During a wild segment of MSNBC Live on Wednesday morning, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson railed against climate change skeptics. He questioned their education, intelligence, and claimed they were participating in “the unraveling of an informed democracy.” And it was all said to the glee of MSNBC co-hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle.
“These are shots across our bow,” Tyson claimed about the recent hurricanes. “And to have people still saying I choose not to follow what the consensus of observations and experiments give us,” he huffed in complete disbelief.
He then chastised the skeptics, claiming they were irresponsible and willfully putting people’s lives at risk. “Well, so, first, anyone who wants to base policy on what might be research papers that are not in the consensus of what other observations have shown, that is risky. That is — no, it’s irresponsible,” he angrily proclaimed. – READ MORE
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