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“You don’t need people’s opinions on a fact”: how to debate a climate-change denier, according to John Oliver

John Oliver, once of The Daily Show, and America's “Science Guy” Bill Nye show the world how to debate with climate-change deniers. 

By Hillary Kelly

We know by now that Bill Nye has become the Climate Change Expert-in-Chief for our nation. But John Oliver has done him one better by pointing out on last night’s show that there’s no reason to ever debate a climate-change denier—because they’re just plain wrong. “You don’t need people’s opinions on a fact,” he said. And then he went on to present one of the most brilliant monologues I’ve yet seen on his show.

This article is from the New Republic.

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