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	Comments on: CNN hates on Bill Nye the Science Guy.  Nye will have none of it.	</title>
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		By: Stephanie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing she said was smart. Yeah, forest fires are caused because humans aren&#039;t clearing out the forests, and NOT because of the record high temperatures, and dry weather...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing she said was smart. Yeah, forest fires are caused because humans aren&#8217;t clearing out the forests, and NOT because of the record high temperatures, and dry weather&#8230;</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cedric, I don&#039;t understand you use of quote marks in your comment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cedric, I don&#8217;t understand you use of quote marks in your comment.</p>
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		By: Cedric Katesby		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cedric Katesby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@ Dave N.

&quot;I thought with the NIH scandal all the people promoting &quot;Tobacco causes cancer&quot; would have known the scam has been found out. But nope. You guys are still pushing your politicized agenda to control all individual freedoms.

Tobacco simply does not cause cancer. The NIH created bogus data to say that it does. Try reading something other than the MSM somethime.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Dave N.</p>
<p>&#8220;I thought with the NIH scandal all the people promoting &#8220;Tobacco causes cancer&#8221; would have known the scam has been found out. But nope. You guys are still pushing your politicized agenda to control all individual freedoms.</p>
<p>Tobacco simply does not cause cancer. The NIH created bogus data to say that it does. Try reading something other than the MSM somethime.&#8221;</p>
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		By: HalfMooner		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HalfMooner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Burgess, your screed exceeded the technical limit for the number of lunatic assertions in a short statement.   Thus it amounts to no rational statement at all, and no reply in detail is required.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burgess, your screed exceeded the technical limit for the number of lunatic assertions in a short statement.   Thus it amounts to no rational statement at all, and no reply in detail is required.</p>
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		By: Amoeba		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amoeba]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Burgess is a religious nut-job, bigoted, pig-ignorant of world affairs and proud of it, sounds like a Tea-Party candidate.

The Sooner the US can expunge this kind of individual from voting, owning guns, home-schooling, etc. the better. The future of the US is being held-back by such people and their bigoted opinions.
Better Public education is necessary.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burgess is a religious nut-job, bigoted, pig-ignorant of world affairs and proud of it, sounds like a Tea-Party candidate.</p>
<p>The Sooner the US can expunge this kind of individual from voting, owning guns, home-schooling, etc. the better. The future of the US is being held-back by such people and their bigoted opinions.<br />
Better Public education is necessary.</p>
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		By: Dave N		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave N]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought with the IPCC scandal all the people promoting AGW would have known the scam has been found out. But nope. You guys are still pushing your politicized agenda to control all the resources of the world.

Man simply does not cause climate change. The IPCC created bogus data to say that we do. Try reading something other than the MSM somethime.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought with the IPCC scandal all the people promoting AGW would have known the scam has been found out. But nope. You guys are still pushing your politicized agenda to control all the resources of the world.</p>
<p>Man simply does not cause climate change. The IPCC created bogus data to say that we do. Try reading something other than the MSM somethime.</p>
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		By: ET1 montoya		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ET1 montoya]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most everyone here has brought up some good points. I persoanlly believe more in science then any religion, but everyone gets their own opionin. The best part though is that I now know bill nye has a new show that I can watch when I come back to america.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most everyone here has brought up some good points. I persoanlly believe more in science then any religion, but everyone gets their own opionin. The best part though is that I now know bill nye has a new show that I can watch when I come back to america.</p>
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		By: Daniel J. Andrews		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel J. Andrews]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not sure this is CNN with a hate on for Bill Nye. Anchor is asking questions although the charge that he isn&#039;t a climate scientist is a silly one because he&#039;s just reporting what the climate scientists are saying, not contradicting them like some of the twits that don&#039;t even have a science background yet are afforded credibility by gullible--or biased--media.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not sure this is CNN with a hate on for Bill Nye. Anchor is asking questions although the charge that he isn&#8217;t a climate scientist is a silly one because he&#8217;s just reporting what the climate scientists are saying, not contradicting them like some of the twits that don&#8217;t even have a science background yet are afforded credibility by gullible&#8211;or biased&#8211;media.</p>
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		By: Evan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Probably the most important thing Bill Nye touches on is that uncertainty != doubt.  It is a huge and oft-repeated logical fallacy that if you don&#039;t know something absolutely (or if there is a little uncertainty) then you don&#039;t know it at all (or there is reason to doubt the whole thing).  Most things we don&#039;t know absolutely, but rather we have a great preponderance of evidence and thus very little uncertainty.

For example, let&#039;s say a police radar gun has an uncertainty of 4mph.  That means that whatever the radar gun says your speed is, X, you can only be sure that your true speed lies somewhere within the range of X-4 to X+4 mph.  If the radar gun measures your speed as 60mph, the policeman can be fairly confident that your speed lies between 56-64mph, but he doesnt know whether your speed is EXACTLY 60.  What he does know with a good deal of confidence, however, is that your speed is not 90mph or 10mph or even 50mph.  Using his radar gun he can clearly tell that your car is moving; there is no rational reason to doubt this fact, even though he is uncertain as to the exact speed which your car is moving.

At the same token, if the radar gun&#039;s uncertainty is 100mph, this would clearly be too large to be useful.  THEN a measurement of 60mph would be &quot;doubtful&quot; because the uncertainty is too large.  In the case of climate change, all of the evidence points to a relatively small uncertainty, even if the exact outcome is not known perfectly.  That&#039;s how science works.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Probably the most important thing Bill Nye touches on is that uncertainty != doubt.  It is a huge and oft-repeated logical fallacy that if you don&#8217;t know something absolutely (or if there is a little uncertainty) then you don&#8217;t know it at all (or there is reason to doubt the whole thing).  Most things we don&#8217;t know absolutely, but rather we have a great preponderance of evidence and thus very little uncertainty.</p>
<p>For example, let&#8217;s say a police radar gun has an uncertainty of 4mph.  That means that whatever the radar gun says your speed is, X, you can only be sure that your true speed lies somewhere within the range of X-4 to X+4 mph.  If the radar gun measures your speed as 60mph, the policeman can be fairly confident that your speed lies between 56-64mph, but he doesnt know whether your speed is EXACTLY 60.  What he does know with a good deal of confidence, however, is that your speed is not 90mph or 10mph or even 50mph.  Using his radar gun he can clearly tell that your car is moving; there is no rational reason to doubt this fact, even though he is uncertain as to the exact speed which your car is moving.</p>
<p>At the same token, if the radar gun&#8217;s uncertainty is 100mph, this would clearly be too large to be useful.  THEN a measurement of 60mph would be &#8220;doubtful&#8221; because the uncertainty is too large.  In the case of climate change, all of the evidence points to a relatively small uncertainty, even if the exact outcome is not known perfectly.  That&#8217;s how science works.</p>
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		By: Mike		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t worry not all Texans are as anachronistic as Burgess is.  Many of us can actually understand the validity of facts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry not all Texans are as anachronistic as Burgess is.  Many of us can actually understand the validity of facts.</p>
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