Climate activists are putting pressure on television personality Bill Nye the “Science Guy” not to attend President Trump’s State of the Union next week, saying that doing so would make him a bigot and climate denier.
“Bill, please be the Science Guy, not the Bigoted Climate Denial Guy,” said climate activist groups ClimateTruth.org, Climate Hawks Vote, MoveOn.org, and Demand Progress in a petition sent to Nye on Friday with thousands of signatures asking him not to attend the address.
“Cancel your plans to attend Trump’s State of the Union as Rep. [Jim] Bridenstine’s guest,” it said. Bridenstine is Trump’s pick to lead NASA and a target of the groups that call him a climate denier.
Nye, who recognizes climate change, is still planning to attend the president’s Tuesday night address as the guest of Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, his office confirmed, calling the activists’ petition “foolishness.”
Bridenstine is being pressured by the groups to withdraw from his nomination as Trump’s NASA chief. The liberal activist groups have launched a website called stopbridenstine.com to oppose him.
“Jim Bridenstine is a fossil fuel industry-funded politician with no science background who denies the reality of climate change,” according to ClimateTruth.org.
“He has no business running NASA,” the activist’s petition read. “As you know, NASA performs critical climate science research and if the Senate confirms Bridenstine’s nomination he could work with President Trump to end NASA’s earth science missions and ground essential research satellites.”
Nye said last week that he plans to attend the State of the Union to hear firsthand what Trump plans for space exploration in his second-year budget.
Nye is president and CEO of the Planetary Society, which advocates for space science and exploration.
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The Climate Hawks? Make that the Climate Turkeys maybe Nye just had a alternative education nit run by the greens
It would be nice to see Nye put his abilities into sparking greater interest in space science and exploration .
I hope you mean a one-way ticket to Mars.
I am no fan of Bill Nye. Like so many others he considers liberal politics to be more important the true science. However, pressuring him not to attend President Trump’s State of the Union is a violation of Bill Nye’s freedom. Calling someone a bigot, just like calling someone a moron, says nothing about the object of the abuse. It does say a whole lot of bad things about those doing the name calling.
NASA has been guilty of rampant fraud for years. The latest Climate Dispatch article is here.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/tony-hellers-climate-forecast-from-three-years-ago/
We really, really need someone in charge that will restore honesty and direct the organization into legitimate research.
….and handle the resistance .
The Climate Actvists need to go and live on mars Marvin needs the target practice
Its really simple – politcal activists care about the politics.
Scientists care about the truth.
Bill needs to decide which camp he is in……
The climate actvists are afraid of the truth they fear as more people look on it and find Global Warming?Climate Change to be the big time hoax it always has been
Bill Nye has probably seen enough and decided to make his last couple decades mean something .