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Neil DeGrasse Tyson SLAMS Climate Deniers After Harvey
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September 1, 2017
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4:25Now PlayingNeil DeGrasse Tyson is sick of the antiscience sentiment in America. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson took aim in a tweet at climate change deniers for believing predictions about Hurricane Harvey while rejecting the scientific consensus about global warming.
“Hmm. Don’t see much denial of @NOAA climate scientists who have predicted Hurricane Harvey’s devastating path into Texas,” he wrote on Twitter Friday.
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“What I should have said was NOAA ‘scientists,’ rather than ‘NOAA climate scientists,’” he told TMZ Tuesday. “The point is that we have people in denial of emergent scientific consensus. That was the real point of the tweet.”
The astrophysicist went on to say it was not necessarily that the hurricane was caused by climate change – but that people accepted scientific predictions about the storm. If the public accepts predictions about a hurricane, Tyson explained, why does it not fully accept a consensus about climate change?”*
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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.(American Heritage Dictionary)
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