(Washington Post; science)
...“Grow up,” he said, injecting some more language that wouldn’t fly in public broadcasting. “You’re not children anymore. I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis; got it?”
Nye took to [John] Oliver’s show to teach his audience about global warming and its possible solutions — namely, the Green New Deal and carbon pricing (in his words, “when something costs more, people buy less of it. Safety glasses off. That’s it.”).
Nye appeared to endorse the trademark legislation proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), telling lawmakers they needed to do something and chiding those who have said the Green New Deal is prohibitively expensive. As he spoke into the camera, the globe continued to burn.
“There are a lot of things we could do to put it out,” he said. “Are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing’s free, you idiots.”
His harsh tone surprised some — one viewer wrote on Twitter that he “just heard Bill Nye swear and it’s blowing my mind.” Another observed, “Global warming is so bad that it now has Bill Nye the Science Guy cursing us out to fix it.”
Even [John] Oliver, as his show ended, gasped, “I think we’ve all broken Bill Nye.”....
