Science Literacy vs. Climate Change Deniers, with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye 

In a parallel universe, there's a version of Bill Nye which doesn't endorse climate change. He would be Bill Nye, the Denial Guy.

I ate and now I'm not hungry - therefore, there is no more world hunger ...

If more people listened to these guys, the world would be a better place.

Hey! Where can I see the whole podcast?

i want to see them react to the bill nye vs sir issac newton rap battle

Any way to view all these but full episodes? It gives so much more to actually look at you talk vs just podcast with sound.

Can we get full length episodes on a regular schedule?

Love Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. I hope I can meet them someday.

("As we say in sailboat racing". The ultimate Bill Nye quote.) Scientific literacy is an absolute need.

Imagine if people were able to see this 40-75 years ago, two African American men, also two of the smartest people in the country, talking about climate change through the Internet.

Hey StarTalk Radio, i wanna ask a Question: If we could attach the Moon to the Earth permanently, lets say, a Tower. How would it affect the Earths rotation in the System? Would the Rotation of the Moon alter Earth's since its attached now? Tide would be affected as well? Love the Show, Hanazaki

The quality of these videos keeps getting better.

2:30 Neil acting like he doesnt know the camera is on him. xD

Dr. Nye, I feel like I am behind the curve on science as a whole. I understand the subjects but can't give an answer with out some amount of smoke. I am very interested in how things work, and I am never one to settle for "because it is" type answers, but I don't find any out side stimuli, other then self research and your show with Dr. Tyson, from my day to day life, army and pc gamer. I am a very social learner and I would like to advance my scientific understanding, but as i said, there is no social out let for me to vent and receive feed back on my studies. How would you have me go about this problem?

But I like it big, and when I take all of this into my heart and my mind, I am uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it's real. humbling and characterbuilding

The most impressive thing about this video is the realization of just how amazing Ken M. really is

The biggest obstacle to addressing the climate change issues is economics.

What puzzles me is why the alarmists can’t put together a convincing argument after 50 years of investigation and huge grants, whereas the sceptics, who get no grants, can and easily do. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Dr Tyson, Take it easy on Chuck. No need to correct him every time he uses the wrong word. Chuck... You did use the wrong word.

I keep watching Bill and Neil... I keep wanting then to address the top claims by skeptics... And they just keep insulting people and making end of the world type alarmists claims.

I'm a scientifically literature person, but also a middle class single mother. How do I help. I vote, I write my Congressman, I petition my state Representative. What else can I do?

why don't they ever have actual climatologist on to speak about climate change

Not to be down on religion, but the only reasons people believe it is because it was literally the only source of knowledge for hundreds of years. Why can't humanity just get a little less ignorant than a rock?

I know "Intelligent design" isn't accurate science, but I like the concept because it opens the door for kids of creationist parents to have access to scientific principals that could ultimately allow them to look at Ken Ham and realize that his beliefs are 2500 years behind the times.

There is no atmospheric hotspot The feedbacks implemented in the computer models have caused great exaggeration in the climate predictions. The climate will always change. Man is affecting that, so do cows.

"I say that all the time when I race my sail boats" RIP Bill

I would recommend Bill Nye to read e.g. the study of Ana-Maria Bliuc's (et al.) study on peer group identity and acceptance of climate change. They (and other studies, Naomi Klein's latest book's introductory chapters make also for a nice overview of the subject) and others find, that people with a comparable and high level of scientific literacy of different groups come to different conclusions on the urgency of climate change action based on their social background. This is not only relevant on the national debate level, but in terms of emissions, much more on the global scale - and impossibly harder to solve than to convince deniers in the developed world. Many Indians I have talked with recognize the climate change problem and feel deeply about it. Yet at the same time, how can you even try to find the moral highground to deny billions of people the highest achievable living standard in the shortest amount of time - a human lifespan? As Vaclav Smil has shown in his books, the level of living standards and GDP per capita is linearly correlated with energy consumption and CO2 emissions. And so, the economic urgency to deploy the power needed will prevent renewables to catch up with that longing. Not overruling scientific literacy, but recognizing the force of more essential needs.

I can't believe I hadn't been subscribed to this channel before CinemaSins sent me here...

I seriously get the feeling sometimes that the folks on this show don't give Chuck the benefit of the doubt. Sure, his main job in the studio is to make jokes. But sometimes, sometimes, he's making a serious - AND VALID - statement, and Neil and/or Bill will shut him down, and that's not cool.

