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.
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.
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?
Prayers for swift containment and control, and the safety of the people in those two beautiful states.
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