Testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday, Bill Nye told lawmakers that he was 'scared too' about climate change, and that the U.S. needed to 'invest in a big way' to solve the problem.
Nye, whose public television program “Bill Nye the Science Guy” has helped educate children in the U.S. on a wide range of scientific topics, testified on his own behalf. Asked by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, how the nation could address climate change when so many people did not believe it was real, Nye recounted his own dealings with skeptics.
He added: “They wouldn’t take the bets because they’re scared. We’re all frightened. This thing is overwhelming and if you don’t believe me, there have been these studies lately that, worldwide, people are having fewer and fewer children. That’s because women and men are a little reticent to bring a kid into a world where the world’s on fire. So, everybody, we’re in this together. We’ve got to fight this fight together. I’m scared too. Let’s get to work.
than all other industrialized nations combined — Nye pointed out that no nation could go it alone when it comes to global warming. Echoing climate envoy John Kerry, who in May said that in order to meet targets for cutting emissions,
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