On Friday afternoon, CNN and MSNBC both used Hurricane Helene to promote the alarmist views of Michael Mann, and, on MSNBC, he was joined by fellow global warming activist Bill Nye, who begged the audience to vote for Democrats.
As Mann appeared on CNN with host Brianna Keilar, similarly hinted at voting for Kamala Harris when he was asked by the CNN host what could be done to reverse to global warming trend. After declaring that "when we stop polluting the atmosphere with carbon pollution, the planet will stop warming up." and called to "decarbonize" the economy, he added: "We've got to transition as rapidly as possible away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy."
Then came the liberal activist's political prescription of voting Democrat which he hinted at:
And we've got an upcoming election here where we've got a stark choice before us. We have a candidate on the one side who denies that climate change is real -- calls it a hoax. We've got a candidate on the other side who recognizes that this is one of the great threats we face and will try to build on the progress that we've already made in trying to do something about the problem.
A couple of hours later, Mann appeared with Nye on the MSNBC show Katy Tur Reports. Nye "the Science Guy" was even more forthright in calling for the audience to vote Democrat: "One side is in support of doing something about these massive problems associated with climate change -- the other side is pretending it's not happening. And, you guys, we all want a villain and so on, but it really has been the fossil fuel industry that's worked really hard to suppress the science."
Tur pushed back a bit: "A lot of people, when they hear that, though, they think, "God, you guys are being -- you're being too crazy -- you're being too strict, too harsh. I like my way of life -- I like my car -- I like ordering things on Amazon -- I like all the plastic that I use in my life.... I mean, it is so ingrained in our life, and what they're looking for is for science to come up with a way to solve this problem."
Nye repeated his call for voting Democrat as he responded:
Well, so we claim on our side of it -- we claim that we have enough energy to take care of everything right now if we just could apply it, and so the longest journey begins with but a single step. We will phase out fossil fuel use, and they will -- we will phase in renewable energy, but just when it comes November 5th, everybody, you've got to vote for the Democrats. I'm doing my best here.
For many years, I've been head of an organization that we work very hard to be political but not partisan in space exploration. Be that as it may, right now, the choice is clear. So you can, everybody out there, you can hate me, you can hate him, you can hate everything, but when it comes to doing something about climate change, you got to vote for Harris-Walz. And that's what Too Hot Not to Vote is all about.
Transcripts follow:
CNN News Central
September 27, 2024
1:41 p.m. Eastern
BRIANNA KEILAR: So how do we turn this trend around?
MICHAEL MANN, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: Well, turning it around is going to be tough because the reason we're seeing these more intense, more extreme storms is because of how much we've warmed up the planet -- how much we've warmed up the oceans. And that warmth is sort of baked in for, you know, the near future. We're not going to cool the planet down in the absence of, you know, substantial new technology to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. We're not going to be able to do that for the foreseeable future, and so we're sort of stuck where we are. We can prevent it from getting worse.
And one of the things that climate science has taught us over the last dozen years or so is that we're now much more confident that when we bring our emissions from fossil fuel burning down to zero -- when we stop polluting the atmosphere with carbon pollution, the planet will stop warming up. So there is a direct and immediate consequence of our efforts to decarbonize our economy. And so that's what we've got to do. We've got to transition as rapidly as possible away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy.
And we've got an upcoming election here where we've got a stark choice before us. We have a candidate on the one side who denies that climate change is real -- calls it a hoax. We've got a candidate on the other side who recognizes that this is one of the great threats we face and will try to build on the progress that we've already made in trying to do something about the problem.
KEILAR: All right, Michael Mann, we appreciate you. This is just incredible what we're looking at here, and you really put it into perspective. Thank you.
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MSNBC Katy Tur Reports
September 27, 2024
3:52 p.m. Eastern
BILL NYE, EDUCATOR: Everybody -- people say to me, "Bill Nye, Science Guy, what can I do about climate change? What can I do about climate change?" Well, tell you what, peoples, vote. Right now, we hear so much about the undecided voters, and this is -- I'm being as (pause)
TUR: Diplomatic? Generous?
NYE: Magnanimous. How can you not tell the difference, people? One side is in support of doing something about these massive problems associated with climate change -- the other side is pretending it's not happening. And, you guys, we all want a villain and so on, but it really has been the fossil fuel industry that's worked really hard to suppress the science.
TUR: How do you -- a lot of people, when they hear that, though, they think, "God, you guys are being -- you're being too crazy -- you're being too strict, too harsh. I like my way of life -- I like my car -- I like ordering things on Amazon -- I like all the plastic that I use in my life."
NYE: I'm crazy for plastic.
TUR: Yeah, but that's the thing. I mean, it is so ingrained in our life, and what they're looking for is for science to come up with a way to solve this problem.
NYE: Well, so we claim on our side of it -- we claim that we have enough energy to take care of everything right now if we just could apply it, and so the longest journey begins with but a single step. We will phase out fossil fuel use, and they will -- we will phase in renewable energy, but just when it comes November 5th, everybody, you've got to vote for the Democrats. I'm doing my best here. For many years, I've been head of an organization that we work very hard to be political but not partisan in space exploration. Be that as it may, right now, the choice is clear. So you can, everybody out there, you can hate me, you can hate him, you can hate everything, but when it comes to doing something about climate change, you got to vote for Harris-Walz. And that's what Too Hot Not to Vote is all about.