I think the key is those particular people w/their hands on the levers of power. If these politicians merely personally disbelieved in climate change, then why would they make it a centerstone issue in their campaigns? What motive would they have? After all, as an example, how does it hurt them if more people use solar, even if they are correct about climate change and there's truly no need for anyone to go solar? Its still more jobs and more money in the pockets of their constituents and even if it did no environmental good, it certainly does no environmental harm. Even if they were right, the issue wouldn't, by itself, be worthy of making a stink over. But they do because simple belief is not their motive, its that their richest donors want them to derail attempts fighting climate change on their behalf, so that they can protect their bottom line. And to get elected and stay elected so that they can do the bidding of their richest donors, they have to convince enough voters to agree, or at least doubt - so their donors spend, through PAC's and such, more money than all of us watching this video combined make in a year, on ads to get their politician elected. Its that important to them. Not just some weird personal belief. There's no way the science literate are going to catch up, not when the climate change deniers are willing to move the earth and spend such wealth in order sway people otherwise. We need in some way to make it far more profitable to fight climate change than it is to deny it. And by 'profitable' i don't mean - in the interest of humanity. That unfortunately is not great enough of a motivator. It already is and has been known to be in the interests of humanity to fight climate change and look where we are now in spite of this. No, I mean cold hard bottom line on the accounting books kind of profitable, money in the bank kind of profitable. Otherwise, the best case scenario is that they'll merely delay or dilute efforts to fight climate change, which is still potentially enough to have catastrophic results down the line. Worst case scenario is they'll increase the acceleration rate of climate change to even greater degrees. Need to take their hands off the levers of power, or get enough disagreeing hands on other levers of power, or to get these lever handlers to agree w/us by making it profitable for them to do so, so that they use these levers for everyone's benefit (even if their motives are selfish).

I'm not a religious person but my question is how many ice ages have there been? If there has been many doesn't that mean the Earth has a natural tendency to heat up and cool down on its own.

I wish that I was standing there when these great people were talkiing :D

I loved it when NDT promptly corrected the guy who said "eminent" instead of "imminent". Gosh, where are teachers like you these days? These days, if you correct people, they come up with some idiotic retort like "You must be great at parties" or "That's what I heard people I know say, so it can't be wrong".

well, that is a downer of a ending :(

It most emphatically does NOT depend on who you ask. People may differ in their opinions, but there is only one correct answer, and everyone else is just wrong.

Please for one moment have an open mind. I am in no way a climate change denier - I truly believe that human activities are causing an increase in greenhouse gasses, which is a major contributor to climate change. My real question is this; in what way can science accurately quantify & qualify the claims of impact on our civilisation & way off life. By what measure can you honestly put your hand on your heart & say, "Without change, if we continue down the path we're going, THESE EVENTS will occur by this date". How much of the discussion on climate change is factual prediction & how much is doom and gloom/fear mongering?. If the Earth can recover from extinction level events like 6 mile meteor impacts, how "significant" is global warming in the big scheme of things? Sure we need to move forward with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but is "the threat" from Global Warming ever so slightly exaggerated? Science needs funding & it pays to be skeptical on both sides of the fence...

We are still at the end of the last ice age, the planet is getting warmer with or without our help... other planets are also warming up. What if there is positive effects of global warming and more CO2, many farmers pump co2 into green houses to grow plants more optimally, the plants are benefiting from the co2 in the air and growing more faster and removing that co2. things will change, and some spots will look bad,.. but others will be able to grow food they weren't able too,.. change sucks, but what if over all the planet is getting better for humans with the warming? lets say its doom and gloom, what do we do to stop it,.. USA alone can not stop this,.. chiana , rusia , and enemies of ours are laughing at us being hippies,.. developing countries will not stop. you will not stop global warming with the laws you guys want,.. t will only make us weaker while other gather resources and power.. and as abusive as you think America is with its power, wait till you get a load of the new bosses. we need an economy and resources, I rather speed up to new technologies burning the sheet out of oil then walking our way there with a collapse economy.

Mr. Chuck Nice has a very true point starting 2:28 min. Deniers will always find a way to deny no matter what happens. Nevermind if it is warmer/hotter than ever , it's definitly not the climate change.

Show us the graphs neil!!!!!!$!

Ken M is a notorious troll. Don't take him seriously.

The panel of, "who can sound the smartest"

what about cosmologist that deny climate change that say that the earth is heating up according to the fluctuations of the suns surface temperature?

These guys are so proud of themselves.

This is a straw man

The name "denier" implies something that cannot be questioned. Something of almost religious conviction. This is also reflected in the intolerance of different views even being heard on this topic. This is rather inappropriate since you are discussing science,something that should be permitted to be discussed freely,especially by scientists. Even Neil was more liberal when discussing the topic of religion,refusing to be identified as an atheist due to his scientific mind-set. Refusing to exclaim to the world that he does not accept something that by all standards imaginably is demonstrably false in the name of the spirit of science and yet willing to brand anyone who disputed the level of climate change(not the fact that it happens and that humans influence it,nobody disagrees on that. Its the significance that is disputed) ,something that no accurate scientific predictions have ever been made on and something that is still ripe for scientific discussion a "denier"? I detect cognitive dissonance. Name-calling never plays a role in healthy discussions,maybe if your having a religious discussion in the Dark Ages and you want to call someone a "heretic" then it would have some place.

