http://mic.com/articles/140966/sarah-palin-says-bill-nye-isn-t-a-real-scientist-he-is#.ukvA4yCCO
By Melanie Ehrenkranz April 15, 2016Palin, climate change truther and the former governor of Alaska, made the claim Thursday in Capitol Hill while promoting her film Climate Hustle.
“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said. “He’s a kids’ show actor, he’s not a scientist.”
Nye, the science educator, television host and CEO of the Planetary Society and fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, where he also taught as a visiting professor. Nye worked at Boeing for years before becoming an entertainer. He is still an active scientist: Nye even developed sundials used in NASA’s Mars rover missions.
Palin claims that by saying global warming is manmade, “fearmonger” scientists are holding us back, according to the Hill. Palin also coaxed parents to pass down climate change skepticism to their children and to “ask those questions and not just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.”Palin targeted Nye likely due to his appearance in the film she was promoting, a film conservative news site Breitbart called “dynamite,” and Cal Thomas, who compares belief in climate change to belief in the tooth fairy, reportedly called “tremendous.”
Nye published his own video Tuesday on YouTube to discuss Climate Hustle, pleading with Morano to reverse his stance on climate change.
“If you embraced mainstream science just think of the good you could do,” Nye said. “I’m not kidding, man, I’m not joking with you. Just think what you could do for the world if you came around. You could be a force for good.”
Morano also asks Nye if it was embarrassing for him to watch clips from a documentary painting Nye’s side of the climate change movement as incorrect. To which Nye succinctly responds: “No.”
Exposing the Big Game 
It would be funny as hell if she didn’t have a constituency as dumb as she is.
She is just one example of the unreality bubble of the republican party gone off the deep end. See The Republican Mind by Chris Mooney.
The Republican Mind is an interesting book. After studying results of polls, psychological testing, and scans, Mooney determined that those who vote republican have different personality traits and cognitive function. Thus the current dialog that convinces democrats about climate change meets with resistance and denial among republicans and the approach needs to change. But since the facts cannot be altered, it’s hard to imagine how a difference in diction or rhetoric will make the science any more palatable to the unbelievers. The problem is not just that the scientific studies that point to changes in the earth and its atmosphere are descriptive of what is happening, they are prescriptive for needed change. And when that change is bound to affect corporate profits, cause job loss, and demand changes in lifestyle, the science will very likely be denied by those who want the world and their lives to remain the same.
Yes it is a whole different psyche. Anyone who has been watching the Republican and Democratic debates can see that the two parties and the unique constituencies they represent are animated by totally different agendas and informed by wholly different sets of facts. The only real way to tell who is right and who is wrong is to examine those facts objectively in which case it is easy to distinguish which political party and its followers live in a fantasy world. Which directly leads to the old joke about what does10,000 Republicans chained together at the bottom of the ocean represent? Answer: A start.
But the Democrats, although living in the real world as opposed to the fantasy version, are only marginally better. After listening to all the Democratic debates and the endlessly repetitive questions about who voted for the Iraq war and who did not, who will break up the big banks sooner, who will reform health care better, or who is the more enthusiastic supporter of the LGBT community … I’m still waiting for one journalist or one member of the public at one of these town hall meetings to ask a single, solitary question about wildlife or wild lands preservation. Or about Senator Sanders support of the “Bipartisan Sportsman’s Act” or about the unprecedented expansion of hunting and trapping in national wildlife refuges that occurred during the Clinton years or about the highly-successful efforts now underway in Congress abetted by the shameful acquiescence of the Obama administration to undermine and emasculate the Endangered Species Act. Just one measly question pertaining to the welfare of wild animals, just one. The fact that NOBODY is even posing such questions to the candidates despite seemingly endless opportunities shows just how low a priority wildlife have with the public in general. Any wildlife advocate who contributes one penny to either of the major political parties needs their head examined. It make one wonder if there is really any point even of voting in a corporation-run idiocracy such as the United States.
Good points, all
You got it. The dems are only marginally better, especially nowadays. Why we need loaded guns in the National Parks and wildlife refuges really has me mystified; I hope to see this reversed someday. We can see what delisting the wolf has done, and now we want to do the same thing to the grizzly bears! Completely ignoring the Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act, the government basically breaking the law! The sage grouse are in limbo. The gall of trying to ‘improve’ upon the ESA!!!! Dan Ashe picking what animals can live or die, and ‘accompany us on the ark’ (a sinking ship if you ask me).
It’s very dismaying, especially under a democratic administration.
As though this bimbo could recognize a real scientist even if she tripped over one in the hallway!
Right. As if.