It's Friday, April 22nd, 2016. It's Earth Day, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indravis Gontas. And I'm Kishore Hari. Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

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Happy Earth Day, Indra.

Thank you very much.

I'm glad we are still on this Earth, and it doesn't, you know, hasn't changed that much.

You know, I feel like the Earth gets short shrift.

Only one day, come on.

We can do better than that. So that's why we're making it Earth Month at Inquiring Minds by kicking off a series of interviews around climate change,

exploring everything from sea level rise to the impact to marine life to the impact on human health.

And given the current lack of discussion of climate change in the U.S. presidential election right now on both sides of the aisle,

it seemed fitting to start with a climate communicator.

So we dialed up our climate communicator in chief, Bill Nye.

Bill Nye's on the show this week.

Oh, that's awesome.

I love Bill and what he has done for science education, defending evolution,

even planetary science. But Bill has really

taken out sort of a bold bet on climate change lately in the sense that he is straight up

confronting climate change deniers right where they live. Currently right now, he just released a

video where he bet a meteorologist who confronted Bill

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