ICYMI, Bill Nye on CNN: “It’s Too Hot Not to Vote”

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, Bill Nye joined CNN to discuss extreme weather, the climate stakes of this election, and Climate Power’s “Too Hot Not to Vote” campaign to register and mobilize voters to vote for climate candidates. This summer was the hottest on record, and it is too hot not to vote for climate and clean energy progress. 

Kamala Harris is the climate and clean energy candidate in this election. Harris has a proven climate record of casting the tie-breaking vote to triple clean energy production, creating more than 330,000 good-paying clean energy jobs, fighting for the freedom to clean air and water, and taking on corporate polluters. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would gut clean energy investments and jobs, increase costs on working families, and pollute our air, water, and planet to benefit his Big Oil donors. 

Bill Nye on CNN:

There’s no question the world’s getting warmer, and there’s no question that humans are to blame or causing it. I mean, as the saying goes, suppose these events were happening, these extreme weather events, extreme rain events, and we didn’t know why they were happening. It was just a mystery. That would be really troubling. But it’s us.

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But there is no question that one party is ignoring climate change and not having any sort of plan at all to deal with it, and is furthermore beholden to the fossil fuel industry, accepting essentially bribes from the fossil fuel industry to keep this status quo going. And I understand that it’s hard for a person to change his point of view when his living depends on it. I’m paraphrasing Upton Sinclair there.

But the Democratic Party has been addressing climate change to the extent possible in this contentious time and is developing plans to carry it forward, to use renewable energy to curtail a burning of fossil fuels.

And one more thing, I just want to remind everybody the U.S. is the most influential culture in the world. Not only is the U.S. the third most populous country, a third of a billion people, but our culture is everywhere. So the U.S. has to lead the world in addressing climate change. And so I encourage everybody to vote, vote with the environment, with climate change in mind.