world is getting warmer. no question that patterns are changing. are we going to have the political will or the drive to do something about all the carbon dioxide and methane we are putting in the atmosphere and changing from a fossil fuel economy to renewable energy. what are will be the signs between now and 2050 where people say stop denying? this is scary. two things are happening. first of all, young people are very concerned about climate change. people of my generation and perhaps yours are where you will find climate change. once in a while you meet a young person. the other side is very much aware of this. i heard harris faulkner and even sean hannity acknowledge that there is a political reason to embrace climate change and have a position those people, people
that is the bait and switch, the scientific consensus does not relate to climate catastrophe. there s been no statistically significant increase in the number of storms, the rate of sealevel rise, the number of droughts, all these end of the world predictions are not the scientific consensus. i agree with the scientific consensus and so do my physicists in our coalition that there is a slight warming because of carbon dioxide but climate catastrophe justifying the end of our fossil fuel economy is simply not a scientific fact. if you were face-to-face with alexandria ocasio cortez what would you say to her? i would say, i ve asked her to be with me so she can hear the same thing i said to my statistic students at american university for 15 years. what do you believe about the effect of the slight warming on climate variables like storms, droughts, hailstones and other
biggest, existential threat not only to our nation but to the world. in order for us to combat that threat, we must be as ambitious and innovative in our solution as possible. we are talking about jobs and justice. we are talking about the greatest blue collar job creation program in a generation. we are talking about repairing the historic oppression of frontline and vulnerable communities which are born the worst burdens of our fossil fuel economy. bill weir is with me now and good to see you. how are you? you did this huge deep dive into the green new deal. yeah. tell me about it. you got to think about it in terms of the og new deal, the original fdr. back when ohio looked like venezuela does today, when it was 80% unemployment and society was literally coming apart. part of his idea was not just let s kick start the economy and
this is the time and the president and epa who makes decisions need to talk about climate change. if this is not climate change, i don t know what it is. hurricanes happen one way or another, a lot of experts say the intensity of the storms. totally it follows the projection of what experts say. you have to fear with rising temperatures in the water and the air and sea level. there is a number of reasons why republicans have trouble dealing climate change. money, they re the recipients of 90% plus of the dollars from the cole industry. the biggest reason is geographic. the republican party from every level is highly dependant on the states that are the most found to the existence fossil fuel economy. 13 of the 16 produced the most natural gas, 21 of the 25 produced the most oil. you look at the broadest measure
withdrawal is an all but done deal. progressives had been holding out hope that some could steer trump in their direction. the new york times reporting this weekend that even kushner reporting instead of keeping the united states in the paris climate accord has come to believe that it needs to be changed. with me, bill nye, the science guy. t set the scene. what happens next? well, two things. first of all, it is bad globally. we want the united states to be the world leader in technology that s will everybody able us to go from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy. and people in the community, they will tell that you there is enough renewable energy available to run the whole place right now, if we just changed