Actors. They Know Everything.

Bill Nye — “the Science Guy” — thinks that the recent deadly flooding in Louisiana is a result of climate change. That’s not surprising. Bill Nye thinks everything is the result of climate change. Flooding in Missouri is climate change. Tornadoes in Kentucky is climate change. Fire in Alaska is climate change. A morning thunderstorm in Houston is climate change. One time, there was a blizzard in New York in January. That was climate change, too. The event doesn’t even have to be weather-related. The Islamic State’s massacre of 130 people in Paris last year? You guessed it. 

When it comes to Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” it’s almost like “science” has nothing to do with it.

The problem with all of this is that we can't have a substantive conversation about climate when the public square is filled with opportunists and attention-seekers armed with a false sense of moral superiority and a great whack of politically-based grants and media attention.