--- description: "Like Tom Brady, the world's getting hotter and hotter" title: DeflateGate: Bill Nye's Football Video Is Really About Climate Change image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackle DeflateGate Again  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 28, 2015 1:53 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 28, 2015 1:53 PM CUT When New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick claimed the team’s under-inflated footballs were the result of “atmospheric conditions,” Bill Nye the Science Guy was quick to debunk Belichick’s not-so-scientific method. “What he said didn’t make any sense,” [Nye told ABC News this weekend](http://time.com/3681707/bill-nye-science-guy-deflategate/ "undefined"). But that wasn’t enough for Nye, who teamed up with Funny Or Die to further call out the coach’s claims with an experiment showing exactly what cold weather does to footballs. But while Nye is waiting for the footballs to cool down to prove his point, he takes captive viewers on a surprising tangent about climate change. “While we’re all obsessed with DeflateGate,” Nye says, let’s keep in mind that there’s something about which you should give a f-ck.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackle DeflateGate Again","datePublished":"2015-01-28T13:53:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:18.809Z","description":"But the wacky TV personality ends up getting a little sidetracked","url":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","video","deflategate"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/","name":"Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy Tackle DeflateGate Again"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Is What Physics Says About Deflategate","description":"Ainissa Ramirez, physicist and author of Newton's Football, talks through why weather can't explain deflate-gate","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TECrbcbF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-22T23:26:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TECrbcbF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/","duration":"PT1M57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3685648/bill-nye-deflategate-climate-change/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```