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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:12 PM Feb 2013

"CNN Anchor Deborah Feyeric Asks Bill Nye if Meteor Is Related to Global Warming"

CNN Anchor Deborah Feyeric Asks Bill Nye if Meteor Is Related to Global Warming

By Ashley Davis at Opposing Views

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/cnn-anchor-deborah-feyeric-asks-bill-nye-if-meteor-related-global-warming#

"SNIP...........................................

An anchor at CNN surprised everyone watching when she asked scientist Bill Nye if the meteor hurtling past Earth was a result of global warming.

Deborah Feyeric, who has worked at CNN for 13 years, asked the question when she was transitioning from a story about global warming and the blizzard in the east coast to a segment about Asteroid 2012 DA14. The asteroid is expected to pass just 17,200 miles from Earth on Friday.

“We want to bring in our science guy, Bill Nye, and talk about something else that’s falling from the sky, and that is an asteroid,” Feyerick said. “What’s coming our way? Is this the effect of, perhaps, global warming? Or is this just some meteoric occasion?”

Nye, who has an engineering degree from Cornell University, cut off Feyerick before she could say more.


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"CNN Anchor Deborah Feyeric Asks Bill Nye if Meteor Is Related to Global Warming" (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2013 OP
LOL! Sounds like a segue brain fart. Kind of him to not make an issue of it. applegrove Feb 2013 #1
LMFAO!!! hrmjustin Feb 2013 #2
OK, that's it. I'm going home and killing my brain. eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 #3
Wow.... GObamaGO Feb 2013 #4
Oh my... SidDithers Feb 2013 #5
The only imaginable explanation is that she was babbling to kill time Rowdyboy Feb 2013 #6
I don't know where Wolf graduated from Politicalboi Feb 2013 #16
I just assume at this point journalists are encouraged to be ignorant about science. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #37
*sigh* The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2013 #7
Seriously!!!!??? OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #8
I wish he would have said yes. Fiery rocks from the sky might get people motivated about GW. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #9
Sadly, probably more people would believe in it if we told those stories BlueStreak Feb 2013 #32
O.M.G. Whisp Feb 2013 #10
Oh Jesus. n/t littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #11
That is what happens when on-air personalities do not know how to do a report Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #12
Why of course it is Politicalboi Feb 2013 #13
Snort MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #15
It was a terrorist fist-bump from God IDemo Feb 2013 #14
No,no, he's going to blame it Bohunk68 Feb 2013 #17
OMG! I knew it!!! Not content with tsunamis and ruining marriage! Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #25
Not that I have heard Politicalboi Feb 2013 #18
lends credence to the idea that news "reporters" are nothing more than zbdent Feb 2013 #19
Sniffs Around...Wonders if It's Safe to Watch Chicken Noodle Nuze Again? KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #20
................... Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #21
FAIL JaneyVee Feb 2013 #22
Maybe a micro-meteorite pierced her brain. randome Feb 2013 #23
maybe there's a Unverse Warming we aren't aware of.... n/t Whisp Feb 2013 #24
I also remember speculation Jenoch Feb 2013 #26
That's a commonly held opinion here, never mind CNN, sadly. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #36
Anyone that ignorant should avoid asking question on the air. nt ladjf Feb 2013 #27
Oh I don't think she was actually thinking...she was segueing. An honest mistake. applegrove Feb 2013 #34
That is what you expect to hear on FOX. nt avebury Feb 2013 #28
"The anchor graduated from Columbia ... with a degree in English literature" BlueStreak Feb 2013 #29
The degree neither explains nor excuses that kind of ignorance. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #39
Damn Solly Mack Feb 2013 #30
but i bet she looked mahvalus spanone Feb 2013 #31
Everyone knows asteroids are GOD'S WRATH demwing Feb 2013 #33
The anchor belongs at Fox News. nt bluestate10 Feb 2013 #35
CNN is really going after Fox upi402 Feb 2013 #38
This is just one of the many reasons I no longer watch CNN. What happened to... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #40

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)
6. The only imaginable explanation is that she was babbling to kill time
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:17 PM
Feb 2013

How one could be a graduate of Barnard College and 20+ year reporter and remain this clueless is astounding.

 

OceanEcosystem

(275 posts)
8. Seriously!!!!???
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:19 PM
Feb 2013

As if what happens on planet Earth affects what happens many, many miles away outside in space!

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
32. Sadly, probably more people would believe in it if we told those stories
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 12:36 AM
Feb 2013

"Meteors are God's way of punishing us. God is hurling rocks at the earth. Right now He's just trying to scare us straight, to mend our evil gay-sex and aborting ways before he destroys our whole climate with giant meteors that will make the Russian one look like a firefly in the night. After all, you know God killed the dinosaurs, and how did He do that? He sent a mighty meteor, just like the one that barely missed the Earth this week. And then what happened? The meteor caused thousands of years of darkness -- global climate change 1000 times greater than we see today, and almost all life on Earth ceased to exist. God killed the gay dinosaurs and gun haters with global warming caused by a giant meteor. And now, with gay marriage, women in the military, a black man in the White House, and all the meteors raining down on us, God is sending us the clearest possible message. Coincidence? I think not."

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
14. It was a terrorist fist-bump from God
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:24 PM
Feb 2013

By the way, have Pat Robertson and the usual crew chimed in yet on Russia deserving this?

Bohunk68

(1,364 posts)
17. No,no, he's going to blame it
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:27 PM
Feb 2013

on the GLBT community. Doncha know we have soooooooo much power to control things.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
19. lends credence to the idea that news "reporters" are nothing more than
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:49 PM
Feb 2013

runners-up and "also-rans" of beauty pagents ... If they can adequately read a teleprompter, they can "report".

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
20. Sniffs Around...Wonders if It's Safe to Watch Chicken Noodle Nuze Again?
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 10:51 PM
Feb 2013

...the answer is NO!



I'm surprised they didn't claim the meteorite was "too close to call"

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
26. I also remember speculation
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 11:23 PM
Feb 2013

from reporters about how global warming could be responsible for the Haiti and Indonesian tsunamis.

applegrove

(118,683 posts)
34. Oh I don't think she was actually thinking...she was segueing. An honest mistake.
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 12:42 AM
Feb 2013

But it sounds very funny.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
33. Everyone knows asteroids are GOD'S WRATH
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 12:41 AM
Feb 2013

which we deserve for listening to demonic secular humanists spread their science lies about the so called Global warming. The only reason our global is getting warmer is because the gates of hell have opened. Duh.

Either that, or it was just teh gays.

upi402

(16,854 posts)
38. CNN is really going after Fox
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 02:57 AM
Feb 2013

Everyone screws up, but I am topped off from all the vacuous news whores drawing a payday as our democracy fades.

The 4th estate is failing its duty. Shame. No pity here from me.

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)
40. This is just one of the many reasons I no longer watch CNN. What happened to...
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:02 AM
Feb 2013

...the old days when TV news journalists were well-educated and well-informed? Alas....gone with the wind about 50 years ago.

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