Asked Why People Doubt Global Warming, Bill Nye Mentions His Grandfather Fighting WWI on Horseback

EXCERPT:

NYE: "Well it’s closing your eyes to a situation you don't wish to acknowledge. Also, you guys for you conspiracy buffs, there’s been an extraordinary effort by the fossil fuel industry to suppress the facts of climate change. But our claim on the on the engendering side is that there is enough energy in sunlight, wind, and a little bit of geothermal, a little bit of tidal energy to run the whole place right now renewably if we just decided to do it. And what I tell everybody, my grandfather went into World War I on a horse. He rode a horse. I guess he was not the world’s greatest horseman, but he did it. He lived through it, rode around at night around trenches in the dark. But nobody rides a horse for -- for a living. Liza, by the way is quite a horsewoman, women I went to high school with who is your sketcher, artist. People don't get around the Ney York City on horses. Everything changed in two decades. So let's change everything. We can do this people. Let's go."