I had always assumed it would be jailing bakers for refusing to make gay wedding cakes or wedding cakes with 9 year old bride figurines for Muslim weddings. But no, it may be for
questioning global warming.
Bill Nye, called "The Science Guy" after the kids' show he hosted for
PBS back in the 1990s, is up for jailing people who question climate
change.
Asked about environmental activist Robert Kennedy's assertion that
climate skeptics should be tried as war criminals, the TV personality
mused, "We’ll see what happens."
In a discussion of the case being brought by various state attorneys
general against ExxonMobil—an action that has led to subpoenas of
free-market think tanks such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute
(CEI)—Nye had this to say:
As a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about
climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen...
So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re
pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like
this....That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in
extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.
On May 7, 2001, the Hayden Planetarium sponsored a lecture by Jay Pasachoff, a solar astronomer investigating whether global warming was due to the Sun. Bill Nye's plan is obviously to arrest Neil deGrasse Tyson and reign supreme over pop science.
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