Bill Nye: Millennials Can Pressurise Republicans To Tackle Climate Change

Millennials can pressurise the Republican party to acknowledge the threats regarding climate change, which is an issue that many party candidates have not done, according to famous science educator Bill Nye.

Nye is firm that "climate deniers" are again disagreeing that refusal to acknowledge that humans are responsible for the damage of the earth's atmosphere. They are rebranding themselves as "doubters" so that they appear to be having issues with the scientific data, and are not in "outright refusal of the process."

"These guys are in denial, they're adamant," he said. "They don't see the connection between carbon dioxide, methane, the world getting warmer - they ignore all the data."

"It should be a global issue that we should all be concerned about, I mean, nominally, scientifically," Nye added. "I like to say that climate change was discovered, it wasn't made up. People looked at the data and they noticed - if you go to Glacier National Park, it's sort of muddy hillside national park."

Millennials are a very important element in making the issue of addressing climate change as a serious issue, forcing doubters to acknowledge the existing information.

"We need big ideas, we need big wind turbines, we need big solar panels," he said. "We could do this, and the example I always give everybody is World War II - people solved an enormous problem in five years. They didn't run in circles screaming."

Although conservatives have always refuted scientific evidence related to climate change, millennials in 2016 need to wield their power to push the Republican nominee to take the issue seriously.

"Don't be surprised if, after the conservatives, the Republicans pick somebody, this person goes, 'Well, I've been thinking about it, and climate change is a big issue,'" he concluded. "Because I don't think they can quite get enough 'they.' I don't think the party can quite get enough votes without millennials. Climate denial is almost entirely generational - only now and then do you meet a young person [who denies climate change]."

Surveys seem to be in support of Nye's claim, with the Harvard Institute of Politics last April claiming that 75 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds believing in the authenticity of global warming.

"It is clear from our research not only that millennials accept the science of climate change, but also that a candidate who does not is at a disadvantage," said  NextGenClimate, an environmental advocacy group.