Listen Up: Bill Nye the Science Guy Schools Big Media On Climate Change

Here's yet another scientist saying that reporting climate change as a he said/she said, two-sided controversy is wrong-headed and akin to giving flat-earthers "an equal say" every time we talk about astronomy. Only this time it's Bill Nye, THE Science Guy:

Science educator Bill Nye on Monday told CNN that they weren’t doing the public any favors by giving climate change deniers equal airtime because “the two sides aren’t equal.”

“There are a couple of things that you can’t really dispute,” Nye explained to CNN’s Carol Costello. “Sixteen of the last 17 years have been the hottest years on record. That’s just how it is.”

“I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the stories — there’s a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren’t equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are very concerned and you have a few people who are in business of equating or drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt. When you have a plus or minus percentage, that’s not the same thing as not believing the whole thing at all.