'Scientists Aren’t Just ‘F*cking With You’: Jimmy Kimmel takes on Sarah Palin

Jimmy Kimmel takes on Sarah Palin, backed
 by science and climate scientists.

On Monday evening’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the ABC late-night host tackled something that isn’t in your average topical monologue: the scientific consensus on climate change. And he made a video featuring real climate scientists responding to climate denial in a fashion one doesn’t see in the National Academy of Sciences.

The catalyst involved a climate denier-produced movie, “Climate Hustle,” which has been called “amateurish” and “not very watchable.” Specifically what Kimmel seized on were comments former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave last month while promoting the movie.

Before going into how Donald Trump is “so reasonable and so full of common sense” to believe that the “climate change agenda is really just a political agenda to stymie development,” Palin last month said in an interview promoting the movie that it’s important to question the scientific consensus on climate change.

“It’s perpetuated and repeated so often that too many people believe that, ‘Oh, well, if 97 percent of all scientists believe that man’s activities are creating changes in the weather, who am I to question that?'” she said.

“Exactly. Who are you to question that?” Kimmel replied. He joked that his theory was that Palin wants global warming to happen because it’s cold in Alaska (though with regular headlines reporting record-high temperatures, it’s less so recently).

Read the ClimateProgress story - “Scientists Aren’t Just ‘F*cking With You’: Jimmy Kimmel Takes On Sarah Palin’s Climate Denial.”

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.)