By James Pero For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:22 BST, 13 May 2019 | Updated: 23:23 BST, 13 May 2019
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In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change.
Bill Nye -- most well-known for his popular 90's educational television show, 'Bill Nye: The Science Guy' -- reprised his iconic character in a cameo on the latest episode of HBO's 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,' to highlight the world's failure to address climate change.
Instead of Nye's characteristic passion for science and learning, however, the commentator and TV personality delivered a different, more adult, kind of impassioned speech.
After instructing viewers to 'put on your safety glasses,' Nye launched into his plea.
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In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change
'By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees. What I'm saying is the planet's on f***ing fire,' said Nye as he set fire to a wooden globe sitting on a disk in front of him.
'There are a lot of things we could do to put it out -- are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots.
'Grow the f**k up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now, and this is an actual crisis, got it? Safety glasses off, motherf***ers.'
Nye proceeds to blow on the globe which is still sizzling as he storms off-camera.
In a separate segment during which Oliver enlisted Nye to help explain carbon pricing -- a proposal to charge emitters of greenhouse gases more for their pollution -- to give one of his signature demonstrations.
'When we release carbon, say, by burning coal or driving an SUV, all of us pay for that in the form of things like fires, floods and crop failures,' said Nye.
'Putting a fee on carbon creates incentives to emit less carbon, and,