"Last night, CNN hosted a series of town halls on climate change, and they hyped it like it was the end of the world — which it is," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "The entire event was apparently broadcast from low orbit — never a comforting sign when the leaders who believe in climate change look like they are fleeing the planet."
"When it was Bernie's turn to take on climate change, he urged Americans to think of the children," Colbert said, mimicking Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) addressing his grandkids at age 143, mostly robotic lion. "Then Sen. Kamala Harris laid down some hard truths," like the inconvenience of paper straws, he said, and former Vice President "Joe Biden also had some stuff to say about climate change — unfortunately, no one heard any of what he said because we were all too distracted by his bleeding left eye. Oh my God, is that what climate change is going to do to us? I'll separate my plastics, I'll drive a Roomba to work, just don't take my eyes!"
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