From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Will You Fucking Screechers PLEASE Take 5 Seconds To Research Your Lies?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 18:41:24 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" said on CNN this morning that forest fires never used to happen in the Carolinas until now.
https://x.com/i/status/1896708620701802756
"The climate is changing."
No shit. S'been doing that for BILLIONS of years, science-fag.
"There's forest fires, wildfires in the Carolinas-that didn't used to be a thing, everybody."
That sounds scary. Big, if true.
But, had Nye done any actual research, he might be aware that his DNC talking points don't quite square with the facts.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlJuOZJaAAA-WPm?format=png&name=900x900
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlJzeNRbcAAozrD?format=jpg&name=large
The South Carolina
@ForestryCommish
(SCFC) has a wealth of information on their website.
Based on the last 30 years of data, ~3,000 fires break out in South Carolina each year.
About 18,000 acres are set ablaze annually.
229,908 acres of land burned in 1950 alone, the most in a single calendar year in the Palmetto state. Of the top 10 years with the most fire burn acreage, nine of them were prior to 1970 and seven of
them were at least 70 years ago.
Annual fire burn acreage has decreased by 72.5% (1950-79 vs. 1994-2023). Any emergent climate signal is masked by interannual variability and increased fire suppression in the area.
https://scfc.gov/protection/fire-burning/fire-resources/wildfire-in-south-carolina/
https://scfc.gov/protection/fire-burning/fire-resources/wildfire-statistics/
The largest [official] fire on record in South Carolina was the Clear Pond Fire of April 10-15,1976. It began as an unattended campfire between Conway and Myrtle Beach, and ended up burning 30,000
acres of land in Horry County in the span of five days.
For perspective, the current blaze has burned 1,600 acres.
https://scfc.gov/protection/fire-burning/fire-resources/wildfire-history/
An even larger fire occurred in mid-February 1898. It seared through an estimated three million acres that stretched from Aiken County, South Carolina to Chatham County, North Carolina, and killed at
least 14 people in its path.
https://newspapers.com/image/174097851/?terms=forest%20fire&match=1
https://wffoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Great-Fire-1898-Final-v2.pdf
Bill Nye has no clue what he's talking about.
He's just making stuff up and the CNN "journalists" nod in blind agreement.
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Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² Explains EVERYTHING!
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes for shorter winters, except for when it makes for longer winters.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² means less snow, except for when Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² means more snow.
And Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes droughts in California and floods in Texas and Oklahoma and generally makes wet places wetter and dry places dryer, except when it makes wet places drier
and dry places wetter, except when none of that changes at all, and then Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² explains that too!
And Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes more hurricanes at the same time as it causes less hurricanes.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes more rain but less water... and less rain but more water?
And Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes more water vapour in the atmosphere, at the same time it causes less rain... and less water vapour in the atmosphere, when it causes MORE rain?
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² decreases the spread of malaria at the same time as it increases the spread of malaria.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes San Francisco foggier... Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes San Francisco less foggy.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes duller autumn leaves... Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes shinier autumn leaves.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes for less salty seas... Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes for saltier seas.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² causes the polar ice caps to melt... Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² also causes the polar ice caps to freeze.
Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² makes the Earth hotter, unless the Earth isn't getting hotter... in which case, Climate Change/Global Warming/CO² can explain that too.
What's the problem here? This sounds like the perfect scientific theory. It can explain literally everything including self contradictory things.
This means it's absolutely perfect, doesn't it?
Well no, not according to Karl Popper and the philosophers of science and within the philosophy of science there's something called the demarcation problem... how do you differentiate science from
pseudo-science?
The left won't LET you, and brands you a denierrrrrrr(whining).