Bill Nye says trust in science is key to beating COVID-19 and climate change
Formerly the host of popular kids science show; now host of the podcast "Science Rules!" (Bill Nye/)Jeremy Deaton writes for Nexus Media, a nonprofit climate change news service. You can follow him @deaton_jeremy.This story was published in partnership with Nexus Media.The US is facing two massive threats—climate change and the coronavirus—that we cannot solve without science. One is playing out slowly, over decades, growing inexorably worse as we continue to burn fossil fuels. The other is advancing rapidly, exacting a grim toll in human lives, as we fail to contain the spread of the virus.In many ways, these dual crises amount to a national test of our science literacy—our basic understanding of what scientists know and how they gather that knowledge. And Bill Nye “The Science Guy” isn’t feeling good about our performance.“We are failing the test,” he says in a new interview. “It’s a very serious problem.”The federal government...