Okay, I loved Bill Nye as a kid. He is a bitter man today, but I wanted to give this a chance. Unfortunately, the first episode shows again that he's just an engineer, not a scientist.
The insanity starts early, and the first episode was full of pseudoscientific nonsense. He clearly has no understanding of how hurricane warnings are issued, what they are even called, and evacuation procedures. In addition, hurricanes do not hit California due to steering currents and bitterly cold waters. The president has no ability to pressure the NHC to delay issuing warnings. Since satellite and other data is public, there is no way to "hide" the truth. Also, evacuations are a state and local government directive.
The idea is cool. Go through potential world-ending scenarios and how to survive them. The problem? This isn't a world-ending scenario. Flooding would cause famine, but not wipe out humanity. The first episode doesn't even live up to the claim.
It's also not realistic. Some of the upcoming episodes feature things that could happen. This one is extremely far-fetched and the idea that there would be five simultaneous category 5 strikes in major cities is absurd, especially when some just don't get them due to the way weather works in the real world.
Keep in mind not many hurricanes reach category 5 status. From 2009 to 2016 the U. S. had a landfall drought of hurricanes at all. From 1992 to 2018, no 5 storms hit the U. S.
As for the second half of the show going into things we can do, the episode gives some fascinating ideas but fails to explain the huge cost of these strategies to scale to the level required. Really simplistic and unrealistic. Plus, it won't do squat when developing nations pollute like we used to do.
I wanted to like this, but it was just ridiculous.
The insanity starts early, and the first episode was full of pseudoscientific nonsense. He clearly has no understanding of how hurricane warnings are issued, what they are even called, and evacuation procedures. In addition, hurricanes do not hit California due to steering currents and bitterly cold waters. The president has no ability to pressure the NHC to delay issuing warnings. Since satellite and other data is public, there is no way to "hide" the truth. Also, evacuations are a state and local government directive.
The idea is cool. Go through potential world-ending scenarios and how to survive them. The problem? This isn't a world-ending scenario. Flooding would cause famine, but not wipe out humanity. The first episode doesn't even live up to the claim.
It's also not realistic. Some of the upcoming episodes feature things that could happen. This one is extremely far-fetched and the idea that there would be five simultaneous category 5 strikes in major cities is absurd, especially when some just don't get them due to the way weather works in the real world.
Keep in mind not many hurricanes reach category 5 status. From 2009 to 2016 the U. S. had a landfall drought of hurricanes at all. From 1992 to 2018, no 5 storms hit the U. S.
As for the second half of the show going into things we can do, the episode gives some fascinating ideas but fails to explain the huge cost of these strategies to scale to the level required. Really simplistic and unrealistic. Plus, it won't do squat when developing nations pollute like we used to do.
I wanted to like this, but it was just ridiculous.