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Blackburn maintained that there is no consensus in the scientific community about global warming, pointing to two vocal dissenters, Richard Lindzen of MIT and Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, who claim that humans are not causing climate change. “Neither \[Bill Nye\] nor I are a climate scientist. He is an engineer and actor, I am a member of Congress. And what we have to do is look at the information that we get from climate scientists,” said Blackburn. “There is not agreement around the fact of exactly what is causing this.” Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities, according to NASA. Experts say there is still some uncertainty in absolutely linking isolated extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy or bad droughts to global warming, but the vast majority of scientists ascribe climate change and the increase in extreme weather to human activity. Nye responded harshly to the Congresswoman. “We have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing,” said Nye. “There is no debate in the scientific community. I encourage the Congresswoman to really look at the facts. You are our leader. We need you to change things, not deny what’s happening.” Blackburn argued that responding to climate change will involve balancing the costs of not preventing climate change with the benefits of continuing at high rates of carbon emissions. “One of the things that we have to remember is cost-benefit analysis has to take place,” said the Congresswoman. “And it is unfortunate that some of the federal agencies are not conducting that cost-benefit analysis.” Nye said the U.S. could stand to gain economically by investing in new technologies, but warned against the cost of denial. “For me, as a guy who grew up in the U.S., I want the U.S. to lead the world in this,” he said. “These are huge opportunities, and the more we mess around with this denial, the less we’re going to get done.” Watch the full debate here: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7975/bill-nye-global-warming-marsha-blackburn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7975/bill-nye-global-warming-marsha-blackburn/"},"headline":"Bill Nye Scolds GOP Congresswoman on Global Warming","datePublished":"2014-02-16T18:20:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:25:23.812Z","description":"\"We need you to change things, not deny what's happening,\" he told Representative Marsha Blackburn on Meet the Press","url":"https://time.com/7975/bill-nye-global-warming-marsha-blackburn/","keywords":["Environment","climate change","global warming","NBC"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e27eac2c1507905/6986829f13c79fd926190b80/billnye2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e27eac2c1507905/6986829f13c79fd926190b80/billnye2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"National Read For The Record Day - Press Conference","caption":"National Read For The Record Day - Press Conference","creditText":"FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/environment/","name":"Environment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7975/bill-nye-global-warming-marsha-blackburn/","name":"Bill Nye Scolds GOP Congresswoman on Global Warming"}}]}] ```