Bill Maher, Rick Santorum Debate Climate Change on ‘Real Time'

It's a constant debate amongst the left and right: climate change. On Friday night's episode of Real Time, host Bill Maher welcomed in Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. And if you don't know, the two have complete opposite opinions on the issue. Maher believes it's the thing we should be talking about, and Santorum, well, disagrees. Regardless, the two decided to get together on the HBO series to hash out their differences.

Actually, they just debated for a bit and then left with their opinions still intact.

Anyway, Maher kicked off the topic explaining that he has two main questions for politicians running for president in 2016: "What are you going to do about climate change, and how are you going to get money out of politics?"

He then admitted that he believes problems will arise because "I don't think you think climate change is a real problem," he said to Santorum. To which the Republican candidate held his opinion, noting that he's not alone with that thought.

"The most recent survey on climate, scientists said about 57% don't agree with the idea that 95% of the change in the climate is caused by CO2," Santorum said.

Maher then questioned which ass the Republican was pulling that statistic from, largely because he believes it to be absolutely false.

The conversation moved to jobs within the climate change debate, to which Maher assured his guest that there are "twice as many jobs in solar as there are in coal now," and accused him of "living in the past."

He then cited the fact that the Pope has come out supporting his stance on climate change.

"So much of religion is arrogance masquerading as humility," Maher said, adding, "he's the Vicar of Christ, your God, shouldn't you have the humility to say, 'Well, if the Pope thinks climate change is a problem, maybe I should?'"

Thoughts?