Status
Ended
Network
Netflix
SEASON
EPISODE

Comedy, Talk Show

DESCRIPTION

Bill Nye explores science and its impact on politics, society and pop culture. Each episode tackles a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry.

Season 1

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill and his guests talk about tackling overpopulation by empowering women. Comedian Joanna Hausmann interviews couples about male contraception.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill explores advances in IVF that are helping couples have healthy babies. "Project Runway" star Tim Gunn hosts a special fashion show in the lab.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Chemtrails. Crop circles. Palm readers. Bill takes aim at pseudoscience and explains how confirmation bias makes us believe things that aren't true.

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Confirmation bias is a sort of brain trap, which is why, in science,
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Ghosts, astrology, Bigfoots.
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I got this.
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You get somebody to read your tarot cards.
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Or crystals that will heal you.
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People, we want critical thinking skills.
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because we have our super skeptical science sleuth Karlie Kloss out there.
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a commercial pilot with over 11,000 hours of flight experience
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-What about, to control minds? -Nope. Doesn't exist.
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and some stay in the sky for hours?
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-at 30,000 feet-- -Yes.
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Yeah, I know.
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not every airplane that flies through the sky leaves a contrail.
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-Can you imagine--? -At least, as we know so far.
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So, I am six-foot-something and sitting in that plane, like, all curled up,
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But how do we stay skeptical without being too closed-minded?
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-From Brooklyn, New York. -That's right.
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And one of my absolute favorite is the vagina steam,
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and we have to do all these crazy things to rid our bodies of these toxins.
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Does she have astrological points of view?
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-You would be under the 13th sign. -Yes.
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in terms of astronomical phenomena.
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...with these astrological things in the background.
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it's just, to me, you know-- I kind of take-- I think it's fun.
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-[Bill] That's so weird. -Yeah. I know.
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How does Hamlet make your life better?
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Hamlet's good, but right now, I'm totally on a Hamilton kick.
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Timothy, it's a little bit of a waste of time.
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I'm gonna come onto your side, a little bit.
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People can relate to some things that are said through astrology,
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what's really happening in the cosmos,
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How do you deal with people who are believers?
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lack of discipline, lack of searching for true cause and effect, is inherently bad.
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and that's... ridiculous.
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Oh, yeah. People can hardly tell us apart.
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Here's how people walk on hot coals.
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Wait, wait. No, this is gonna be great. Here we are.
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-Whoo! -[audience laughing]
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Now hold it over the same flame and I will block it in the same fashion.
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is passing right through the paper...
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wood, even when it's on fire, doesn't conduct heat that well.
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Now, I'm not kidding. It looks like an effect that could not possibly work.
Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill and the panel discuss private space travel. Mean astronaut Joel McHale answers questions, and lunar gravity gives a young basketballer a boost.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Sex is complex! Bill explores the ever-evolving science of sexuality with help from a panel of experts and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" star Rachel Bloom.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

What's in a calorie? Bill flambés a marshmallow in the name of science, experts weigh in on fad diets, and singing kale keeps it real about nutrition.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill and his correspondents check out video game technology that's changing the world, including a game that helps surgeons sharpen their skills.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

With help from some friends in raincoats and a room full of unemployed germs, Bill demonstrates how vaccines work and why everyone needs to get them.

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[audience cheering]
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But the main reason I want you to get vaccinated
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I'm not kidding about this, people. It's serious.
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In backyards and on the world's biggest stages.
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Polio is an infectious disease that attacks nervous system.
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For vaccination, we have to reach children under five,
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Polio was at crisis levels in India.
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But Indians must now face the legacy of the disease they have conquered.
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What would you say to them?
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They all had to contribute to make this work.
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You got 170 million, in order of magnitude.
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Well, you know, the people I spoke to,
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It takes resources to eradicate a disease like this.
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So, here to discuss this is our panel of experts.
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Dr. Jennifer Reich. Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver.
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And so, what I hear from parents is that
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Yeah, I felt like I had the responsibility
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I knew I'd heard some things about, you know, "Vaccines are dangerous.
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It's many, many days of misery and unpleasantness.
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The one study that purported a connection
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between autism and any vaccine.
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That parents are coming in and really picking and choosing
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who they trust, how we're communicating science,
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I already decided I probably wasn't going to vaccinate.
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I kind of feel like if I had been lucky enough to find
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That's such a great point. And the research shows,
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So, when it comes to entrance into child care or to public school
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My oldest daughter was in preschool
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which was right around the same time that we all came down with rotavirus,
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or child care settings,
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those who can't be protected by everyone else around them
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And if they-- College-educated and have a higher family income.
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"We are really healthy." "We eat organic food."
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-Yeah. Great. -One of your guest speakers?
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They even took Poland from me.
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Well, well, well, living legends here. What's up, rock stars?
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-So busy. Insanely busy. -Yeah.
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Ebola, I am but a cold compared to you.
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Anyone interested in working with Jenny McCarthy?
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Just gotta put on this unusual lab coat.
Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill introduces the theory of panspermia, NASA scientists discuss the Mars 2020 mission, and Wil Wheaton and the panel ponder life on other planets.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill extracts DNA from a strawberry in the lab and talks about genetically modified foods with a Monsanto executive, a professor and a farmer.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

From robots that paint Rembrandts to Twitterbots gone rogue, Bill and his guests explore the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence.

