“Science Guy” Bill Nye Beclowns Himself with Ridiculous Claims About Hurricanes, Carolina Fires
Two more serious climate scientists counter Nye’s claims. Also, a look at the current fires in the Carolinas.
The last time I wrote about “Science Guy” Bill Nye, Biden had dishonored the Presidential Medal of Freedom by awarding this shameless pseudoscience promoter.
Nye was back peddling climate cultism. This time, it was an interview on CNN, in which he asserted without data or proof that hurricanes were becoming more frequent and the Carolina fires could be tied to “climate change”.
You can pretend it’s climate’s not changing and hurricanes aren’t becoming more frequent and flooding isn’t more. There’s tforest fires wildfires in in the Carolinas. That didn’t used to be a thing.
As a reminder, Bill Nye holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Let’s see what some real climate scientists say about these assertions.
Chris Martz is a meteorology student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. He will graduate in 2025 with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology and a minor in Emergency Management. He has gained attention for his critical views on climate alarmism and related policies, often challenging climate change’s severity and human cause. Despite being labeled as a “climate denier,” Martz does not deny climate change itself but argues against what he perceives as exaggerated narratives.
He challenged Nye’s statement about hurricanes directly with some hard data.
Hey @BillNye.
On CNN this morning, you claimed that hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
So, I accessed the data, put it into an Excel workbook and plotted it with Python.
Can you show me the increase on this graph?
https://t.co/D0b3ulPRdI pic.twitter.com/iUKsXt6fjM
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) March 3, 2025
Now, let’s take a look at Nye’s theories that wildfires in the Carolinas “didn’t used to be a thing.” I have mentioned Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki in prior posts, as he is a geoscientist with a background in geochemistry, planetary science, and climate. He gained attention for announcing his resignation from the University of Alabama over its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Wielicki plotted out the number of fires in the Carolinas over time. I suspect Legal Insurrection readers will be stunned to learn the trend isn’t as Nye claimed.
Did you know that #SouthCarolinaWildfires are way down and have nothing to do with climate change…
Congratulations, now you do. pic.twitter.com/DFqGpvI3WA
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) March 4, 2025
Interestingly, a little time on the internet using one of the many search options available uncovers that in 1898 (4 years before the automobile was invented), a series of wildfires ravaged approximately 3 million acres across North and South Carolina, making it one of the worst fires in U.S. history.
It is literally #1 on the list of the “Largest Wildfires in US History Based on Land Acreage”.
As I mentioned the Carolina wildfires, I would like to note that over 175 fires were reported during the weekend in South Carolina, with at least six actively burning as of Monday. In North Carolina, over 200 wildfires were reported, covering almost 2,100 acres, with at least 17 still actively burning as of this report.
The good news is that firefighters in the Carolinas appeared to be getting the upper hand on these blazes, and may be helped out a bit by the incoming storm.
In hard-hit South Carolina, a 1,600-acre blaze in the Carolina Forest community just outside Myrtle Beach city limits was at least 30% contained, the South Carolina Forestry Commission said in a statement.
Imagery from the Myrtle Beach region Monday morning showed a shroud of smoke enveloping parts of the low-lying terrain and creating a wall of low visibility. Horry County Fire Rescue, the fire agency with local jurisdiction, said residents should beware of low visibility caused by smoke through Tuesday morning.
…In North Carolina, fires in all four of the state’s national forests remained active Monday, with burned areas estimated to total nearly 500 acres, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
No containment estimate was available, but the service said in a statement Monday that crews were excavating containment lines and using “mechanized equipment to manage heavy fuel loads partly due to Hurricane Helene,” which wrought destruction in the Southeast last year as it moved inland to Tennessee and North Carolina, creating catastrophic flooding and killing more than 200 people in its path.
The drop from 175 to 6, and 200 to 17 is impressive. What magic do the Carolinas have that California does not?
You do realize the video shows water coming out of the fire hoses in South Carolina … right?
Water that Los Angeles Firefighters did NOT have:
… “DESPERATION: Firefighter uses traffic cone to retrieve water from a puddle as LA is running out of water”… pic.twitter.com/bHGEZDLtzv
— Don Penim (@Don_Penim) March 2, 2025
Prayers for swift containment and control, and the safety of the people in those two beautiful states.
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Bill Nye, the CREEPY science guy.
Well, at least he was never awarded a Presidential Commendation like Trump did for Fauci. So he has that going for him.
No, just the Medal of Freedom, a much HIGHER civilian honor.
Bill Nye, The Propaganda Guy
Bill’s surname is misspelled. It’s actually “Lye.”
Science doesn’t do well in public. There are more perverse incentives than usual.
Momma always said, “Hire the handicapped. They are fun to watch.”
Bill Nye, the Dee-Dee-Dee* guy!
*Carlos Mencia
Mechanical engineer Bill Nye.
“Our climate cult is not a cult!”
In related news, Punitive Damages Award in Mann v. Steyn Reduced from $1M to $5K.
Still $5K too much.
Good grief, Billy boy. I’ve lived in SC for all 60 years of existence, and forest fires here are nothing new.
Besides, it was 1600 acres of worthless sandy soil and scrub oak trees with zero value.
Just looking at that creep, I’m thinking there is a really, really good chance he is a pedo.
I have to laugh every time some “expert” declares that we have “more hurricanes”. I guess they forgot that we have those weather satellite thingys up there that can see hurricanes that never impact a land mass. So for the last 60 or so years, we are aware of hurricanes that might never have been counted, outside of a ship blundering into the storm. Funny too, how the “Bermuda Triangle” doesn’t seem to be doing much these days. Must be impacted by climate change too…
You give Nye too much credit. I understand he’s an engineer, not a real scientist. Apologies to engineers, but you know what I’m saying- he speaks to things far outside of engineering. Second, it’s no great achievement to beclown yourself when your nature actually is clownish. Goofballs gotta be Goofy.
