MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews brought on liberal Bill Nye the Science Guy during Tuesday’s show to lambast the President for tweeting about the liberal rush to promote climate change despite what’s been thought of as a once-in-a-lifetime polar vortex bringing record cold to large swaths of the country.

But the craziest part of the three teases plus seven-minute interview was a question from Matthews about whether the influx of illegal immigrations from Central America has to do with climate change making that part of the world less desirable.

“Up next, America’s denier-in-chief is at it again, tweeting misinformation about climate change that shows he just doesn’t get the science behind our warming planet. He gets it. He’s just selling to the yahoos. Bill Nye the Science Guy responds to President Trump,” Matthews screeched in his second tease.

Showing the liberal media double standard when it comes to pushing climate change after a major hurricane, Matthews abruptly dismissed the 2019 polar vortex and reiterated that the planet is still in dire straits prior to reading the President’s troll-ish tweet (click “expand”):

Right now, millions of Americans across the country are bracing for a once- in-a-generation arctic blast that could bring wind chill temperatures as low as minus 60 degrees. It’s the latest example of extreme weather around the world and last summer ranked as the fourth hottest on record in the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the fourth worst and that factored into the increased drought conditions obviously that led to the most destructive forest fire in California’s history last year, taking the lives of 85 people and there was historic flooding throughout the parts of the country, following major hurricanes like Florence.

Matthews teed up Nye with quotes from three current or former Republican members of Congress dismissing climate change (or global warming — depending on what the left wants to call it) and then asked: “[W]hy do people do this? Why did they come up with this comical excuses to deny the science?”

Nye responded by suggesting that “the fossil fuel industry” is behind it because they have been “introduc[ing] the idea, that doubt, that scientific uncertainty, it’s plus or minus 2 percent is the same as plus or minus 100 percent.”

“In fact, they’ve hired the same people that the cigarette industry hired,” he added.

When it came to convincing Trump supporters, Nye told him that climate change “will add to the cost of food and the other problem is growing in North America, which is the bread basket of the world, even now, the agriculture in North America is going to have to move north into what would nominally be Canada and we don’t have the infrastructure” to make that happen.

Nye fretted that, for those not taking the issue as seriously as him, he ruled that “they’ve been hoodwinked, they’ve been led astray by this group of like-minded people who feel the economic effects of getting away from fossil fuels are going to be catastrophic, but that is just simply not true.”

Towards the end of the interview, Matthews dropped the illegal immigration question, which Nye thankfully swatted down (click “expand”):

MATTHEWS: I see it in Africa, people in these parts of land with the growing Sahara Desert and the Sahel, and there’s no more arable land left, there’s no trees left, and people are moving north into Europe and in our country, in our hemisphere, it’s people from Central and Latin America moving north because how much is climate related to the migration pattern? NYE: Well, that’s not clear about Central America but it is clear about Florida. People are going — you know, there’s two cities. There’s Miami and there’s Miami Beach. People in Miami Beach are quite wealthy and they can afford to have so-called mitigation sea walls and so on., but middle class and lower income in Miami cannot afford to have their cars flooded once a month or wheel wells of their cars flooded once a month and they’re going to move north in Florida. Where are they going, and where are they going to — are they going to abandoned their mortgages? What is the economic effect of that? This is -- it’s far reaching and it — it — I understand it’s very troubling for a lot of us to think a human species, this — just a few people on the earth can somehow change the climate of the entire world but we’re doing it and if you live in the rural area — well, the effect may be less apparent because your neighbors are so far away but it’s happening.

Back on October 10, Matthews used a singular event in Hurricane Michael to make the case for climate change. In other words, one might conclude that Matthews is a hypocrite.

To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on January 29, click “expand.”