Name: Theo Von and Neil deGrasse Tyson Discuss Climate Change
Uploaded: 2022-12-01T14:00:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and Neil deGrasse Tyson Discuss Climate Change' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and Neil deGrasse Tyson Discuss Climate Change' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-01. Transcript available.

know what science is? It's a professional way of querying nature so that you
can not fool yourself
into thinking something is true that is not or that something is not true that
is. If you say
something is true, let me test it. Let me find out. Let me devise an experiment.
And if I can
verify your statement with this experiment and someone else can in a third
person, we're good
here. That's an objective truth. And what objective truths have going for them
is that they're true
whether or not you believe in them. I don't like them.
Well, because the actual nature can't be fooled. Nature is the ultimate judge,
jury, and executioner.
Yeah. If you're going to create laws in a pluralistic world, you base the laws
on the
objective truths. Right. Because that applies to everyone. Don't base a law on
your personal truth
because that's forcing it on me and I have a different personal truth. Is
climate change an
objective truth? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So what happens is- You believe in climate
change.
It's not a belief. It's not about a belief. Right. When it's objectively true,
you don't
have to believe it. It just is true. Yeah. I believe in it when it's really hot,
I believe
in it. If it's like a hot day, I'm like, damn, they're right. They write about
this shit.
I'll tell you that, bro. I'm serious, dude. I'm like, we got to fight this. You
know what I'm saying?
So here's the thing. So if it was only determined that way, then another person
that was in a cold
snap would say, no, I don't believe it. Right. And everybody's making up their
own theories about
it because it's their own life experience. But an experiment takes the
information out of yourself.
Okay. And it's not your perspective. It's not your bias. It's not your
worldview. And you get all the
data available. And then you establish the objective truth. In the last 20
years, there are basically no
scientists left denying it. So it's basically a hundred percent. Damn, right.
Ain't one holdout
out there. No, no. But let's go back to when it was three percent because that's
a fun number.
Okay. All right. Let's do an experiment. There's a bridge that's there. You don't
know where it came
from, but it's a bridge, but it's brand new and it's about to open. And you say,
I want to drive my
truck across the bridge. 97 engineers come up to you and say, if you drive your
truck, that's going to
collapse and you're going to die. You will likely die plunging into the ravine.
So 97 of them say
that three say, Oh, Theo, go take your F-150 drive across. You're some good old
boys. Never mean it
no harm. Go on. You'll be fine. What are you going to do? Probably listen to
the 97 engineers,
especially if you're not an engineer yourself. Yeah. Especially if you got to
look the engineers
in the eyes. Now. No, eyes got nothing to do with this. That's you trying to be
human about this.
Don't be human. That mess you up. Let me feel what you're saying. No, they'll
show you the
research papers. There's no eyeballs in the research paper. There's no emoticons
in the research paper.
So then what is that? That makes me want to look them in the eyes and see what
is that?
If you look someone in the eye and they tell you something that just happened,
that is more true to you than a statistical table with charts and bar charts.
Right. Than a pie graph.
Than a pie graph that says the same fucking thing. The eyewitness testimony has
huge value to our
emotions because another human being is communicating it.
Right.
Do whatever it takes to not fool yourself into thinking something is true that
is not or that
something is not true that is. Does it mean getting a video of it? Does it mean
getting someone else to
check on you? Did you have your coffee this morning or not? Is that the measure?
Were you more alert?
Did you miss something? Right.
Do whatever it takes. And when you do that, it ain't got nothing to do with the
passion in their eyes.
Oh. Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch
this one. You can watch
this one. Different options, different choices. Some guy just brings you a one
option, not this guy.
Two options. Watch one. This one or this one.