Bill Nye the Sex Junk Guy: https://youtu.be/VtJFb_P2j48?si=Il0boXORuT7v-oea
The prediction “more and more powerful hurricanes” was a lie. The atmosphere is a heat engine. Heat engines produce energy by moving heat from where it is to where it isn’t. Hurricanes are powered by the heat engine moving heat from the air over tropical waters to higher latitudes which are colder. The climate models all predicted relatively more warming in the midlatitudes than in equatorial regions. This means the difference between the heat in the equatorial regions and the midlatitudes would be reduced not increased. This would actually throttle back the heat engine, not rev it up. It would result in fewer, less powerful hurricanes, exactly the opposite of what they claimed would happen due to “global warming.” But climate change can’t be sold as an existential threat if it can have positive outcomes, so no risk/benefit analysis is done by the alarmists and they lie by denying there are potential benefits to climate change.
You can make that claim but that isn’t what scientists think, the fact is Chris Martz own source indicated an increase in Cat3+ hurricanes
If you really understood what I wrote, you would not have made that comment. My point is that the “global warming” predicted by their own models should have reduced the number and intensity of hurricanes. If there’s an increase in the number and/or magnitude of hurricanes (and I’m neither denying nor admitting what you wrote is true), that’s an indication of cooling in the midlatitudes, because an increase in the temperature gradient between the tropics and the midlatitudes would spin up the heat engine, not turn it down. Unless, of course, their climate models are wrong, because they’d be defying physics.
The point being is that they lied about the effects of the warming predicted by their own models. If they’re able to point to an increased number of hurricanes, this fact wouldn’t support their claims of warming, it would confound them.
BTW, until the advent of weather satellites, hurricane reportage (their mere existence, their locations, their directions, and their intensities) depended on ships or the hurricanes arriving near-shore or having landfall. Because ships travel in shipping lanes (and because not all hurricanes come near shore), and because their co-location with any given hurricane is transitory, the data they are able to supply is spotty. They do not report all hurricanes. They do not always report a hurricane’s maximum strength. They do not report complete paths. And so on. Real trends can’t be identified from a reliable record (created by the use of satellites) that’s only a handful of decades long. That’s a mere spot on a timescale of only a few thousand years, and insufficient to demonstrate any long-term trend of the climate.
Yeah attacking a strawman probably makes climate deniers feel better. The scientific claim is that intensities of hurricanes is increasing not that they are more frequent. Using the same data set as Chris Martz you can plot the graph and find that this is true. His own source proves this to be true. Sorry climate deniers, you lose (again)
That’s really irrelevant. Climate change alarmists claim the climate is responding to anthropogenic CO2. This has yet to be demonstrated or proved. It’s a theory.
It also presumes that we’ve already past some point of “optimum” climate conditions. Who decided that? Do real climate scientists believe the climate was stable before the industrial age? Of course they don’t. The climate not only changes, it can change on a very short timescale (e.g., the Roman warm period, the Medieval optimum, the Little Ice Age), no human input needed. IF the climate is changing now, there’s no proof that it’s related to human activity, because we know it has changed in the past when humans couldn’t have been the cause. What we are seeing may be mere correlation, not causation. There is no proof for causation. Climate theorists models have yet to predict short-term changes accurately, indicating their models are faulty. (Note that most climate researchers build their own climate models, indicating they have no faith in each other’s models.) But even accurate models don’t prove anything. Anyone can make a model of the climate that reacts to inputs. Models can also be tailored to produce a specific output in response to specific inputs (that is, they are subject to confirmation bias). But one must also prove those inputs work the same way in the real world. This has not been done. Models only demonstrate (not prove) one thing – how something might work. They do not prove how things work. Indeed, climate scientists acknowledge that they don’t know what caused the afore-mentioned rapid, short-term climate changes. If they don’t know why the climate changed in the past, why should anyone think they can determine how it will change in the future?
Indigenous people living along the world’s coasts immediately after the last glacial period would have been forced to move inland as the sea encroached on their villages. They blamed the gods. We blame ourselves because we’re the gods now. They were wrong. We are right?
“His own source proves this to be true.”
Uh no, some dude’s model doesn’t prove sh*t. That’s why they call it a model. It’s an educated guess at best
“Yeah attacking a strawman probably makes climate deniers feel better.”
“Climate deniers” is an ad hominem. Nobody denies the existence of climate. It is the specific claim of anthropogenic climate change that is being questioned. The word “denier” is specifically chosen because of its association with Holocaust deniers.
Bill Nye thr psuedoscience guy.
Whenever I see Bill Nye I always have to wonder if Jim Henson modeled Beaker after him.
https://drive.proton.me/urls/F9NMPYWBE0#osv8uDtz1Gaj
“The drop from 175 to 6, and 200 to 17 is impressive. What magic do the Carolinas have that California does not? […] in North Carolina, fires in all four of the state’s national forests remained active Monday, with burned areas
estimated to total nearly 500 acres.” […] In North Carolina, over 200 wildfires were reported, covering almost 2,100 acres, with at least 17 still actively burning as of this report.”
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500-2,100 acre fires.
The Texas panhandle Smokehouse Creek wildfire burned 1,000,000 acres – touched off by a power pole breaking and tree limbs falling across power lines during a very nasty windstorm.
Oak and chaparral scrubland windstorms (70-100mph) driving wildfires. That’s the difference between the current fires on the east coast and western state fires.