Bill Nye The Science Guy Tells Daily Caller Climate Change Is ‘Bigger Problem’ Than Economy

On Tuesday, The Daily Caller‘s Michelle Fields caught up with ’90s kid icon and scientist Bill Nye The Science Guy who was in Washington, D.C. speaking on behalf of the Planetary Society. Fields asked Nye about his thoughts about the Obama Administration. “He has a lot of constraints until he gets re-elected. He can’t do what, certainly, my parents would have thought were routine things — social programs. This notion that government is inherently bad is new.” Nye observed. “Whoever’s in charge can’t do anything about it ’til after the election. … He’ll have a freer hand is what I believe.”

“I don’t want to shock anybody but I’m strongly very concerned about climate change,” Nye added. “You can talk about the economy and short-term jobs and so on — but there are much bigger problems.”

Nye also told Fields he felt presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would move further to the middle as the election season wore on.

“After the primary’s over, everybody can move back to the middle so maybe we haven’t really found out what Mitt Romney’s real views are yet,” Nye opined. “He had to go so far to the right to win the primary that — who knows. Just think about when the guy was governor of Massachusetts — he apparently has espoused very different views. So we’ll just wait and see.”

Watch Nye’s interview with Fields below:

(h/t Daily Caller)

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