Palin claims she is equal to Bill Nye, the "Science Guy"

Sarah Palin - climate change denier and
yet highly influential among Americans.

Of all the causes Sarah Palin has embraced in her varied career as hockey mom, Alaska governor, Republican vice-presidential nominee, Fox television commentator and Donald Trump supporter, none perhaps may be as bold or – as she still likes to say, “rogue” – as trying to take down a much-beloved children’s television personality: Bill Nye the Science Guy.

But that was where hardcore climate change denial landed Palin on Thursday: a wood-panelled committee room in Congress where she disputed the credentials of a hugely popular science educator who has designed devices for NASA and been awarded several honorary degrees.

“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin told the gathering. “He’s a kids’ show actor. He’s not a scientist.”

And that was not even the low point of the event.

Read The Guardian story - “Climate change denier Sarah Palin: 'Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am'.”

(Sarah Palin’s sincerity combined with her idiocy makes my shoulders droop – climate change is an issue that needs to lift us above the simplistic, populist, emotive responses such as those exhibited by Palin – Robert McLean.)