{"id":20158,"date":"2016-04-22T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20158"},"modified":"2016-04-22T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:59:49","slug":"bill-nye-the-science-guy-takes-on-climate-denialist-joe-bastardi-the-goebbels-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20158","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the \u2018Goebbels\u2019 Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/04\/22\/bill-nye-science-guy-takes-climate-denialist-joe-bastardi-goebbels-guy\">Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the \u2018Goebbels\u2019 Guy<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"page__title title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/nye%20bastardi%20grab.jpg?itok=q5dIZuko\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"481\" \/><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-10547 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\">You might have heard that quote from outspoken American author Upton Sinclair, who once wrote: \u201cIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The quote is often used to illustrate how people\u2019s allegiances can sometimes gum up their cognitive ability or just cause them to ignore truths inconvenient to their cause, or their customer\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">TV<\/span>\u00a0presenter and science advocate Bill Nye \u201cthe Science Guy\u201d dusted off Sinclair\u2019s 1935 quote in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C4bDk-pPgbs\" target=\"_blank\">new video<\/a>, in which he challenged climate science denialist and weatherman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/joe-bastardi\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Bastardi<\/a>\u00a0to two $10,000 bets.\u00a0Nye bet Bastardi, a regular guest on conservative media, that 2016 would be one of the top ten hottest years on record.<\/p>\n<p>He also bet Bastardi that the current decade would the hottest on record (Nye was responding to this November 2015 from Bastardi, published in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/38793\" target=\"_blank\">Patriot Post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"player\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4bDk-pPgbs?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a string of responses on Twitter, reported on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2016\/04\/20\/bill-nye-challenges-joe-bastardi\/\" target=\"_blank\">EcoWatch<\/a>, Bastardi dismissed Nye\u2019s bets, saying that in any case \u201cI don&#8217;t have 20k\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bets are the same as those Nye offered to another climate science denier,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/marc-morano\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Morano<\/a>, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/04\/11\/exclusive-climate-hustle-marc-morano-turns-down-20k-global-warming-bets-bill-nye-science-guy\" target=\"_blank\">revealed on DeSmog last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/planet-oz\/2016\/apr\/14\/why-even-climate-science-denialist-marc-morano-knows-not-to-bet-against-global-warming-data\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, one study published in a Royal Society journal last year shows that Nye would be almost certain to win. Any bets placed in any year after about 1970 against that current decade being warmer than the previous one would have lost.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the Upton Sinclair quote?\u00a0 Nye was pointing out that Bastardi was a regular guest speaker at fossil fuel industry events.<\/p>\n<p>Directing a statement at Bastardi, Nye said: \u201cWhere you speak is your business, but it also seems to be\u00a0<em>your business<\/em>, telling your audiences what they want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the \u2018Goebbels\u2019 Guy You might have heard that quote from outspoken American author Upton Sinclair, who once wrote: \u201cIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.\u201d The quote is often used to illustrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1840,13601,141,1517,11559,13602],"class_list":["post-20158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bill-nye","tag-bill-nye-the-science-guy","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-denial","tag-graham-readfearn","tag-joe-bastardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20159,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158\/revisions\/20159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}