With Thursday marking the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion along the northern coast of France known as D-Day, news organizations have been offering special coverage with incredibly powerful, substantive, and fitting tributes to both those lost that day, since then, and those remaining veterans.

But then there’s Wednesday’s Hardball on MSNBC and guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, who compared the need to fight climate change to D-Day.

Host Chris Matthews led into Nye’s lunacy by stating how he was captivated by the recent documentary about Apollo 11 because it correctly reminded him of “how vulnerable we are” because we live on the one habitable planet (that we know of) in a much larger universe and “[i]f something happens to that, we’re all gone.”

Nye responded that “[i]t's not that we’re all going to die in 12 years” if massive climate change legislation is enacted, but rather “we’re not going to be able to move our infrastructure, our seaports, our railroads and so on and move our agriculture away from the equators fast enough to feed everybody as we get to be nine and 10 billion.”

He then dropped the D-Day comparison:

There’s enormous opportunities. You know, I am always optimistic about this because tomorrow is the anniversary of D-Day. And it was, of course, there was tremendous loss and tremendous sacrifice. But it was part of this greater idea that we have a global problem and we’re going to solve it and I — I always respect that. You know, both of my parents were veterans. They’re both at Arlington. And we can do this. It’s the United States And things are changing so we can do this, Chris. Let’s go.

In response, Matthews heaped more praise on Nye as the lefty and former grade school science class icon thanked him for the compliments: “Keep it up. You’re our leader, Bill. Thank you so much. You know you are. Thank you, Bill. And we had to have you on tonight.”

So Nye decided to follow in the footsteps of CNN host Chris Cuomo, who asserted last year that members of the far-left, radical, and violent group Antifa were just like those who fought on D-Day.

Earlier in the segment, Nye implicitly agreed with the notion of there being more “extreme weather events” like tornadoes because of climate change, while Matthews cartoonishly claimed that “you can’t predict” the weather on a day-to-day basis “anymore” because of climate change.

After that nonsense, Matthews’s closing commentary in the final segment was also about D-Day and, while it seemed to start all well and good, he decided to praise none other than Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) for a speech on the Senate floor praising “the alliance of the great democratic countries” involved in D-Day that Matthews “wish[es] our own President understood.”

Nonsense is offered up on a daily basis by figures like Nye and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), but the notion that conservatives don’t show concern for the environment is nonsensical.

Writing back in April for the Washington Examiner's print edition, Josh Siegel reported how Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz and Francis Rooney (FL) have been pushing alternatives to ideas from the far-left. And to add onto that, there are groups like the American Conservation Coalition, which was formed in 2017 to advocate for and educate the public about how “economic and environmental success can go hand in hand.”

To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on June 5, click “expand.”