MS Now treating the apocalyptic ramblings of Bill Nye — the so-called “Science Guy” — like serious scholarship is a criminal offense against its viewers’ intelligence.
MS Now Reports’ fill-in anchor Antonia Hylton brought on Nye July 2 to put the “climate change” whammy on the summer heat currently gripping the East Coast. In addition, she also teed him up to smack conservatives tearing into communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani playing nanny by instructing his denizens to keep thermostats at 78 degrees or people will die.
“The Department of Energy has the same guidance. Is the science on Mamdani’s side here,” Hylton led with the leading question. “Of course,” screeched the make-believe climatologist with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, “Everybody, if you don't run the air conditioning systems as strongly as powerfully, you will use less electricity. That's everybody. That's not rocket surgery. That's intuitive.”
Rocket surgery? It’s “rocket science,” genius! Nye proceeded to regurgitate his typical spiel about how the “planet’s on f–ing fire” for the umpteenth time:
What I think’s happening with these heat events is we're going to get used to them in the same way we used to be used to snow days where people just stay home, just don't go — and some people venture out in the snow, but people become less productive, less business gets done, and so on. I think the same thing is going to happen with these heat events. But it is — it is very, very serious because of public health and so on. And there's a problem we have now where we're using a tremendous amount of electricity to not only air condition our living spaces, but also to run these data centers. This is a serious biz.
.@MSNOWNews actually treating @BillNye like he's a serious scientific authority on anything is a criminal offense against viewers' intelligence quotients. pic.twitter.com/Rcw8PNXl2d
— Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) July 2, 2026
Did he forget that the North East and Mid-Atlantic just had their coldest winter in about 20 years last season? But it got worse. Nye — who went viral for saying during a podcast that climate change meant the U.S. was experiencing a “Pearl Harbor” moment every week in 2019 — proceeded to try bolstering his word salad by comparing two straws of different sizes and arguing “more liquid” can go through “this big straw, than this little straw. I think intuitively we could all accept that.” No kidding, Captain Obvious! “Well, the same is true of power. The same is true of power lines.”
It’s almost as if mechanical engineers are too dumb to realize that more power naturally necessitates building more efficient power lines through capacity scaling! Using Nye’s logic, adaptability all of a sudden became stagnant as humanity just hopelessly waits for its power grids to blow up.
“Science Guy’s here,” boasted Nye. Great. Now when does he leave? As Climate Depot founder Marc Morano stated in comments to MRC Business, "Wow. It's been a while. I haven't seen Bill Nye paraded around by the media as a 'climate expert' in many years, but he's back! Nye is really into recycling his old talking points." Morano noted that "EPA data has consistently shown the 1930s heatwaves in the U.S. were much more severe than any heatwaves since and NOAA data reveals that 76% of U.S. states recorded their high-temperature records before 1955."
At the end of his segment, Nye suggested that the solution to the eco-Ragnarok was climate-conscious voting in the upcoming midterm elections. Morano mocked Nye's not-so-subtle political agenda: "Vote yourself better weather and fewer heatwaves! The power of the ballot box will alter the Earth's climate, according to Bill Nye. Yawn."
It's also worth revisiting the flub Hylton made at the beginning of her segment by using a rhetorical sleight-of-hand by hitting conservative critics of Mamdani’s thermostat prescription with the Department of Energy. The DOE recommendations for 75-78 degrees in thermostat settings were about saving on energy costs for consumers, as USA Today pointed out June 30 — not because Americans turning their ACs on to full-blast meant the grid was at risk of overloading!
