We are all waiting until we swing around to the dayside to get more images. This morning, we are getting more images more questions. Questions, what are you hiding . This does not seem to get people to emotionally respond. I want the month of my life act that that 2012 apocalypse was because i was getting calls from people who were frightened. Afraid the world was coming to an end. Bet theple would say, i world is not coming to an end but where can i go to see this astronomical can conjunction happened. There was nothing astronomically interesting happening on that date. That was made up. It is one of the reasons i stopped working with the history channel. , was one of the regular host but they would present a show i was doing about asteroids or possible life on mars from a scientific respect of and then they would have ancient aliens on right after it. Seriously. Right after it. And they would be presenting these things as equivalent. This was enough to make me stop working with the h
To the Market Reaction. The market seemed to rally on this news. Why do you think that was . Well, remember that this particular move was targeted way in advance, and the market had adjusted to it. The only question that was out there was what was going to happen subsequently that, not that you could actually make certain happen but with what the policy was. As it became apparent the fed was going to just raise the rates and then not do a whole series of rates, then basically the markets said uncertainty is gone. Therefore income earning assets go straight up. This is just a classic case. I ran into it many times in the sense that choices that we had were always, do you want the market to know exactly what the plans of the Federal Reserve are or not . It depended on a very, very technically difficult problem. How much risk do you want in the system . If there is too little risk, youre bubble creating. If theres too much risk, youre suppressing growth beyond what it should be. Part of F
And i will give you the best information nasa has about what is going on with climate and it is not my place to argue about the politics of it. So you know the attack on what a scientist is you know, are we not allowed to be human . Am i not allowed to go on television and say im scared. Its not that im going to tell you what to do but i can tell you my emotional response. It has become very apparent to nasa scientist that delivering more and more data about with god the oceans. I can say the isotopic ratio of the Carbon Dioxide released human activity is doing this and its not the sun because weve been studying the sun very closely for 30 years. So all of these data are not helping in the debate. So instead, we try to drop back into storytellers as people and human beings trying to tell the story. I will wrap up with one quick anecdote. If you ever wonder how much of an entertainment value people get out of this very debate come i appeared on fox and friends this year and steve ducey
Buyology. And im the director for down syndrome at the medical school. Let me briefry introduce the subject. I want to you to imagine a world where they were accepted. Where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these fact just because they stood to gain financetially buzz raising facts because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. Huge numbers of americans simply dont believe facts people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. This isnt a scientific issue. Its a political one. Todays panelists will address the thorny question of how to get people to believe facts even when they dont want to. So let me introduce the panelists in the order in which theyre going to speak. First is michelle fowler. Shes an astronomer and a science communicator. Shes been a regular host of the history channels the universe. National geographic the known universe and the Discovery
Universe. National geographic the known universe and the Discovery Channels how the universe works. You can say shes narrowly focused on the universe. [laughter] richard ally is evan pew professor of geo sciences at penn state university. Hes one of the major figures worldwide in the area of Climate Change and is dedicated to educating the public about what is happening and what will happen. He taught me that for what man has done to the atmosphere not to have caused Global Warming the laws of physics will have to be wrong. Third is chip brulee longterm activists in the cause of human rights. Hes a democratic socialist and asbsolutist and he has a new book too close for comfort forget the tea party movement. Hes sorry. [laughter] leonard pip is a columnist for the miami herald. He has won the pultser prize on raise in america. So first, michelle. Michelle well, good morning. You know, its one of the gaps in my training as a scientist that im finding myself in this sort of social situat