Oh, that's what Chuck Nice looks like.

This panel is not communicating with each other

If climate change is real and sea levels will rise, i wonder why banks still give out loans to people who live in targeted areas.

Why make climate change a scary thing, it's normal and has occurred and reoccurred for quite sometime now.

Looks like I need to get the fuck out of Miami now don't I...

ugh depressing... im glad im not the only one that can admit the world might actually be ending. People often say im exaggerating or flat out lieing.

Assuming the entire world was America, this argument might have some actual basis in reality. But considering most of us don't live the United States, and most of the 7 billion people on this earth are not scientifically minded and have no way to access science based ideas (How many kids in the slums of Calcutta are surfing the internet? How many countries have firewalls?) Even if the United States went completely solar and wind and battery driven cars, it would not change a thing. Of top 500 dirtiest cities in the world, not one resides in the United States.

CO2 does not cause global warming because... CO2 is a heavy gas Being one of the heaviest gas molecules in the atmosphere CO2 stays low, hugging the ground and allowing plants to photosynthesize. Have you ever heard of plants thriving in the higher atmosphere? According to the climate change theories, the biggest problem is the CO2 which is somehow getting into the higher atmosphere, this way creating the greenhouse effect. Now, how can a very heavy gas rise up where there's little or no air? I'd like to see a mechanism that allows the CO2 gas to be high up and low down at the same time. People I asked about this gave at least a whole page of "facts" that none of which made sense and are often contradicting each other. Truth shouldn't be complicated. If it is, it's probably a lie.

What ever happened to environmental awareness and sustainability?... what is all this vague climate change b.s. I know I am the odd man out here but the approach these guys have taken to explain their positions on climate change just doesn't seem rational, and rather sensationalistic. Comparing those who disagree with new and radical information to hardcore creationists is a good example of this sensationalism. I think they are authentically passionate because they are scared for the planet and our species, but that does not mean they are being sound in diverting almost all public attention away from established and needed environmental sustainability efforts. I personally care more about the pollution in all its horrible forms caused by cars in general and less about carbon specifically. How about our water and food supply? etc.

That guy looks like a smart version of George Bush:p

He did say eminent😂

The Pacific northwest is FINALLY habitable. No denying THAT! pshaw!...

I like Tyson and Nye but please remove Chuck Nice :(

Those Creationists seem to forget that the Chinese calendar is already over 6,000 years old. I guess we Asians and our Celestial Bureaucracy Pantheon of gods predate god. Trollolol.

Grrreattt

I love you guys another great videooo

Everybody should watch this.

Were is your proof???? Show us the proof...they cant cause if u saw the graphs u would clearly see the lies

Lol I like neil the grammar nazi! He did say emenant

Imagine Neil and Bill debating/owning the deniers lol.

this is a scientist talk show but all these people are entertainment I guess the real scientist are not that entertaining

Why is Neil always wearing that white lab coat?

I absolutely adore Bill Nye! 😍💗

Just goes to show that religion is and always had, held science and world back.

I'm religious but creationists are ignorant. I believe God created the earth because he created and set in motion all it is made of, along with the rest of the universe. A "day" is likely a figurative term meaning "A set interval of time". I also believe we humans have greater intelligence than animals and are therefore responsible for this planet and we are to keep it clean and in good order.

They never show u any evidence...i wonder y that iss?????

Grand solar minimum denier

Bill Nye sounds like a white Barack Obama

Remove chuck

Show us the graphs neil....the solar cycle graphs....the earth is cooling....

Chuck Nice, comedians don't dress that well. :)

HISSSS you thought you were safe but the reptilians will arise

What we have here is a wonderful echo chamber setup for ignorant ears. I would like to see these two debating scientists like Lindzen, Dyson, Happer, Legates, Soon, Michaels, Giaever, Curry, Shaviv, Spencer, Christy, etc. I am sure that they will never dare to do so because they know that they‘ ll get their behinds kicked hard!!

We r gonna reach a tipping point..the earth is cooling fast!!!

It's so sad how Christians give up on the earth. As a person who believes strongly in both God and science, I would think it's our job as Christians to be blessings to the world. That means taking responsibility for the mess we've made of earth and doing our best to fix it, not twiddling our thumbs until Jesus comes.

climate change who cares ..

we are in serious trouble. undersea methane deposits are starting to release their contents to the surface. dumping methane in to the atmosphere. this is going to cause a positive feedback loop that is going to kill most life on earth. we may already be at that tipping point today.

science

50 years or less for everyone to wake up imo

Show them how co2 levels rise everytime we go into a solar minimum...show them neil...tell them the earth is trying its best to produce co2 to keep us from all freezing....u r an evil mann!!!

In 50 years rom now humanity will be mocking these guys for the BS they are spewing! They aren’t as smart as they think.

I'm so attracted to Bill Nye and absolutely adore him! 😍 💗

You guys lost - theres been and never will be global warming due to people