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something that not only uses what you've done in the past,
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based on information it got from the past
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But it's another thing...
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Hey, hey, it's my ice cream.
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Now all I gotta do is decide.
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or what kind of medical treatment your kid should get?
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to investigate a very different kind of artificial intelligence.
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but you're asking a computer to create something original.
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But that is still just a digital item. It's zeros and ones.
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but the printer is his hands. So, it uses the colors,
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This is basically a person made up out of facial features glued together.
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Very cool that they're able to analyze these features
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if this artificial intelligence painting machine...
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What if the Internet is conscious now, and we don't know?
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to angry at... the Internet?
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and where we are and where we're going with artificial intelligence,
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law professor, Ryan Calo. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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maybe half of which have come true,
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just small sections of the "intelligentsia."
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Well, we've had Luddites, people who are afraid of machines,
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and as you alluded to, it's kind of nudging us this way and that,
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But take privacy as a good example, okay?
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that are credited to, uh, webcams being taken over by malware.
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It's organic. This is to say, in the case of the Internet,
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as to when do they think we are going to come to a point
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wouldn't necessarily have come up-- Have known in advance.
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In some cases, randomly, in some cases, more directed,
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And yet, we feel comfortable deploying it in our most sensitive social institutions.
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based on their risk factors.
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that no longer have the chance to deploy that judgment and we're losing...?
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we want to separate it from the--
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Let's not throw away the baby with the bathwater.
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Thank you, guys. Thank you. I'm reaching, I'm reaching, I'm reaching.
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You know? No, I am. It...
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See, the red light, that's very troubling.
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Uh, the quadricopter, not the bar.
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and Margaret Mitchell from Microsoft,
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I've been working on this research project
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And, so, it can recognize things, this app, using the camera on the phone?
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Here-- Seriously,
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Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill and his panel of experts debunk bogus alternative remedies like homeopathy, the healing power of magnets ... and curing cancer by yelling at it.

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I'm so glad you asked.
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In the case of medicine, the researchers wanna make sure
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I don't know which is the drug and which is the placebo...
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and see how they feel.
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So, let's see what these pills really were.
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when something makes you feel better even though it's not medicine.
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You could be doing yourself harm and no one would be the wiser.
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It's a big deal, so you guys pay attention.
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Does the treatment use dramatic stories?
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Every organ and every cell has a specific vibration
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-if you don't have them at peace? -You die.
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[yelling]
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And the sound he uses to get rid of the cancer is really intense.
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It's like, imagine. "We're gonna listen to music and the disease will go away."
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No. You get $2 off, I guess. They didn't round up.
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that were very, very excited that we were there,
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And sound therapy is a guy yelling at you.
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'cause when you hear music, you think about the music, the lyrics,
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But it's hard to tell if they work, or if it's just a placebo effect.
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the placebo effect fascinates me.
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Just the fact that we can't hear ultrasound doesn't take away from--
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-[Bill] Nocebo? -A nocebo.
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Is placebo any different than what we think of as alternative medicine?
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is a very, very small number.
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And I don't like alternative medicine,
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sometimes it's a little dangerous,
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-That's your business? -[Chris] That's my business.
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Well, we get to the scale of sort of magnetic bracelets.
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and tell them various stories
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That was the trial when I had a high dose of caffeine."
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I don't like using the umbrella term, because it has many effects.
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We've seen-- We've seen studies where psychics and mystics
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And there are people that are more perceptive than we are.
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-and if you are, like, in a-- -[Bill] I've been to Sedona.
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Sound therapy has nothing to do with Buddhism or Hinduism.
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When they see Asians doing Reiki to cure cancer,
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Asians, stop selling unregulated remedies with no scientific basis.
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and became real medicine.
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And then there is this alternative remedy
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You're in luck, really, because...
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Now, what we wanna do is put in some universal indicator--
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Now, I'll put in a lot more of this stuff till we get a nice green color.
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and we will use this hydrochloric acid,
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Just this one little drop there.
Aired 7 years ago - Apr 21, 2017

Bill calls out climate change deniers, breaks down the science of global warming and explains how we can make the planet a cooler place to live.

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are gonna have this much water on the floor all the time.
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Suck, man, my chocolate.
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-I know. -Thanks.
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You thought I was gonna get a new TV show and not talk about climate change?
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Our factories, cars, trains and planes, and electric power plants,
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it warms the soil, the seas, and the plants.
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my hand glows with infrared light.
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The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does the same thing.
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And the heat is held in the atmosphere.
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And the warming ocean is expanding,
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we sent Karlie Kloss to Venice, Italy,
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[Karlie] For over a thousand years,
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As our planet has gotten warmer, those tides have risen higher,
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And that cause the tilting up till the surface
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Once installed, this is full of water, and the air is entering into the red pipe--
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What's that in dollars?
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-It rises-- It comes in-- -Three meters is the top of the...
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So, they know when the tide is gonna be high?
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pieces of metal that actually slide in their door front and protect the water.
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in addressing a problem like climate change.
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The one thing the United States exports for better or for worse is its culture.
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They did not choose to be-- "You know what I wanna do when I'm in my mid-20s?
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So, please join me with my distinguished panel.
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So, Dr. Jacobson, we have met.
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You're saying we have the technology right now to run the whole place renewably?
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And in the real world, getting to 100 percent...
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-but we're closing down nuclear plants. -So, here's the problem for me,
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is that it's impossible to solve the global-warming problem with nuclear,
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2030? That's next week!
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And the other problem--
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Sun's out, I have solar panels in Studio City, California,
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and the wind's not full blowing?
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But also existing hydro-electric power is like a big battery,
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Bill throwing out ideas.
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and compared it to the demand, which also varies,
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"We wanna make a change. We wanna take action."
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As hard as I could, I'd listened to stories.
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Exactly. We don't think on the large scale that science teaches us to.
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Oui, oui.
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As CO2 in the air mixes with the world's ocean,
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are gonna present enormous challenges for humankind.