know, it's not like we've been up there burning fossil fuels."

NYE: Uh, no, volcanoes are not connected to the burning of fossil fuels, it's connected to mining, but the big thing for us, on my side of this thing, is the science is true, and so when you discover -- the people who got really got involved in climate change, got involved in it often by studying Venus, the planet Venus. So the physics, the science that happens on Venus, is the same as the science that happens on the earth, the science that happens on the moon, in this case the geology the study of rocks, that happens on the moon, is the same science that happens on the earth. So when you say to yourself, well, I'm going to ignore all the evidence of climate change, you're saying, I'm going to ignore the best ideas anybody's ever had, that's science. And so this is quite troubling to those of us on our side of it.

SCOTT: Why aren't they erupting now?

NYE: Well the moon cooled off, that's a great question. That's a fabulous question. The moon is quite a bit smaller than the earth so it cools off faster.

[Doctor Hurt]

1. what a bunch of stupid fucks

we're fucking doomed.

[Jim__]

2. Somehow, I doubt that Nye's message got through. - n/t

[lpbk2713]

3. Proof.

What more proof do we need to illustrate you don't need a high school education to work for Faux Snooze.

All you need is good hair.

[hifiguy]

4. Teh stoopid

it BURNS!!! How are people this incredibly, unbelievably DENSE able to use toilet paper or tie their own shoes?

[mikeytherat]

5. Volcanoes - how the f**k do they work?

mikey_the_rat

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Arbusto baboso wonders if everyone at Fox news has had his brain replaced with pudding.

It would explain a great many things.

[Wind Dancer]

7. Honestly...

... you just can't make this shit up.

[Yavin4]

8. Reading the Post Alone Will Make You Dumber

I think I lost 2 college credits after reading it.

[KamaAina]

9. This segment of Fox News sponsored by the Green Cheese Council

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[hifiguy]

10. !!

:rofl:

[jpak]

11. Dumbass

On Earth, volcanoes release only 0.1 billion tonnes of carbon per year - and 0.1 billion tonnes per year are buried and sequestered in marine sediments.

Natural sources of CO2 on Earth are balanced by natureal sinks - there is no net accumulation of CO2 from natural sources.

In comparison, human activities release 7 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere - 3+ billion remains in the atmosphere (the rest is absorbed by the ocean or on land).

Volcanoes have nothing to do with our current anthropogenic global warming here on Earth.

and the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere and thus no climate.

deniers suck

yup

[Wait Wut]

12. Bill Nye talking to Scott like he's talking to a 2nd grader.

Sorry. I'd lose it. "WTF is WRONG with you? Are you a complete moron or just a fucking idiot?"

I do not possess the class and dignity that I admire in others. Thank you, Mr. Nye, for having patience and tolerance for our lesser cousins.

[Laxman]

13. We need to send some astronauts to the Sun!

We need a mission to the Sun to investigate Global Warming. It will be O.K. though, they can go at night!

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

14. Wow.

The average Fox viewer must be disturbing dim. The idiocy quoted in the OP will help convince some of them that global warming is discredited. I'm torn as to whether the host was appallingly stupid, or extremely clever about manipulating those who are.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I can just imagine what

the Science department must be like at Fox News. Its probably a corner small office with one desk, and one book sitting on the desk. Three guesses what that book is...

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Jackpine wonders where they lock away O'Reilly

on nights of the full moon.

[thelordofhell]

17. Was the fox anchor wearing a propeller hat?

[tanyev]

18. Darn. Thought for sure it was going to be Kilmeade or Doocy.

Probably too complicated for them, though.