Based on the narrative you've posted, and if Jay Wile is correct, it would appear as if results were rigged to make a point in the video - and that cannot be excused. It was probably shoddy program direction more than a sophisticated attempt to deceive, though: They should have taken the time to conduct an experiment that really does make their point. Of course, that's a problem in itself. Where there are multiple opinions on something, one side shows experiments that back their claim, while the other side shows different experiments to prove their point. Ironically, sometimes they are both right (light is both a particle and a wave, for example).
Another quote from Jay Wile: Now, of course, a properly-conceived experiment (such as the one used in my text) will give the desired result. If you actually allow infrared light into a closed container with elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the temperature will rise faster than it will in a closed container without elevated levels of carbon dioxide. Does this show that carbon dioxide causes global warming? Of course not. It only shows the overly-simplistic mindset of too many people who blindly follow the scientific consensus. The earth is nothing like a closed container! It has many negative feedback mechanisms that have been designed into it specifically to regulate global temperature. This is why the very best computer simulations of earth’s climate have been wildly unsuccessful in their predictions. They simply don’t take earth’s negative feedback mechanisms into account properly. The main point, however, is that in yet another video, Bill Nye has shown himself to be anti-science. After all, given the fact that scientific fraud is such a serious problem today, anyone who promotes himself as the spokesperson for science shouldn’t be involved in the production of a video that shows a brazenly-faked scientific experiment! And a comment about the article from a reader: There’s more. Bill Nye gives a thoroughly unsatisfactory reply to Watts in this blog entry. http://www.billnye.com/response-to-watts-up/ If he was a true scientist he would have said something like “I apologize. There is no excuse to ever fake the results of an experiment. The fact that I allowed my name to be associated with this is both embarrassing and unacceptable.” Then he could go into details about how it really should have worked. And a reply to that comment from another reader: Wow. Thanks for the link, Kyle. You are right. That is not the response you would expect from someone who is actually interested in science. He seems to be saying, “It doesn’t matter that the experiment was faked. We know global warming is happening.” He also either didn’t read or didn’t understand Watts’s writeup, as he still seems to think the mechanism he described is the correct one for the experiment.
It would appear, to me at least, that this is not a difference of opinion but out and out FAKED and Bill Nye is a fake, and how many real scientists in the publish-or-perish culture today are faking their results too????
